OK, raise your hand (or paw) if you’ve ever gotten an email that starts out like this: Have a great day! I assume this letter will come for the correct address and you will receive it. It is Natalia. I am 29 y.o. I have healthy lives. This is how Natalia started her email to… Continue reading Boomer writes advice to Spammer
40 kids, 5 of us, 1 bus
From the Archives of Yesteryear when I volunteered to climb on a bus and chaperone a herd of elementary students, one of which was mine, on a field trip to California. I’m happy to report that the Oceanography Club field trip to San Diego was a howling success. Forty pumped-up students, five untested chaperones. One… Continue reading 40 kids, 5 of us, 1 bus
In the ring with a Realtor
“I will take or make an effort to remove your name and your phone number and your existence from any of my correspondence.” Game. Set. Match. This was the text that signaled my long national nightmare was over. Finally, I was going to be taken off the mailing list of the pesky Realtor who had… Continue reading In the ring with a Realtor
Halloween Fail
Halloween was last night and, despite a month of hype with Wal Mart selling every costume known to man and every candy ever created, we got not one trick-or-treater. Zero. Nada. The doorbell never rang, the dogs never barked, and I watched Helen Mirren reenact the story of when Queen Elizabeth dragged her feet in… Continue reading Halloween Fail
Chaperone Shopping: Stay Sane, Stay Solvent
(From the Archives of Yesteryear, when my daughter and I were younger and only one of us had a driver’s license.) I have no idea how my daughter survived before the Town of Gilbert got SanTan Village mall, but I can tell you that I’m barely surviving now. We live by Greenfield Road which, if… Continue reading Chaperone Shopping: Stay Sane, Stay Solvent
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