Worse than being ‘Ma’amed’ at the grocery store, is when you’re buying fancy dog food at the neighborhood feed store, and the guy behind the counter says, “Your last name sounds familiar. Did you have any kids that went to (the local community college)”. My KIDS? Excuse me? Wait a minute, my Grandma was a Grandma at my age. A young grandma, but still….I’m officially OLD.

We have a semi-tradition, which is that once a year, we go to San Francisco to see “A Christmas Carol” at the American Conservatory Theater. It’s a nice tradition, gets us in the mood for Christmas, and sometimes there’s even ice cream involved. Well, with one thing and another, we didn’t go this year. So, should it be a year without theater for us? I hope not. Ted did a spot on the radio the other day for the Reduced Shakespeare Company, which is in our humble town for the month of February. I’m hoping we can go…I’d like to see The Complete History of America (abridged). Could be pretty…

Back when I was about 21 years old, living in Stockton, I had a little red VW bug that I named “Jelly”.  Jelly, by the way, was my nickname in High School for about 15 minutes when my best friend turned from another girl, Kelly, to say something to me, Julie, and it came out, “Jelly”.  Thankfully, it didn’t stick.  But anyway, it did stick for my car.  Jelly was a great little car, Candy Apple Red, with a home installed rag top.  She was a 1966, the same age as me (I was born the last day of ’65, but they make the ’66 cars in ’65 mostly, right?),…

Local folks, if you’re interested, let us know. :)  Deliveries March 22nd or soon thereafter. No pressure. 😉

OK, this is my new pet peeve. The thing that pisses me off. The BUGGER. Stupid Planned Obsolescence. I HATE when a product is introduced, knowing that in a few years, it will be yesterday’s news, and no one will bother anymore, because it won’t work with the new technology. My first experience with this, I think, was when my mom bought a Betamax. We didn’t have any kind of VCR device, and she went to Consumer Reports to find out which was the best on the market (Having learned her lesson from her Pontiac Sunbird, which was the worst year of the whole line, and ended up being a…

Thinking about my first husband, David Bowie, yesterday, started me thinking of his albums, etc, which led me to Cat People, which then, of course, led to cats themselves. I grew up with cats, though because Ted has HORRID, life threatening allergies to them, we can’t have any now. That’s OK, our dog is pretty groovy herself, and no allergies in the canine department. Thinking about cats, I started thinking about one of my pet peeves, which is people who let their cats run around outside. Here are my issues with outdoor cats: I don’t want cat poop in my back yard. If I did, I’d get a cat. I…

When we went to Portland this summer, my stepmom, Julie, gave me a copy of this book, Cool Yoga Tricks, by Miriam Austin.  When the book was written, they decided they wanted to take the photos in Portland, and since Julie has an awesome Iyengar studio there, the author contacted her, and Julie and my sister, Maya, posed for a lot of the pictures in the book.  Cool, huh? Anyway, I was thumbing through recently, looking for pictures of Maya and Julie (funny to have Maya and Julie that aren’t me and my daughter, Maya), and I saw this page, on curing headaches.  Supposedly, it helps with all kinds of…