Daily Life

Approximately 30% of my laundry gets hung on clotheslines for various reasons. I want my socks and underwears to last longer, and I have a lot of clothes that I don’t want to shrink, because I am, as I like to tell my kids, “the tallest woman in the world.” Now that we are in…

This morning, as I read the Sunday paper, I almost forgot to look at the Parade magazine, which was buried in between the store ads that I try to avoid. I’m glad I sought out the weekly insert today, because it contained the inspirational story of Stephanie Nielson, a mother of four who was severely burned, along…

So, when we were in Arizona visiting our daughter, I asked Husband Jim to turn the water off in the laundry room. Yesterday, when I went to do some laundry, I turned the knobs back the other way and threw a load in. The washer started up, and then several minutes later stopped, giving me…

I’ve been culling paper from the files in my house. The amount of stuff I’ve shoved into files for years is ridiculous. Anyhow, in my adventure I found the following piece by the late humorist, Erma Bombeck. I watched her recite it on TV back in the 1980s when my kids were too young to…

I found a great article in the February 1, 2009 issue of Bottom Line Personal. “Bulletproof Your Job and Ride Out the Rough Times at Work” is written by Stephen Viscusi. Here are the highlights: