“The day that I have to wear electronic clothing to stay warm is the day I stay home,” I said to my husband about six months ago. We had endured some cold NFL football games and a few other events over the last couple of years, the kind of painful…
Keep Your Seat Belt Fastened At All Times
There is a phenomenon that occurs occasionally when I am in a car during the day. If I close my eyes for a bit then open them, I am sometimes startled that I cannot properly see. Is the windshield dirty? Do my eyes just need to adjust? I will blink…
A Monumentally Neglected Founding Father
While this monument can be found in Washington, DC, it honors a different George. George Mason was an American Founding Father and Virginia statesman. He wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights, an inspiration for Thomas Jefferson as he prepared the Declaration of Independence. According to the National Park Service, Mason…
Showing Piper The Snowing
Some people don’t like the snow, yet most would agree that the first snowfall of the year has a touch of magic in every flake. My husband and I were away when the inaugural batch arrived at home. Piper’s wonderful sitter thought to take Piper out to our sunroom facing…
Christmas Vacation
Having had an artificial tree for most of my entire adult life (click here for Oh, Christmas Tree, Oh, Mister Rain), live Christmas trees are not on my radar. The few years that I did have a real tree when I first moved out of my parents’ house, I purchased…
Bridge Over The River Wife
Watching my husband of three decades walk across the pedestrian-only (at this particular time) Roberto Clemente Bridge in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania could cause any number of emotions, all contingent on current status. If I am feeling particularly fond of my road trip partner, Hurry back. If we are in the midst…
Among The Wrapping Papers And The Bows There Are Highs And There Are Lows
The holiday season has a way of magnifying things, joy feels, well, more joyous, and sorrow (you know what’s coming), more sorrowful. Wrapping gifts one afternoon, I was faced with both sides of the ornament. First, while finishing up two gifts for a girlfriend, I could not find the Scotch…
An American And Eleven Presidents Are Painted Into A Mural
Mama Ayesha Abraham was born in Jerusalem in the late 1800s. Coming to the United States and Washington, DC in the late 1940s, she was hired as a cook for the Syrian Embassy. After her stint there, as well as working at several DC restaurants, she opened her first eatery…
Piper’s Bath Is Intercepted
I bought a Funko figure of Blitz, the Seahawks’ mascot, for Piper, although I had an offsides feeling it would result in a too-many-birds-in-the-house penalty and I would be ejected from the game.
Such A Fine Sight To See – Part 8
I once again have led my long-suffering husband to new treasures along the highways and byways of this great country. I never tell the poor man where we are going, I navigate us to the address, telling him to be on the lookout for anything “unusual.” Mister Rain is not…