At a Chamber of Commerce breakfast this morning a person mentioned to me that they see me on TV all the time. What? Really? Yes, really ( Read more... )

When I was a teen-ager in Vermont I got tapped for some state-wide committee work as a teen representative.  (I read Title IX grant applications and voted on which projects to approve.)  I was also in a Young Republican club and got the equivalent of lots of baby-kissing, things like being taken to lunch by Jack Kemp, wooed by Bob Dole, you know, ( Read more... )

15 years ago this week-end we had a tag sale.  I remember that, because unfortunately it was that memorable ( Read more... )

I was going through my new office building today with a telecomm guy.  He explained that I didn't want phones from the phone company (silly me) that I wanted them through my cable provider.  That way I could unplug the phone and carry it with me to whatever office I'm in, whether I'm in my home office or I'm in my island cottage... my business line ( Read more... )

I finished the 5th episode while I Nordic-tracked this morning.  I've never combined weeping with aerobic exercise before.

froggoddess, do NOT watch Season 3 this winter.  Wait until next summer.  Seriously.  I mean it.

ETA: oscarmama would find it interesting, though, just so long as you've had your trigger warning.

One of the things that came out of my market research lunches is that several people said I have to get out there more.  I volunteer in the community, but in really low-key ways; I cook and serve food anonymously at a soup kitchen, I volunteer somewhat anonymously in the home of a few elderly poor people, and I volunteer on a town committee that ( Read more... )

Someone asked me this today.  It was a preface to discussing a car commercial.  "You know that car commercial where..." and I looked puzzled so she stopped and said, "Do you watch TV?"  I was unable to answer this.  I think I do.  But apparently I don't.  For one thing, I hadn't seen that commercial.

Here's what I watch.

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We have a guest teacher for the holidays leading our "Group Power" class.  She's from Germany and she teaches a "Body Pump" class there.  I've wondered if they are the same thing.  After doing two classes with her, yes, very nearly.  Or, as they say in Germany, "das gleiche in grün".  It's been fun having her sternly push us in German.  I've been ( Read more... )

In the late seventies there was a hippie movement to go "back to the land" that landed me on a mountaintop in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont.  My mother and step-father decided to build a subsistence-level homestead and I got pulled along for the ride - and to be cheap goat-tending labor.  I have many stories and lessons from those days, but this ( Read more... )

My husband has to travel for work next week.  ( and I'll be ALONE for the first time in 11.5 years. )