I am thinking of starting a dessert bakery. What should it have in it? I am interested in your ideas.

I'm trying to reason why some of my brothers and sisters want to buy the house my mother spent the last few years of her life living in. It's kind of a dorky house, AND it smells a little funky when all the doors are closed. If you use the room with the toilet and washing machine, you have to go through two doors to get to the sink to wash your ( Read more... )

Cookie. Fuzzy. Mom. 2011.

Is it true that deaths come in threes? Have we finished, then?

 Northwestern Montana in the winter smells like a giant bonfire. Sometimes I am upwind of the smoke and sometimes down. I cannot hear the crackle or see the bright orange sparks fly from the logs, but I sense it everywhere ( Read more... )

There is  a ferociously large fly in my house and a group of remarkably large turkey-looking round birds waddling around a corner of the back lawn pecking at whatever ground junk food they have found. One of the birds is white. Does it know?

My mother is dying. She is not exaggerating this time. My mother, the one who rises early to disinfect the Sistine Chapel and the worldwide headquarters of all religious sects; the one who  hurries home to make lunch for the state of wherever she is.... is dying ( Read more... )

I have hung pictures in our house!!!!! Break-through! This is the longest I have lived in one place for about 10 or 12 years I think ( Read more... )

Today we gave away 1,326 grand slams between 6am  and 2pm. The line wrapped around the building for most of the day ( Read more... )

TWO LITTLE GIRLS
MY LITTLE GIRLS
MORE  DELICIOUS 
FAR MORE SURPRISING 
THAN  A  LUMINOUSLY GREEN TREE FROG 
SITTING PEACEFULLY ON A BRIGHT BRASS DOOR KNOB 

 The lights are on!!! Terry came home tonight and flipped the switch on the new service to his workshop. He is as giddy as a fourth grader with  a new pack of firecrackers!
   The full moon has competition from the lights on Addison...