I’m not going to detail this ride after waiting this long to write, but I thought I’d briefly hit some highlights. Going into knee surgery, my biggest stressor was worrying about Dad – both getting him out of the house on time and him having to cope alone for a week. That also included whether [...]

The longer I’m home, the less interesting the stories of the past couple weeks seem to me. Maybe it’s like having a baby (that’s what they always say, right?) in that once the immediate pain is past you’re so happy with the results you forget about all the rest. Or not. I feel like healing [...]

I made cupcakes to take into the nursing home for St. Patrick’s Day – chocolate sour cream cupcakes from the Cake Mix Doctor with mint cream cheese frosting, tinted green, and decorated with green M&Ms. The frosting, in particular, was really, really good. I learned a lot from this. More later. I thought I would [...]

“I do think New Year’s resolutions can’t technically be expected to begin on New Year’s Day, don’t you? Since, because it’s an extension of New Year’s Eve, smokers are already on a smoking roll and cannot be expected to stop abruptly on the stroke of midnight with so much nicotine in the system. Also dieting [...]