Class reunion or a root canal? Your choice . . . numbing agents optional.

Forty years ago I graduated from high school with about 106 other folks. Most of us never correspond. The few that do keep in touch with me are people I knew before, at our old school in Noel before we consolidated two years before graduating, going to the much larger McDonald County High School. I have few fond memories of that place, sorry. It was large, cold and lonely.

OK, Kids – fasten your seatbelts. It’s time for my annual New Year’s Predictions for 2009!!!

I’ve been posting predictions for years, but now that I have a blog, I can put them here. I don’t have a track record, and I don’t pretend to be some seer who can peer into the future. I am, however, good at reading people (because of my jobs as a teacher and salesperson) and [...]

Brendon Meets Santa

His proud  mama said he didn’t even cry. Looks happy to me! And he is growing up too fast. Darn! Isn’t he cute?

Brendon Leland Short is Christened

My grandson Brendon was christened on Saturday, Dec. 20, 2008, at St. Canera’s Catholic Church in Neosho, Mo.

Happy Yule, Y’all!

The pagan ritual of Yule begins at the Solstice, with a Yule Log being brought into the house and allowed to burn for 12 days. I don’t think this would work for us, because we don’t have a fireplace that would allow anything to burn that long without turning it to cinders.

The time has come, the pundits said, to talk of many things – the economy, web bot predictions, and whether our consciousness has wings??

Meanwhile, other pundits are saying it is only going to get worse before it gets better.
And I’m thinking, I should probably pay off all my credit cards as soon as possible and start hoarding cash. But then I think, “Will cash be worth anything when this is all over?”

Fighting the Scrooge Reflex

The true meaning of Christmas? Is it presents? Is it giving? Or receiving? It is enough to make us all feel like Ebenezer Scrooge, especially when the economy is dire. But we must resist the reflex.
I saw a sign the other day that said “Jesus is the reason for the season,” and it got me [...]

Separated at Birth?

Martha is gorgeous. She should be on TV.

I was watching TV and saw Judge Marilyn Milian of the People’s Court. I was amazed. This was my sister Martha!!!! Look at this yourself and see.

Take my Santa Poll!

Welcome to my first blog post!

Housebound, fighting a virus and hoping it warms up soon!