I am still writing about memorable stories A-Z in my going-on-15 years here at the Democrat-Herald. I kind of got stuck because the only good ‘N’ story that comes to mind is one I wrote in December 1999, and I can no longer find the original.
Very interesting, this being-broke stuff. I’ve found out I’ve got one stiff neck and a pretty nasty attitude. Heaven help my family for the remainder of this 40-plus day Lenten commitment.
What I’ve been up to lately, in just seven easy installments.
What the Princesses plan to do with their grown-up years.
Yipe! How did today get to be Shrove Tuesday already? I have to start Lent tomorrow and I haven’t prepped for my commitment yet!
I decided this year I’d take a page from coworker Amanda Robbins’ playbook and spend the next 40 days away from all forms of plastic money. No debit card, no credit card, [...]
So CNN had an interesting article on what song, by sheer number of weeks at the top of the Billboard charts, ranks the sexiest. Ready?
“Physical,” Olivia Newton John.
This moment of shocked silence, followed by howls of outrage, is brought to you by yours truly. Not Marvin Gaye? Barry White? The Stones? It’s … Miss Legwarmer?
The [...]
– Half my face is numb from my morning visit to the dentist, which not only makes me sound like Bill Cosby (”Your what?” “Fabuss! Mahbuh fabuss! Efbuh aybuh ceebuh eebuh!”) but leaves me no ideas about lunch. It’s 11:47 and I’m starting to get hungry, but I don’t want to chew, drool, have anything [...]
If clueless males need Hallmark to mark an essentially random date on the calendar with a big red heart and lay on the guilt trips just to get said males to deliver the flowers, then I say God bless ‘em.
I was a huge fan of the old sci-fi series “Babylon 5.” One of my assignments today reminds me of one of the episodes, in which the representatives from various worlds on the space station are invited to present something that represents their religious culture. The commander, Jeffrey Sinclair, of Earth, has no idea what [...]
Someday, I’m going to find the person who invented the whole “jinx” thing and I’m going to make her sit in the back seat of my car, between the Princesses, until she apologizes and promises to pay for their college educations, preferably at institutes strong in linguistics.
