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Category Archives: Satire
How to Survive Your Spouse’s HighSchool Reunion or “I’m Ready For My Close-Up, Mr. DeMille”
Hey! Let’s go on a book tour…and add relatives, and people we haven’t seen or kept track of in years and years. Won’t that be fun? First Stop: A Texas High School Reunion. (Go Eagles!!) Now, I’m sure many of you have … Continue reading
Ending the Summer with Weird
Here’s another thing you’ll have to explain to me… Hair has become the new art medium. I understood why Tom Hanks used his hair to weave a rope in The Castaway , but why…. Are people using their hair to … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Choices, Enough, Humor, Life, Satire
Tagged artists using hair, hair scupltures, Hiar, really strange, Save your hair, Too much time on your hands, wearing hair, wierd
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Change Your Mood With the Right Shoes
There is a gumpy little saying cruising the internet. It’s all over facebook, adorned with rainbows or kittens. To be a rebel, I’m attaching my saddle oxfords to it…or I would if I had any. First…the saying. If you are … Continue reading
Posted in A Laugh, Appreciation, Cats/Dogs, Change, Choices, Enough, Hope, Humor, Life, Satire, Smiles, Worries
Tagged Change, Forgiving Yourself, Happy Childhood, Memes, Saddle Oxfords, Shoes, The future, The Past, The right attitude, Worry
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How to Survive Your Husband’s Retirement
Okay…feel free to use the subject of this post to explain my long blog absence. AND…Through hair-pulling trial and error, I’ve eked out a few helpful tidbits for others navigating this road. The following tips may help you muddle through … Continue reading
Posted in A Laugh, Change, Humor, Life, Satire
Tagged Bonanza, Change, cleaning house, Dallas Cowboys, garage sales, Humor, selective listening, Stages of Life, Survive Your Husband's retirement, To Do Lists
Car-B-Que
You know how I love change, (cough, cough). The Exhaust Burger Dinner will change every busy man or woman’s life. And just in time for that office-party-gift-exchange you must participate in or else be branded the proverbial “doglog” in the … Continue reading
Posted in A Laugh, Change, Cooking, Humor, Satire
Tagged Change, cooking burgers, dinner time, dual tail pipes, exhaust fumes, Grilling, Shopping, time managment, traffic jams
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Another Foot of Leg
Fall brings out my tiny shopping gene, but it never ends well. I peruse the mail-order catalogs and dog-ear pages before I go shopping. I don’t want to waste too much time in those stores which are like buffets of … Continue reading
Posted in A Laugh, Change, Humor, Satire
Tagged Change, clothes that fit, Humor, Julia Roberts, long legs, Looking good, mail order catalogs, Shopping, Zooey Deschanel
64 Comments
Dealing With Difficult People: Part 2–The Kit
While “Change” is an unsettling kick in the keister…we all agree…some people need to change. After making the controversial…“Dealing with Difficult People” post, my staff sifted through the genius of the comments. We tested each one and as a service … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Humor, Life, Satire, Smiles
Tagged Bad meetings, Change, Dealing with Difficult People, Face to Face, Humor, Stares
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Now We Have to Worry About Fake Friends
“Let”s have coffee sometime and catch up.” “Yeah. We should do that.” And as my friend and I walk away, we both know, it’ll never happen. We just did all the “catching up” we wanted to do in the grocery … Continue reading →