When Practical Jokes Turn … on Me
Every morning my obnoxious alarm goes off. Blinded by daylight, I slap it a couple of times and stumble to the kitchen. I stand in front of the open refrigerator door, drink milk straight from the...
View ArticleWhere Are My Jeans?!!?
I couldn’t find my jeans. I was in a hurry since I had a “meeting” and waited till the last minute to get ready. Story of my life. I raced to the laundry room, maybe my jeans were in there. My son was...
View ArticleComing Out of the Closet
Instead of writing, I’m writing a blog post about cleaning out the closet in my office. First thing, the closet is filled with empty containers. No wonder I don’t have room for anything in here. I...
View ArticleThe Haunting
I hate it when I’m working late at night. All’s quiet and dark, when my cursor starts moving across the screen like the pointer on a Ouija Board. It scares the crap out of me. I’m like, “Grandma?”
View ArticleWeaving Magic
When I was a kid, I had an idea that all worlds were a combination of science and magic. My idea was that magical teams were dispatched to worlds where the magic was out of balance. Only family...
View ArticleKids Say the Darnedest Things – Foreign Edition
I was with my sister and nephew on a beach in Spain. It wasn’t a nudist beach, but apparently sometimes stuff just happens. My nephew had just come to tell me, “Jesus walked on that water. I vomited...
View ArticleErotica and Peanuts Don’t Mix
Picture it, a dark, smoke filled bar. I hiked myself up on a black leather stool. The bartender slid a glass of soda water with lime in front of me. (I gave up alcohol two weeks ago and can’t for the...
View ArticleMeeting Games
I have been known to nod off in long meetings in which the topic has little to nothing to do with me. I’ve invented a game to stay awake, the one line game. Here’s a few from yesterday: I new insanity...
View ArticlePoisoned and Lived to Tell the Tale
(The picture is unrelated, I just liked it.) I was poisoned (and lived to tell the tale). I can’t help saying the last phrase, they just go together. I thought if you were poisoned and you died. But...
View ArticleNecromancer’s Nightmare
Writing Challenge – Somehow I lost several days of the writing challenge emails. I’m short a couple of day and then I didn’t like today’s challenge which was to write a letter of encouragement to the...
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