Lunch

I have a relatively minor but important indulgence:  I eat lunch out almost every day.  It’s ironic that the importance of Lunch Out escalates during Orthodox fasting periods, when we’re supposed to be saving money for almsgiving, but there it is:  I find other places to cut back so I can give alms, but Lunch [...]

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Post-a-Day: We Got the POWER!

The wild weather patterns of the past few years continue, and we have been hit with our first major snowstorm — in October.  October, 28-29, to be exact.  Complete with blizzard-like conditions, winds howling between 30 and 60 mph, and, in this part of the world, the inevitable power outtages. We are blessed, my husband [...]

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Post-a-Day: Home Sweet Home

Comments left on one of my earlier posts have led me to a point I’ve been trying to get to for a few months now:  “Describe the town where you grew up.” Makes me think a little of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, which was about a small New Hampshire town — ironic, when you consider [...]

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PostAday: Oh Please

Today’s topic:  ”How do you stay entertained when you are snowed in?”  To which I, living in New England, can only respond, “Oh, please.” I personally have so much handwork that I practically pray for snow days — though, having survived one winter (I think it was ’08-’09, or it might have been the year [...]

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Retirement: One Year Later

It only recently occurred to me that it’s been one year now since my husband retired, an event I was not looking forward to.  I’m not the first woman who has at least thought, if not said, “I married him for better or for worse, but not for lunch” — although actually, at one point [...]

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Phone Follies

I have met the enemy, and he is the phone company. Ever since Far Point Fair Point took over local telephone service, I have been an unhappy camper.  There was something so reassuring about names like New England Telephone and NYNEX (New York/New England Xchange).  I wasn’t overly thrilled with “Verizon” — a silly name [...]

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Opposites Attract

I was browsing through old posts today, with an eye towards deleting some that were a little too personal — do banks still ask for your mother’s maiden name as a password to your account? — and reading them, I could see how people could guess I was from New York anyway:  They read just [...]

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I Am a New Yorker

A priest’s wife I know who is from New York — Sheepshead Bay, I think — sent me this.  Says it all. I am a New Yorker I do not live in the five boroughs or on the Island or Upstate I may live hundreds or thousands of miles away Or I may live just [...]

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From the “Real Simple Daily Thought”:

“A happy marriage is a long conversation that always seems too short.” ― Andre Maurois I can’t possibly add to that.   

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Flaky White Stuff

No, you’re not seeing spots before your eyes.  WordPress announced that it had added a new wrinkle to Appearances — you can make it snow on your blog, if you seriously want snow.  After the last two years of getting dumped on in October, and spending the next six months combatting Flaky White Stuff, you’d [...]

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