Over the years, I have watched my neighbors embark on home improvement projects in the weeks leading up to the holidays, putting in landscape lighting, painting walls, recovering chairs. Last weekend I was serenaded by the sound of the neighbors power-washing their driveway. Read the full story
In normal years, our family Thanksgiving dinners are small. It’s usually just me and my husband, our two kids and my husband’s parents.
It’s been a year since we moved into our new house, and to celebrate our first anniversary, I am going to make toast.
ME: Remember a year ago, when I started huffing and puffing whenever I walked uphill?
I have been working from home for almost eight months now, and my entire perspective has shifted. For instance, office politics now consist of me and my husband jockeying for space at the dining table that we are both using as our home workspace. I am happy to report that I am currently winn…
A few weeks ago, I spotted an empty hook hanging from a corner of the roof. “Hmmm,” said I. “That looks like just the place for a wind chime.”
Things you should not touch when you get into a car in Alabama in the middle of summer: the steering wheel, the seat belt buckle, the bottle of boiling hot hand sanitizer.
For the past 21 years, I have mostly managed to avoid work meetings. Every now and then I would show up for staff training or sit in on a brainstorming session, but meetings never took up much of my work day.
Me: Google, I need some different ideas for a birthday cake.
Get your pencils ready, because it’s time for another pop culture news quiz!
ME: I really need a haircut.
How to turn a carpet remnant into a rug in 38 easy steps:
Like many people who have been stuck at home, I’ve become a novice birdwatcher. Some of the birds I see are easy to identify, like the wild turkey that wandered into the yard, or the two vultures that decided to perch on my back deck one day. (Let me say that again: There were VULTURES. On m…
I haven’t had a bath since this pandemic started.
I’m having an identity crisis. I’m not who people think I am.
I think I have found my favorite place in the new house: at the kitchen table, fresh cup of coffee, looking out the window at the front yard and its stretch of flower beds.
I’m going to need something new to watch soon. It’s a good thing all these new video streaming services are coming on board.
It was another big week in weird news. Take this handy quiz to see if you’ve been paying attention. (Answers are down there at the bottom).
I don’t do yard work. It’s not my thing. I’m bad at it. I’m allergic to sweat. I wilt in the heat. In any division of duties, I have always taken the inside job.
Let’s see who’s been paying attention to the outside world this week. Take our handy news quiz to see how well you’ve been keeping up.
Four months ago, if you told me I needed to “flatten the curve,” I would have thought you were referring to my hips.
My world got a little bit brighter the first time I ordered groceries via Instacart. Somebody else would do my shopping for me? Is this how the 1% live?
I am a little disappointed in whomever was in charge of naming this virus. COVID-19 sounds like it’s one of the 22 cables coming out of the back of my TV.
This will not be my first messed-up Easter.
Oh so NOW the CDC tells me I should wear a mask if I’m going out in public. I don’t have a mask. Y’all done bought up all the masks.
On this week’s episode of Real (Boring) Housewife of Calhoun County …
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