~Tuesday~ At the beginning of this month, my friend Hugh Hollowell posted a video on Facebook called, 23 and 1/2 hours: What is the single best thing we can do for our health? If you haven’t seen that very compelling 9-minute video already, go ahead and watch it. I’ll wait. Can’t make the investment right … Read more
~Monday~ “My day was very good,” I said as I stood alone, or so I thought. “What made it very good, as opposed to just plain good?” asked a nearby person who heard me as she was walking by. “Well, one thing was that I enjoyed today’s word from the A Word A Day website,” … Read more
~Friday~ I had my annual eye appointment yesterday, and as expected, my eyesight has deteriorated slightly—all within the normal parameters of someone “aging”—but the “health” of my eyes was “fantastic,” according to Dr. Beautiful. The technician who took pictures of my retinas didn’t do a good job and after the doctor saw them, he ordered … Read more
~Thursday~ Earlier in the week, my wonderful friend Myra invited me to join her and her husband to see this show now playing at the Raleigh Little Theater: By Sarah Ruhl. Co-produced with the Actors Comedy Lab. Gaddy-Goodwin Teaching Theatre January 20 – February 5, 2012 In a quiet cafe a cell phone rings. And … Read more
~Tuesday~ Tonight I staffed the Manbites Dog Theater (MDT) table in the Durham Performing Arts Center (DPAC), before the Broadway play Memphis started at 7:30. I had a sign-up sheet to get on MDT’s e-mail list, which I usually encouraged people visiting the table with, “And don’t worry, we promise not to spam you. Actually, … Read more
~Monday~ My friend Jen and I usually meet on a Sunday or Monday night to watch Glee together. However, we usually like to stay two or three episodes behind, and tonight we found ourselves caught up to the penultimate one, so we watched a movie instead. Jen owns this movie, and she has seen it … Read more
~Monday~ I’m just back from the credit union, where I dumped that plastic bowl of change into the coin counter. There were a lot of quarters and dimes in it! Who knew I was driving around with that much change in my car?!? And not to mention the hit to gas mileage it probably had. … Read more
~Saturday~ I had an appointment for 1:00 today at Carmax, where I bought my previous two cars, and I went with two vehicles in mind to test drive. I was pretty certain I wanted to buy a car today, so much so that I took everything out of my car before heading over there, so … Read more
~Friday~ This actually happened earlier in the week, but I’m only now capturing it, because I wanted to scan in the document (below) with a scanner as opposed to just taking a picture of it with my phone, and it’s a little bit of an inconvenience to use my scanner. My friend, Jen, dropped into … Read more
~Tuesday~ There are so many things wrong with my car right now, it’s both annoying and discouraging: From left to right, top to bottom: My brake light has been for probably a year now. I’ve had the brakes checked twice, and both times they’ve said there’s nothing wrong with them. The brakes aren’t worn and … Read more