As it turns out, others who are also feeling dazed by the untimely demise of the UnTurkey have decided to take an “open source” approach to life after the UnTurkey. And I have to admit that they are speaking to my pain when they say:
“… for some of us, the UnTurkey has become a holiday tradition, and you just don’t f**k with people’s holiday traditions.”
Just when I was trying to really get into the holiday spirit this year too. Sigh.
As is more and more common, I come from a family with a complex web of relationships. Growing up I only met my half-brother Burrell once, on a trip South with my dad. The next time I saw him was with my half-sister, Vicki, on the day of Dad’s funeral last year. The weekend of…
I discovered the fun of having an audio player on my blog when I wanted to share my latest Christmas music find. Today it felt like time to remove the Christmas music from my main page, but I wanted to continue the fun of sharing music so I searched for something else to share. I…
Whooo hooo!!! ::horns blowing:: The much anticipated day has arrived and I feel… pretty much the same. But I’m sure tons of wisdom is just going to smack into me any second now or maybe while I’m sleeping. Look out forty-somethings here I come 🙂
After extricating myself from living with the woman who turned out to be addicted to crystal meth, I transitioned into what I thought was a better living arrangement. I moved into the home of a sweet old lady that lived closer to the temp job I had in Costa Mesa. It was a short bike…
For a number of reasons I don’t have much in the way of family heirlooms. My parents’ families never had very many material possessions to pass on. My mother’s family left Sweden with nothing when they booked their passage to the U.S. and then had hard lives in New England. In my mother’s lifetime that…
Neil and I have been using Palm PDAs for years now since buying our first – the Tungsten T. When we discovered the Palm DualDate software program, we soon realized that it was a great tool for marriage harmony. It was simple. I could send my calendar to his Palm to be viewed on a…