I'm Just Saying

Not satisfied with his two completed marathons, my fella Paul dropped a bombshell casually during breakfast.

Okay, let’s see what happened this week:

The senate changed hands, US Weekly reports that Bruce Jenner is now free to live as a woman and...

Human beings just landed a probe on a comet.

This new frozen yoghurt place up the road is going to be the death of me.

This past Monday night, Oct. 27, taking back roads home from Greenville, South Carolina, what did I see in the window of a modest brick ranch out the passenger side window?

A Christmas tree.

Y’all: a six-footer, festooned with lights and doing its best to create a cozy ambience as the day’s Indian Summer ebbed into the mid 70s.

I tend to be hyperaware when synchronicity occurs. But even if these events seem meaningful, and I’m quite sure they must be meaningful, generally I can’t figure out why.

It sits staring down at me from the top of the refrigerator, smug in its power, attractive in its red and black, Scottish plaid, container:

The most enormous tin of Walker’s ‘Premium Short Bread Collection,’ pure butter cookies you’ve ever seen.

Oh, the mistake of cracking our bedroom’s french doors, leading to a back deck, for the cats to go in and out!

My eldest brother is currently traveling through England to visit and document my mother’s side of the family. It’s been an interesting trip, via emailed photographs, of familial homes both impressive and modest, from Devon, the original homestead, now in ruins, all the way to Northumberland and South Shields.