StarStruk By Life

Oh, it was a glorious Saturday and we did very little (which contributed to its gloriousness)…we walked the back forty half acre, checked out the budding fruit trees (lots of buds this year)…no sign of asparagus yet, roses need trimming, bulbs and lilies desperately need raking, all the beds need cleaning…trellises took a hit this […]

A big shoutout and birthday hug to my firstborn child, Silly Tater Tot…she was due on Leap Day, February 29, 1980, but in her inimitably “I know what I want and I know how to get it” style, she dawdled an additional 18 days in utero just so she could always have a built-in birthday […]

Woke up this morning to the sound of bird song and the sight of a brightening blue sky.  After days and days of relentless rain (sometimes windswept and pounding, sometimes light and airy), it looks like the puddles and pools left behind might get some time to sink in…I’m thinking that a lot of my […]

What a week was last week…a cold, the flu, what the heck is this sickness that has grabbed hold of me?  I have already complained in my last couple of blogs about how crummy I feel.  But Friday night, the fevered dreams started…ohmygosh, no fun.  I would wake up dripping wet everywhere, puddles of sweat in […]

I can’t complain too much…this is my first illness this season and this icky bug waited until AFTER The Dixie Swim Club closed Saturday and was struck on Sunday.  By Sunday afternoon, my chest hurt deep down…between then and today, it progressed and morphed…cough and hurting chest, headache, body aches, fever and chills…last night was […]

Ahhhh…I thought I would have at least a few days to get my stuff in order (house is full of piles that need to be dealt with) before moving on to the next order of community theater business…no such luck.  As usually happens, I came down with something the day after the show closed…this time, it […]

I particularly love sunny Saturday mornings when it is still winter…Saturday mornings where my most taxing plans involve getting a new pair of pantyhose for tonight’s closing night of The Dixie Swim Club (I felt my toes go through last night’s pair mid-scene) and cosmo fixings for the cast party.  Of course, there are TONS […]

The sugaring buckets are starting to appear on the sides of maple trees…does that mean the trees have given up on winter and are officially announcing spring? It is really sad when my most concentrated daily exercise comes from running up and down the front stairs of my office (we are on the second floor […]