StarStruk By Life

Usually, when the news is full of snow and drama and runs on TP, bottled water, ice cream and booze, we here in New England are right smack dab in the middle of it.  Feet of snow, the quiet world it brings, hot drinks, shoveling, fire in the fireplace…totally New England.  Not this time…I am […]

Life has left me feeling as if I’m drowning lately.  I find that I can go a certain length of time managing a somewhat complicated schedule and then WHAM!  There is always so much that needs doing and I am TERRIBLE at making and keeping lists.  My boss is my list role model…she is an […]

Sophie had her “wellness” check today…she turned 6 months on January 21, and we knew it was time to get her in to see the vet.  We had noticed a little swelling in the little valley where her leg joins her belly, but she was still wrestling with her sibs, racing around the house and […]

Yes, I will be the first to admit that I have an addictive personality.  Don’t know if it is related to my ADD, but… Our HD cable service has been acting up for the last couple of days.  I spent time yesterday morning with a Comcast rep, but due to the fact that it was 5am […]

It is mid-January and the inches of moisture that fell from the sky this week were not beautiful, white snow…they were big, heavy RAINDROPS!!!  In January!!!!  The good from that is that the ugly, stained snowbanks that lingered are now flowing down my street…the bad is that really icy patches become even more slippery when slicked over with […]

How many times have we said that getting old sucks, but it is better than the alternative?  We all think that somehow we will escape the ravages of time and the consequences of our day-to-day lives on our minds and bodies.  But it gets us all. I have the best in-laws in the world.  They […]

Political commentary included, read on at your own risk.<G> This has been an AWFUL week.  The pictures and stories coming out of Haiti are stunning, stupefying, heart wrenching.  An already hideously poor country trying to recover from devastation, piles of bodies, amputations without anesthesia, people dying from cuts and scrapes that become infected for want of […]

Brrrrr….We have already hit what is supposed to be our high today….25.7 degrees on a bright, sunshiny day.  We started out the morning at zero degrees…watched hus don a pair of silkies and another pair of long johns over them then pants then layers of tops and neck and head gear and thick socks and his best cold weather boots, all topped by […]

What a year, and it has only just begun… My theater group’s first show of the new year fell onto hard times…Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf is a really HEAVY load for the actors, particularly for Martha and George.  Unfortunately, the challenge proved more than our Georges (yes, we went through a few) could manage and […]