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My short list of all-time favorite television shows include The West Wing and Sesame Street. There are many shows I like a lot and...

Big Hugs to All Y'all

If the world-wide pandemic doesn't get you, the unsurvivable storm surge will. At some point you start to feel like everything in the...

At a loss

Last year at Christmastime, my husband said to me that he thought, given how volatile the President can be, and the coming year being an...

Mirror, Mirror, on the wall...

Did I fall for a cosmetic's online marketing campaign? Why, yes, yes I did. I honestly try not to click on those facebook makeup videos...

Let's eat Grandma!

Today was a tale of a missing comma that wrecked all sorts of havoc. We do a charity golf tournament for United Way every October. This...

What're You Reading?

Lest you think I'm wasting away in front of the television, I wanted to let you know that I am also voraciously reading in 2020. I picked...

What're You Watching?

It seems like now more than ever small talk is all about what we're watching on TV. I mean, we can't go anywhere, or do anything, so it's...

Name game

You might have noticed I changed the name of my page. And now I'm going to tell you how that happened. To start we have to go back to...

My Space

Way back in February, I posted that we were tearing out the side deck ~ along with all the hardships not having a back door has afforded...

Sing Out, Louise!

I have a friend from high school called Bill who decided that Stanley Tucci isn't the only one who can make a rocking cocktail video and...

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I grew up in Mississippi, lived in Memphis for 25 years, then moved to New Orleans in 2012 when my husband and I became emptynesters.

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