I live in a relatively small town in Florida’s most densely populated county.
Dunedin comes from the Gaelic name: Dùn Èideann, thus named by its Scottish settlers. It’s the Gaelic name for Edinburgh, their hometown in Scotland. It’s commonly mispronounced as a two syllable word: Dune-din (the first like the dunes of a beach, the second like the first syllable of the word dinner…
I could take this title in a lot of different directions, but I don’t think you saw this one coming. Or maybe you did. My readers tend to be the thoughtful type.
Don’t you dare laugh.
The good, church going folks among you might think I’m talking about sin, but I’m not… not in the Biblical sense anyway.
No, my transgressions only hurt one person: myself. I’ve…
What can I say? Both my kids continue their run of academic stardom. It feels like a source of (partial) absolution for my personal failings, seeing my DNA has some value.
Beth continues to excel, outpacing all the other kids in her class. I just wish it brought her peace. While it was an asset when she was the oldest kid last year (her small school has mixed grade classrooms), there’s a…
Common sense struck fourteen hours too late today.
You should know this already, but if not, take this opportunity to learn from others’ mistakes.
How did I become an other? Oh woe is me! Am I the mother of all others?
If there’s any chance a doctor’s appointment may cause worry, for God’s sake people, take the morning appointment!
How it fits into your work schedule should…
I was mentally prepared for my doctor’s appointment on Friday. By prepared I mean it was sufficiently far off in the future I hadn’t thought about it.
His office called me this afternoon, asking if they could bump it up to tomorrow.
No, I’m not ready.
“Yeah, that’ll be fine. I’ll see you tomorrow afternoon.”
Ugh.
So tomorrow it is. Another date with my…
I elected to stay home from work today, but I find myself around the corner at a coffee shop. It’s nine-thirty a.m., do you know where you realtor is? Actually, mine’s off the hook this morning – someone else was supposed to be showing the house.
But I’m sitting here, monitoring my email, waiting for that message that’s supposed to come when someone has activated the…
The house is getting its first showing this morning, and I feel like a thirty-nine year old man going out on his first date.
We got an email from our realtor yesterday evening saying he’d received a query from another realtor, asking to show the house this morning at 9 a.m.
No problem, right? A nibble from someone this soon, in this market, is something.
Oh, did I mention it’s the…
Last week I did a light workout. I’m not a newcomer when it comes to working out, so I’m pretty in tune with my body’s limits. When I’m starting up after a long period of sloth, I take those already low limits and move the decimal point over one place to the left.
At this point we’re basically talking five pound hand weights or the bar.
Did I mention I start out…