Archive for October, 2006

Before the interview, take a look at the blurb for Jamie’s book, The Matchmaker.
YOU CAN RUN FROM YOUR PAST
The dead always have a story to tell. All he has to do is wait for the truth to be revealed to him. The living trust him with their grief – and their dirty little secrets. Only [...]

We can’t get rid of strep around here.  Stay away if you’re smart. 
It all started with a friendly letter from preschool stating “someone” in Jake’s class had strep and to be on the lookout for it in my kids.
Sure enough, Jake got it, then Beth and I.  This better be the end of it, because [...]

It’s happening right here in little old Oakmont, PA.
I’m just assuming chipmunks and squirrels qualify as rodents…I don’t mean to mis-define them.
But they’re going stark raving mad. 
I suppose all the scrambling is related to winter coming.
They’re literally tackling each other in their frantic quest for acorns and materials to line their nests.  Seriously I saw [...]

…We might be.
We live in Oakmont where most homes are situated in what I think of as the “main section.”  In the main section, the streets are numbered or named after States for the most part.  They range in age from over 140 years old to brand new (just a few in that category) and [...]

All of you who make fun of the men in the world who treat the process of grilling hamburgers as though they’re fishing around in someone’s brain removing tumors should recognize how close the two processes just might be.  
Not that I’m a brain surgeon, but yesterday I tried to grill hamburgers.  Let me say I’ve [...]