Not A Shoe In

March 23, 2010

Our hostess invited us inside with a smile and said, “Please take off your shoes and leave them at the door. We don’t wear shoes inside.” “Crap!” I thought while glaring at my husband. “Why didn’t somebody tell me this so I didn’t wear my ‘Sunday socks’ — the holey ones?” He had been to [...]

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Seek And Ye Shall Find

February 5, 2010

Some of you know that on this blog I only post good things on Friday. By that, I mean “not negative.” As I told you in the beginning if we look for the good, we are likely to find it. Some days it is harder to find good than on others, but it is necessary [...]

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Words From The Sage — Leroy “Satchel” Paige

July 10, 2009

Have y’all ever noticed that “vacations” can be stressful? Lordy, ours is this week — because it’s a working vacation. Mr. Tucker is moving a shed (sideways, with a fence in the way) and I’ve been moving my office (carrying a good 600 pounds of books upstairs). On a break, I started leafing through a [...]

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Prevent A Head Cold?

January 13, 2009

I may have found a way to prevent the common cold … or not. Y’all will just have to try it for yourselves and see if it works for you. I usually spend my winters sneezing and wheezing. I go from one cold to the next one. My time is spent bundled up in the [...]

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Only The Good Friday. Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes

January 2, 2009

In mid-November, I was half-listening to a daytime television show. I don’t remember what show, and I don’t remember the name of the doctor being interviewed. However, she said something that caught my attention. She listed five things to add to your diet that could lower your cholesterol as much as 30%, which is as [...]

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Throw Away Your “Old” Lotions!!

December 13, 2008

She hadn’t seen me in six months. The smile in her eyes died as she glanced down at my hands. Her eyes grew as round as pizza pies, as she took my hands and cradled them in hers. She held them gently, as if they were fragile porcelain art objects. In fact, my hands look [...]

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As Smooth As A Baby’s Bottom

November 29, 2008

A couple of weeks ago, when I washed my hair, I found myself sighing with relief. “At last,” thought I, “I’ve found a hair conditioner that really works!” My hair is thick and wiry, with a texture that sometimes reminds me of a Brillo pad. But, that morning, it felt as smooth as a hank [...]

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Kleenex Stock. Snot A Bad Idea.

November 17, 2008

I tell you what! Did y’all know that if you mix Vick’s Vapo Rub, Hall’s Mentho-lyptus cough drops, and chai tea you get toxic vapors? You dang sure do…and that’s what I’ve been inhaling for several days. Don’t anybody light a match! Being slathered up with Vapo Rub has its advantages: After awhile, I don’t [...]

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Loose Ends

September 20, 2008

I have a bad habit of telling y’all stories, but never following up to give you the ending. To my perpetual surprise, some of you actually care enough to write and ask. You don’t know how that warms the cockles of my heart. So, I thought I’d tie up some of those loose ends this [...]

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My “Cholesterol Fix”

September 16, 2008

I briefly considered becoming a vegetarian this weekend. That resolve lasted almost fifteen minutes. I was thinking about it because the doctor says I need to lower my cholesterol. I figure that it’s time to worry if she looks at the test results and says something like, “How are you alive?” The sad thing is [...]

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Think “Negatively”

September 5, 2008

When I feel stress, I internalize it. That’s part of “the performer” in me. My mother set an example for me by being “stoic,” and I follow her lead. I can tell you right now that if you try to keep stress bottled up inside, it manifests in your body and can be a pain [...]

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What’s A Baseball Player Got To Do With It? Part II

July 29, 2008

Yesterday, I told you that my husband’s Aunt Cleo wrote on the Christmas card this year. She said: “Shelly, I’m sorry I never got to meet you.” What? I read the Christmas letter she had enclosed, and it shook me to my core. My heart went numb. Did I mention that there is a baseball [...]

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What’s A Baseball Player Got To Do With It? Part I

July 28, 2008

Our vacation this year to South Carolina was precipitated by a Christmas letter. It was tucked inside the card from my husband’s favorite aunt. I had never had the opportunity to visit with Eric’s Aunt Cleo except by telephone. I was enchanted by her Southern drawl and her easy laughter. Have you ever talked to [...]

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Walkable Neighborhoods

July 5, 2008

It’s amazing to me that so many of us spend years trying to get to that home in the “Burbs.” We are conditioned to want that lovely, huge house on a tree shaded lot with an expanse of St. Augustine grass in front. It’s the American Dream! Yet living in the suburbs is so impractical. [...]

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Water

June 27, 2008

If I were really smart, I could simplify my life tremendously in one fell swoop by drinking water. Then, my recycle bin wouldn’t be filled with soda cans. That would definitely be good for the environment. According to The Container Recycling Institute, “3% of the world’s electricity goes into making aluminum cans.” The hydroelectric plants [...]

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Old Lotions Smell Like Witch’s Brew

June 16, 2008

I know you are glad this isn’t a “scratch ‘n sniff” blog! While sorting in the bathroom, I came across a box filled with lotions and potions. They were expensive beauty products I had bought (I probably enough on them to run a small country for a year), but they had gotten shoved to the [...]

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Beauty Doesn’t Last Forever, And Neither Does Your Makeup

June 8, 2008

When I was in my twenties, I prided myself on the fact that I didn’t wear makeup. I guess that I was having my belated “Hippie” phase, and I thought I was totally cool because I eschewed such extravagances. When false eyelashes were “in style,” I sneered that they made women look like they had [...]

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Thursday Thirteen Number 41. Questions.

May 29, 2008

I haven’t played the Thursday Thirteen meme in a long time, because I’ve been very pre-occupied and self-absorbed lately. Health issues have plagued me (so to speak). I recently related that I have Hepatitis C antibodies in my blood. Lots of folks have been asking me questions. I’m not an expert, and I haven’t seen [...]

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Confidential To Blood Donor

May 23, 2008

Several months ago I went down to my local blood bank to donate platelets. I was trying to bring attention for the need to be tested to donate bone marrow, so that children like Taten Court could get the marrow they need to survive cancer. My attention was brought to something else entirely. I got [...]

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Yoga to Relieve My Stress? Not for THIS Wimp.

April 19, 2008

Hi. My name is Shelly, and I’m a stress addict. In unison, everyone, “Hi, Shelly.” Yes, folks. I don’t know how it happened. I just had a couple of projects going, and added a couple more. I have deluded myself into thinking that having several things going at a time keeps me interested and focused. [...]

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