“I have waited so long for my ship to come in, finally now that it has, I hope my pier doesn’t collapse!” –My dad.     My childhood was noisy. There were four of us kids first of all, and secondly, my dad was a loud, boisterous, emotional man. When he was home, which wasn’t [...]

Ali at Pickle Sugar Plum won the Corner Bakery card!   Go Ali, go Ali, go Ali, go, go!   I can’t help the lame things I say sometimes. It’s an affliction I have. Weirdness. My teachers said I’d outgrow it.   Well here I am teachers of yore! Forty-plus and still flush with the [...]

The healthy eating post went well! I’m happy to report that I’ve followed many of your suggestions in the last few days and feel…sick as a mangy dog. But I’m sure that will pass, so to speak. It’s probably just toxins being released into my system for elimination. In the next few days, I will [...]

The Rock helped me out with this one. Tired and spent last night, I couldn’t put a PROMPT together for nothing. So my husband got on Ffffound and procured several images to inspire my thinking. I am including most of the pictures here. This week, I’d like if you were to pick one and write [...]

This is Episode #2 from Mama Mary’s Crock Pot Talk. I will never get over the fact that I look like a diphead on camera. Still, the pot roast turned out “delicious-ish.”

Back when I was thinner and concerned about things like double chins and large butts, I used to mentally calculate the calorie count of everything I ate. In my mid-20s, I even went through a “candy corn dinner” phase, where I’d eat handfuls of the stuff because it was fat-free. No meat and potatoes, just [...]

This stream of consciousness brought to you by sugar and a teaspoon of Tylenol for kids.   **********************************   Mom? Would you still love me if I killed someone?   I would NOT be happy that you killed someone, but I would still love you.   What if I killed a devil?   Well……   [...]

  Like last year’s Christmas stuff on the guest bed, so too are the days of my life.   I really want my blog back. And my life. I’m spinning so fast right now that I can’t keep up with anything. How do you moms do it? Is it just me?   If you’d allow [...]

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!   {Deep cleansing breath, deep cleansing breath.}   I’ve missed you.   {More breaths. More breaths.}   Very busy.   {Breathing…breathing…}   WHERE THE CACKALACKY IS MY BROWN PAPER BAG?   {Gasping, gasping.}   Good Golly Miss Molly Almighty in Heaven Above with the Infant Baby Jesus.   {Re-evaluating priorities. Re-evaluating priorities.}   Work [...]

This is a wonderful post on how and why.

Today? Teach us something. How do you flirt? Make a smoothie? Achieve balance in your life?   Step-by-step instructions please.   Thank you.   Please post your submission in the comments OR post in your blog and leave a link to your blog in the comments.   First time to PROMPTuesday? Read a bit about [...]

{{{A week late}}}   I saw her first. She fidgeted in the coffee line and continually checked her reflection in the display case. A pair of black bike shorts barely cupped her buttocks, revealing far more than just tanned and toned legs. A sports bra worn as a top, white waffle socks, and black high-tops [...]

Nice of me to check in, isn’t it? Truth is, I’ve been paralyzed writing-wise. There’s been so much I want to write, but am over-thinking due to people I know now read this blog. There’s so many to please! Or at least not piss off. The one friend over here hates when I self deprecate, [...]

Let’s return to bare bones this week, what do you say?   I was given this exercise in a college writing class, and I clearly remember observing an older man who was eating alone. During my 15-minute study, I absorbed his every move and translated it to my writing. The way he carried the tray [...]

  Many days I forget her crooked smile, how she loved Jeopardy, her potato soup. Unless I’m prepared, I get either upset or downright angry if I have to think about her and me. The way we were together, or more often, apart. Our arguments are legend, still. Truth is, my memories are like an [...]

Do you do this too? Assemble a mental list of things you absolutely need to have in order to be 1) More interesting 2) Less zitty 3) Younger 4) Hipper 5) More enlightened 6) Skinnier; and last and sometimes least 7) Healthier?   I’d say the my personal list compiles at the rate of one [...]

Thank goodness for this blog. For days, I couldn’t remember what I did last New Year’s Eve, and through the miracle of archivedom, I discovered that on Dec. 31, 2008, I fell asleep at 9PM and didn’t give up the booty. THIS year, I fell asleep at 11PM.   Again, I managed to keep my [...]