A day late and a dollar short, but I’m still here.
Mother's Day 2020; Quarantine-Style.
Good bye Diet Pepsi As many people know, I have been drinking diet pop for as long as I can remember. For the past fifteen years, I have seldom been…
In this day and age, it is rare that I see any of the spam emails that come through my Inbox. These new finagled Junk Mail filters have greatly improved…
Ugh. So, this is 2020? I spend a fair amount (read: half) of my life driving my people from place to place, mediating arguments and pulling over to allow any…
Now, I don’t like to brag (kind of lying to you, right out of the gate here ??♀️), but I’m almost positive that last summer I was a too-cool, quasi-popular,…
Julia Winepress Phillips, born on this day in Dundee, Scotland, 1913. My grandma would have turned 106 years-old today. I spent every weekend from the age of two until twelve…
The final week of a four-week-long grocery budget challenge. The update and wrap up.
Last week, I posted this grocery budget challenge for the month of May. You can read that post here. If you want to skip the preamble, scroll down for the…
A month-long challenge to drag the family's grocery budget back down to earth after a period of overspending.
To set the scene, you're at the doctor with a complaint. They diagnose the problem and your first reaction is relief (that you're not crazy and it's an actual 'thing')…