My Field Days

I have these earrings.  I’ve had lots of pairs over the years.  The other day I was laughing about some of them that have long since been given away… and how I’d like to have them back. I don’t wear earrings very often.  I used to wear them all the time.  It all began in [...]

They’re over there with their friends. There!  Is that so hard? I know we all make mistakes.  Yes, yes, we’ve all made a few.  Sometimes we’re in a hurry, and we get this all wrong.  But, seriously folks… and especially you youngsters… let’s work on this. Once upon a time I jokingly corrected a relative’s [...]

I don’t care what you say… I love this color! It’s always good to get inspiration.  I’m all for that.  Actually, I’ve just been to the International Builders’ Show for this very reason.  But I’m going to take a few moments here to encourage individualism and creativity. As builders, we regularly get asked what the [...]

I have issues with people.  I know this of myself.  It’s such a clinical way of saying that I’ve had it up to here with people.  Sounds so mature, doesn’t it.  Ha! Well, I do.  I have issues with people who won’t clean up their own disastrous messes in a bathroom.  I have issues with [...]

Just days before our election, I watched “The Lady”, the story of Aung San Suu Kyi and the struggle for democracy in Burma.  No!  Struggle is a pusilanimous word for this situation.  It’s the heartbreaking, misery-filled, incredibly intense tale of a nation longing for the kind of freedom I experience in America. While people are [...]

I loved Ann Romney’s speech at the GOP Convention.  The following day, I pulled it up on YouTube to enjoy again.  Not shocked, and yet shocked to the core actually, I saw a few comments so filled with hate and venom that I couldn’t shake them from my mind. I took them personally because I [...]

Seriously!  I’ve just about had it with phone calls and e-mails!  I quote the lovely Audrey Hepburn.  “I don’t want to be alone.  I want to be left alone.” I would say, “You can’t believe the crud that was in my inbox today”… but I’m pretty sure you can.  And I’m pretty sure your phone [...]

The other me sometimes wishes she had a blog.  It wouldn’t be dedicated to simple pleasures.  It would be the place to rant and rave.  Yes, yes… I do have a category set aside for that very purpose.  But this kind of ranting wouldn’t get the rose-colored-shades treatment. The other me would write about how [...]

The notion of spring cleaning definitely has taken hold of me.  I’ve gone through my closets trying to downsize, and I’ve made a little progress. The deal is… I’m not really a collector.  (Okay, okay… the coffee cups… but they all have a story.)  I’m not going to be weeding out photos or family heirlooms.  [...]

You know the moment I’m talking about.  When the orchestra is playing or the choir is singing, they come to the end of a movement, the conductor holds the baton in the air, the audience holds its collective breath, and just as it’s time for the music to continue into the next movement, some poor [...]