The next time you're feeling like your mom is the weirdest mom on earth log on to this site and you may discover your mom is pretty normal... well, normal in the sense tha...
**This is a work in progress** Antonia Steele flung open the door of her Mill Valley mansion just as I was about to ring the bell at the back door. "Oh, Thank God you're ...
"Idiot!" muttered my husband as the driver in front of us made a right hand turn from the left lane. I glanced into the backseat to see if the kids were listening. They w...
This nationally syndicated humor column by award-winning writer Jackie Papandrew dives into the laundry basket of life with hysterical tales of everyday insanity. Check o...
My son recently turned 13, and the last traces of that sweet little boy who thought I hung the moon seem to have vanished. In his place is a strange, slouching creature w...
Occasionally, someone who no longer wants to be my friend will forward me one of those annoying emails, the ones that have been sent to every email address on earth and a...
As a professional columnist who writes on matters of pressing national importance that frequently involve food-thieving dogs and sanity-stealing teenagers, I sometimes ha...
I've always thought I should do 10 new things every day, 10 things that were worthwhile, fun, educational, or, well, at least marginally worthwhile anyway. Things like fin...
Last week I was in my second home, the local supermarket, when I heard a very bewildered man asking where he could find whipped cream to go with the bakery pie he had. Th...
Hello!!! And please wipe your feet as you enter... This is very much a new genesis in my creative undertakings... All you could never need may be found here, if only I cou...
People rarely comment on my songs, besides the usual, 'Great Song!!!' feedback... Here is your chance to tell me what you think or feel... You can comment anonymously, or...
This is a 2 year old mice pace post which I am happy to paste for you... I did write it, however... Redundancy Is Getting Old... Today is a fresh day... A chance to weigh...
Living at the crossroads has been both beautiful and rough... The real estate is plentiful, but the cost is one's soul, and every moment is spent paying, albeit paying at...
While reading blogs today, I came across a great link which I have listed here: http://www.wizardofwit.com/Cat_Clips.html You have to check this out--it is SO funny! I li...
I think I have reached an age where I accept things more easily. Either that or two weeks into summer vacation, I've lost my ever-loving mind. You know how when you go in...
Okay, so I've been writing about serious stuff for a bit, let's change to something 'completely different' as Monty Python likes to say. Your First Kiss. I put that in ca...
Today I asked the three girls (Megan, and the two sisters I watch three days a week, Grace and Rose) if they'd like something different for lunch. "Sure!" "How about a pe...
Just when you think you have more than enough friends, you go and join these "social networking" sites. Oh my good lord! I recently joined Facebook and still haven't quit...
Planning a vacation can be stressful business. As Readers Digest says "Laughter is the best Medicine." Here are some items I hope you find humorous, I know I did! ...
There are so many young women who envision the happily ever after as depicted in those beloved Disney fairy tales. Which one did you identify with? Snow White, Cinderella...
1. Staunch 2. Nausea 3. Bush 4. Nudnick 5. Smooch 6. Vagabond ...
I believe I have twisted my neck... It's such a funny image, to twist one's neck, sending me recollections of the possessed girl in the excorcist who could perform a 360 d...
There was a cat who ate up her shoe Then she didn't know what to do So she ate up the house Along with the mouse And out came the shoe in her diddly-do.. ...
There was a cat who ate up her shoe Then she didn't know what to do So she ate up the house Along with the mouse And out came the shoe in her diddly-do.....
Oh to be an Indian in the 21 st century by Shivani Tibrewala, 2007 All rights reserved by the Intellectually Challenged Property Act Pumped by the likes of you and of me ...
Ever since we've discovered the mindless mahjong game on the computer it's been calling to us: "Come plaaaaaay! You know you waaaaaaaannnnnt to!" I had a great idea the o...
I love that episode of Seinfeld when George can't think of a comeback line for "Hey George - the ocean called and they're all out of shrimp...." It's awesome. I don't kno...
Overnight, I lost 40 years of my life. Yesterday, I took part in a 30 minute workout--the latest new craze in our latest new craze part of the world (read northern Califor...
Grandpa was a jolly man And in his way a Peter pan he took from grandma gave me and my pa the rest of the caramel flan ...
Well, here I am giving birth yet again ... I don't see myself particualrly as a Mother Earth type, but oh!...The need to create...a fertile and safe place for ideas rangi...
For A Bit of Hump Day humor-Read: Pre-owned Husband 4 Sale-Spare Tire Included ...
I’ve decided that you can learn everything you need to know about human beings – by swimming with them.. At least I can. For instance you can tell when someone is in ...
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I eat oatmeal every night. Oatmeal and granola, and a pile of cinnamon. And I add fruits-in-season. Here's last night's oatmeal. Isn't it pretty? Fresh blueberries and st...
Seems that on our back porch there's a string art picture of a sailboat that a shirt-tail relation's father made, a long time ago. Tommy knew whose it was and who made it...
Does anyone know? I like cantaloupe, but it tastes like soap to me. Nice soap, sweet soap, but...SOAP. Always has . ...
My name is Sweetie and I'm a cat. I'm 6 years old and I know a lot of important things, like how to type. Typing isn't easy, because my claws get in the way, but sometime...
"Mom, I designed your dream room. Here is the massage, here is a cell phone with every number of every respite worker who is good with autism, here is the margarita maker...
Alright. I'm going to assume here that most of you out there who read these pieces on PNN are writers as well; I think that this is correct. So what I'm going to write ab...