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Clutter Room, Anyone?

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Like most people who are NOT neatniks, stuff lays about my house in an untidy mess. There’s even a name for this type of stuff, it’s called clutter. I was looking at a magazine of house plans one day and there was the perfect solution: a clutter room. The ten-foot by ten-foot room was tucked into the house like an interior storage shed. A room designed strictly for clutter held tremendous appeal for me, because I figured having a clutter room would mean the rest of my house was uncluttered. As in neat. Tidy. I studied the architect’s plan, delighting in the fact someone had designed a room to hide clutter. The architect had placed the room near the entry from the garage. Ah ha! I wasn’t the only one who realized clutter trails into the house from the car, concealed in all sorts of packaging. I wrestled with whether or not I could renovate a bedroom into a clutter room. Then a tiny flaw in the concept hit me. How would the clutter get to the clutter room? Would I have to take the clutte
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Paul Newman is More Than Organic Salad Dressing

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You know you’re getting old when your physical therapist only recognizes the name Paul Newman because of salad dressing. It all started when I said one of my favorite movies was Princess Bride. My PT not only recognized the movie, she loved it, too. Then I said, “William Goldman was such an amazing screenwriter. Did you know he wrote Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid, too?” She looked at me blankly She had no idea what movie I  meant. To clarify I added, “you know, the one with Paul Newman.” Another blank look. Paul Newman’s name rang no bells. I tried to clarify, "you know, the actor with the beautiful blue eyes.” Not a flicker of recognition.  I got a brainstorm."Have you ever heard of Newman's Own organic salad dressing?”  Bingo! Her face lit up. It sort of depressed me.  She didn’t know he starred in over 50 movies. She didn’t know about the legendary Newman-Woodward romance and subsequent 50 year marriage. The sadness of his wife’s Alzheimer’s disease that stole he
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Package Delivered? Uh Oh.

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So Amazon alerts me my order has been delivered. I go to the porch, but I can’t find it anywhere. In case there’s a glitch in the system, I wait and check for the next two days. I know, I’m an optimist and held out hope the package would arrived. But, no package. Amazon still says the package had been delivered. I go online and follow the directions for a missing order. I’m told to email the company who sent the package. Which I did. Very nicely, too. No reply. Along with the advice to email the company, Amazon suggests I search around the front porch area. If that doesn’t turn up the package, they suggested I check with my neighbors. Right, go door to door asking my neighbors if they got my package by mistake. If they did get the package, they’d had two days to let me know. I didn’t go door to door asking my neighbors. I mean I pay Amazon every year to deliver stuff to my door. I do not join Prime so I can run around the neighborhood asking if someone got my order by mistake.
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Who Knew MAGA Voters Were Fentanyl Addicts?

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A candidate for office in Ohio (you’ll recognize the political party any second) has come up with an interesting accusation: he claims President Joseph Biden is trying to kill off MAGA voters. How, you ask? Well, according to this guy, the dastardly deed is being achieved due to the current border policies whereby Mexican drug lords send their minions into the country with truck loads of fentanyl. These minions drive their trucks into the heartland of the USA and sell fentanyl to unsuspecting MAGA voters. These voters take the fentanyl and die! The candidate claims :“If you wanted to kill a bunch of MAGA voters in the middle of the heartland, how better than to target them and their kids with this deadly fentanyl?” Yikes. I’m sure the MAGA voters in other parts of the USA are heaving a sigh of relief, happy to hear only Midwestern MAGA voters are being targeted. I think this dude is trying to enflame MAGA voter support with the implication that if he were in Washington, D.C., h
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Did You Have Your Glass of Raw Sewage, er, Water Today?

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If you haven’t heard of raw water, it’s pretty much what you think it is. Untreated, unfiltered, unsterilized water. Those who drink it collect it from springs or they pay for bottles of water someone says they collected from “natural” sources. Those on the raw water train believe raw water is healthier than water from the tap or bottled water. This is the same raw water that provided 19th century Americans with the average life span of 40 years. Treated water, on the other hand, has given 21st century Americans an average life span of 75 years. Lately I’ve been feelings as if I fell into a Charles Dickens novel. It’s as if all the great medical advances we’ve made against diseases has gone down the drain–where a lot of the causes of those diseases live. People, especially those living in more modern countries, have access to all sorts of medical miracles that have prolonged their lives. Why, they even get to keep all their teeth these days. But for many of them, it’s as if some f
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Tippy Toes: A Tale of Stiletto Heels

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I have a much younger friend who loves shoes and has Lord only knows how many pairs. Since she’s young and fashionable, she latched onto stiletto heels–the ones invented in the 1950s that women get tricked into wearing every other generation. I can’t figure out why anyone would want to spend the day walking on their tippy toes, but women all over the world have decided it’s a great idea. Fashion has sort of left me in the dust as the old age clock keeps ticking and comfort becomes more important. If it weren’t for television, I wouldn’t even know about guys like Manolo Blahnik, Christian Louboutin, or Jimmy Choo who make those expensive, high high heels for women . Funny enough, if you check out photos of those men, you won’t find any of them tippy toeing around in high high heels. Their feet are encased in comfortable, handmade shoes bought with all the profit they’ve made off of maiming women’s feet. Since they’re all older gents, I doubt they wear those heels even when at home alo
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Killing Folks With Disinformation

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Who would have ever thought an American political party would use biological warfare to kill off its own citizens? Yep. I’m talking about the Republican leaders. Biological warfare? Tish tosh. Don’t be silly. Those Republican politicians and pundits are just telling it like it is. That we have a right not to wear a mask. That all those infectious disease doctors don’t know a thing. This virus is just like the flu. Well, let’s look at the definition of biological warfare: It uses microorganisms as weapons. And what are microorganisms? Hmmmmm, microscopic viruses, fungi, or bacteria. The key word here being microscopic–tiny, little, bitty organisms that can’t be seen with the naked eye. Which is why they went undiscovered until the microscope was invented in the 1600s. You may think calling it biological warfare is extreme, but what other label fits the politicians and pundits who advocate letting a killer virus rampage through the country? The USA is approaching 1,000,000 de
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