It was so cold this morning I let Lucky Dawg out all by herself to visit her great outdoor master bathroom. I rushed to the thermostat to turn up the heat and discovered it was 52 degrees in my house!

I was determined not to use the gas central heat until it was absolutely necessary. Today it was necessary.

Anyway, when I got back to the door, Lucky Dawg was no where to be seen. She has never, ever, left our yard and I panicked. I went running (more…)

“Sue” Beth and Ruth Ann play a new travel game called ‘Redneck Girls.’

My girl friends and I have found a new way to amuse ourselves and the general public at the same time.

We discovered this innocent past-time several months ago while on a trip to visit a high school chum in Austin, Texas. Here we were, an odd-wad collection of baby booming buddies, trying to hang onto our youth - and just young enough to remember how we once did it. (more…)

Mr. friend Jane sent me some fudge recipes which got me started on a trip down memory lane.

When I was a teenager, my friend Linda and I would get together on rainy afternoons when her mother was away to make fudge. We would, of course, eat the entire recipe and I’d go home sick as a dog. My parents finally had to make me stop going to her house - thought it might contain high levels of carbon monoxide or something.

One afternoon our boyfriends were coming over and we decided to make a batch and lace it with Elmer’s Glue. They gobbled it up and never said a word. We laughed (more…)

My friend Marsha sent me a note this morning suggesting that we organize a Deluded Diva group similar to the Red Hatters or Sweet Potato Queens.

She wrote: “I am absolutely POSITIVE that you are not the only deluded diva around; my guess is that there are millions. Here’s a whole new project for you– you could be the first of the “Deluded Divas” movement. No longer Purple Hats and Sweet Potato Queens. Now it’s the ‘Deluded Divas.’ Sounds interesting to me.” (The lady pictured above is a candidate for our Woman of the Year.) (more…)

I received a cute note from a reader today which was hugely enlightening. Here’s how it went:

“After reading your yesterday’s column, I decided that you need a couple of “sayings” that have been on my refrigerator for years:

NEAT TRICK

She bought a book to organize,

To change her messy way;

But first she has to find the book

That she misplaced today.

“One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.”

And, by the way, I have the following if you ever need some reading material:

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