Category Archives: LIfestyle

How the Whole Donny Thing Came About: It’s a Long Post, but Worth Taking the Time to Read!!

thirty years ago today

  When I was about nine years old I developed a huge crush on Donny Osmond. I soon learned that he was a Mormon. As a Catholic living in New Jersey, I didn’t even know other religions existed, so the concept of Mormon meant nothing to me. I soon learned that it meant he didn’t drink or smoke. As the… Read more »

The House is Painted, The Grout is Clean, The Orange and Palm Trees Sway

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The last time we bought paint to paint the inside of our house I had the guy at Home Depot print off an extra label of the color formula so I could keep it in my wallet and buy a gallon if I ever needed one for touch-ups. Needless to say, we were beyond SHOCKED when we went back two… Read more »

Martha, Martha, Martha!

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Does she have to set EVERY trend? I had her show on today just as background noise while I finished rearranging my stamping office. I laughed out loud when I heard her say in her authorative “I know everything” voice: “You know, SALT is the new SUGAR.” What??? Well, if Martha said it, it must be true. Next time you’re… Read more »

Smell Memories

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We were sitting in sacrament meeting and Adrienne put her arm around me. I suddenly blurted out in a whisper “I smell Canal Street.” She then held her wrist up to my nose. She was wearing one of the perfumes I bought on Canal Street a few years ago. So now whenever I miss New York I can just grab… Read more »

Gray Hair

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It’s time for me to make a standing hair appointment with Kim. Why? Because now the gray is really going to show. Why? Because Adrienne started driving!!!!!!!!!!!!! It can’t be true! She was just born yesterday! But hey, after giving it some thought, gray hair isn’t all that bad. Don’t you agree???!!!!