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New Year’s Resolutions: Boon or Bust
All of us have bad habits, some badder than others.
Such as the people who break Commandments,Ten Commandments like ‘Thou shalt not murder… covet… or steal…”
According to a cutely credible pop culture book, ‘Everything Bad is Good for You’ by Steve Johnson, there is good news about some bad habits, though none of the ten. You’re going to hell if you commit one, let alone serialize them. Guaranteed.
Women are from Venus; Men are from Mars
Lights out at 7:35.
No, this is not a description of our Baby Boomer bedtime.
It became an example of Venus and Mars. The book, not the album by Wings.
Look me in the eye
What I said in my outside voice: “Hi, good to see you again.”eyelid
What I said inside my head: “Look me in the eye, not the lids”, as the woman, an acquaintance I hadn’t seen in some time, scrutinized the space between my brows and irises…my eyelids. Sort of like I was draped like a Muslim woman, that was all of my face she would see.
Living Life as a Miracle with Innocent Blush
What would you name your favorite flush? Royal?royal flush
Our household’s new favorite flush is ‘Innocent Blush’, the color of the new toilet in our entry hall powder room.
There are many funny, awkward jokes embedded in that labeling of a discontinued toilet. Did the company decide that innocence was lost in a bathroom or that blushing and flushing didn’t jibe? Or???
BUCKET LIST
“Bucket List”… If I hear or read that term one more time, I’m gonna implode.
I’ll kick a bucket, onto somebody’s head like one of the situations of “Because a Little Bug Said Kachoo!”, the ‘butterfly effect’ written with nonsensical wit by Dr. Seuss.
Yes, a crass little bug sneezing rather than a butterfly flapping its wings, flowing as one with the breeze.
Hemingway’s Bar
Hemingway’s Bar. I recall the joy, the rapture I felt at first discovery and sat on a stool at Hemingway’s Bar in Paris. It was long before I set my intention to write a book, yet I succumbed to the immediate allure, the pretension of sitting in his place. Heady stuff, the generalized thrill of adventure that I seek.
Until we began to note Hemingway’s Bar scattered about Europe, on the par of “George Washington slept here” on the eastern seaboard, the colonial heart of the US.
Living Life as a Miracle: Business Class
A couple of years ago we had the great (great-great-great) good fortune to fly ultra-luxuriously on >>>Air Emirates
Business Class from LAX through Dubai to Africa and back. It was sublimely awesome in every way, not the least of which was that we had time to sleep – with a perfectly-sized plump/firm mattress laid atop the fully-reclined seat. Oooh – spoil me, do!
The Physics of Christmas
Bursts of logic grace me from time-to-time. Blondes can handle logic, donchaknow! With holiday shopping complete and cards are their way via USPS, I had a few idle moments to contemplate today. I trolled our calendar, scoped the bookshelves, and the refrig.
In all of this bounce-about-the-house, a couple of thoughts knit together, one of them hitting me hard: of the past ninety days, we’ve traveled 1/3 of them.
And that me to thinking about Santa, who circumnavigates the globe: 25,000 miles overnight to deliver Christmas gifts – now that is traveling, albeit not away from home for long!
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What’s in your wallet, er, stash? Here are some of the items stashed in our house:
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