Midlife Musings, Midriff Expansion (weight gain), Chronicles of Midlife Coming of Age and a few other things
Well, we did it. My sister Peggy and I saw to the successful swearing in of Barack Hussein Obama as the 44th president of the United States. We operated from our outpost in Elkhorn, Wisconsin located in various rooms of Peggy’s home on Jerome Court. We were fully staffed thanks to Peggy’s husband, John [...]
The Midriff Muse heads south in her musemobile once again to her sister Peggy’s house, in order to hang together for some of the Inaugural activities. We are hoping this will also include some time with niece, Jackie and grand nieces Makenna and Lila and perhaps another sister or two.
We are also packing a ball [...]
Okay, I am going to be expounding on the topic of hair again. The fact is that my midriff and my body hair are my two biggest growth industries, so they provide a lot of material. What follows here was written as an addendum to the “Exceeding Hairline” piece. And since I have previously connected [...]
December Harvest
This past June (which now seems eons away) I was awarded my choice of a free 4” container plant along with my grocery purchase at Waukesha’s natural and whole foods store “Good Harvest”. I chose a tomato plant over a flowering plant. I fully intended that this would be the year that I would [...]
A week ago last Monday, I went in for my semi-annual, get – it – done – really – good – by – a – professional, hair coloring (I bet you thought I was going to say something like mammogram or colonoscopy didn’t you?) My stylist had a new assistant observing that day, a [...]
With a nod to Keith Olbermann (The Nexus of Politics and Terror), I am going to publish another piece from my book here. I wrote it sometime after the 2004 presidential election, but well before the announcement of Barack Obama’s campaign for the presidency in 2008. The writing is primarily about facial hair growth, but [...]