Recent Comments

1. about 12 hours ago on Baby Blues

   When I was a baby my grandfather – my mother’s father – lived with us. He had cancer. He wanted more than anything to hear me say “Mama” before he died. One day he was watching me while my mom took the older kids swimming at my grandmother’s house. He called: “Therese…come home quick!” I wasn’t the healthiest baby so Mom thought something was wrong. She bundled the kids & raced home. He met her at the door with a brilliant smile: “SHE SAID ‘MAMA’!” I was sitting on the floor pointing up at HIM, saying, “Mama!” (He died one week before my first birthday. It was understood in the family that I was his favorite grandchild.)

2. about 12 hours ago on FoxTrot Classics

   My husband is a loud snorer. When we first got married it bothered me…until I read a letter on Dear Abby. A woman wrote saying that for years her husband’s snoring bothered her…until he died. “Now” she would give anything for the chance to hear it again. Suddenly my husband’s snoring wasn’t that bad. We’ve been married for 38 years and I sleep better hearing it (which I only do 3 nights a week as he’s a 3rd-shifter).

3. 1 day ago on Baby Blues

   I don’t believe in the modern conceit of buying ripped jeans. However, one time my younger daughter ripped a knee of her capris jeans. Someone thought that it was bought that way & complimented her…so I left it.

4. 1 day ago on FoxTrot Classics

   I wish I had thought of that, but 1) we didn’t have an answering machine when I was a teen; 2) the results would have been the same; 3) I shudder to think what kind of messages WOULD have been left (I was a huge bully-target).

5. 1 day ago on For Better or For Worse

   For years every time my family would get together there would be a picture of my dad, my brother, his son, and HIS son. It was always sweet. Sadly, Dad died in 2020. As for me, I only have 1 picture of me with my mom & my daughters. My grandmothers both died long before my girls were born, and my mom died in 2018.

6. 1 day ago on For Better or For Worse

   No offense taken. I just didn’t get the “snerk”.

7. 2 days ago on Rose is Rose

   I would sometimes go to work with my dad on Saturday mornings. I learned how to drive a fork lift at a young age. The boss would “pay” me with whatever I wanted from the vending machines.

8. 2 days ago on For Better or For Worse

   Believe me, you don’t want your grandmother living with you. When I was a teenager we had BOTH grandmothers living with us. They didn’t like each other and I was their rope in their attention tug-of-war. What’s worse is that I had to share my room with one of them.

9. 2 days ago on For Better or For Worse

   I don’t get it.

10. 3 days ago on Baby Blues

    My girls are coming home from college in about a week & a half; soon after, my husband is going to make his wonderful spaghetti. I’m looking forward to it, as are the girls.