New Addition

Leo's been here now for nearly 3 weeks. We've changed the water in his 20 gallon aquarium twice, scrubbing the faux "sunning" rock that adheres by suckers (can you call it sunning when it's under a 60 watt light bulb?), as well as scrubbing the Fluval 2 filter. I'm already...

Winter Weeding AKA Purge to Socialization

I am in dead-of-winter-purge-the-extra-crap-out-of-my-life mode. And so I finally attacked a large dusty box of papers needing my attention (easier than the emotional crap that also needs weeding) -- would they live another season tucked in a file cabinet or go the way of the recycling fairies? And as I...

Out With Old In With New…sssshhhhh

As the year wanes we purge out the old -- decaying Christmas Trees, piles of collected trash, etc. -- in hopes that the new year will bring us health, happiness, hopefulness and good cheer. When ringing it in, don't forget that, like Independence Day Celebrations, loud noises of good cheer...