Thanksgiving
People for which I am thankful1. My parents. My parents have been married to each other for almost 48 years. They provided me with a fun, stable, and happy childhood, and modeled for me how to have a happy, successful marriage. They are fun, funny, hard working, persevering, and a great team. My parents are the best parents are in the world. And they are even better at being grandparents than they are at being parents!2. My brother. My dad is in a wheelchair and my mother had back surgery 3 months ago. My brother, David, dropped everything and moved in with them to help take care of them. He is kind, patient, caring and compassionate. And he is a great uncle. And he is a co

A message for Democrats and Republicans
To President Obama and all 535 voting members of the Legislature,   It is now official you are ALL corrupt morons:  The U.S. Post Service was established in 1775.  You have had 234 years to get it right and it is brok

Tuesday Teaser
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: Grab your current read Open to a random page Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!) Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the bo

Chocolate Chip Bundt Cake
Make this cake and your family will praise you at the gates. They will rejoice at your feet. They will declare their undying love. They will spontaneously do chores. Okay, I'm lying about the chores part, but it really is a fantastic cake. The recipe was at the end of a book I just finished reading called The God Cookie by Geoffrey Woods. The recipe calls for a dark chocolate cake mix, but I used a fudge flavored one. My darling husband has no love for the dark chocolate. I also used 1 1/2 tubes of cookie dough. Of course, I had small people stealing raw cookie dough from. You may not encounter a problem such as this.Audra's World-Famous Chocolate Chip Bundt Cake

Sunday Salon Feeling Under the Weather Edition
I have bronchitis this week so my reading has had its ups and downs. Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel by Audrey Niffenegger Not sure how I feel about this one. It's by the same author that brought us The Time Traveler's Wife, which I greatly enjoyed. Her Fearful Symmetry was just odd. It was about ghosts and twins and twins who become ghosts and ghosts who become