The Nanny Diaries
Having been raised by a yaya (nanny) I had at one time promised myself never to get a yaya for my kids when the time came. This was not because I had a horrible experience with my nanny, on the contrary. My aunt, the one I lived with for most of my childhood life, worked [...]
Furnishing the inner sanctum
One of my dreams is to be able to make enough moolah to give our bedroom an air of romance. Not that we don’t have enough romance going on, but I just think it would be nice to come home to comfortable yet classy bedroom furniture.
The house we live in was built in the late [...]
Where were you when I needed you
I’m going to sing another if-only song, this tme in honor of my oft-unmadeup face, mainly due to the lack of natural acne treatment in my teen-age years when I needed it. Don’t get me wrong, I have tried applying makeup to this tired old face on special occasions in the years past, but I’ve [...]
Learning how to read again
The computer, boon and bane of my middle age, has not only taken away my ability to write legibly, it has also made me forget about adequate lighting. These days, adequate lighting for me is the one that comes on when I hit the Fn and PgUp keys on my office-issue IBM T43.
Along with [...]
Is the mailbox obsolete?
The advent of the Internet and email has completely changed the way we communicate with other people. When before we would have pen pals and engage in stamp collecting (an offshoot of having pen-pals from abroad), today we send email and digital photos over the Internet. Which brings me to the question: Is the mailbox [...]
