The Backward Life

My grandfather passed away last night. Grandpa Brown was my mother's dad. He was an intelligent, artistic, loving and kind man. Of ...

"Let's get rich and give everybody nice sweaters and teach them how to dance. Let's get rich and build our house on a mount...

I’m a runner. Not an actual runner. A remedial runner. More like the class below the remedial class runner. Does that still count? Let’s j...

I've wanted a KitchenAid stand mixer for a long time, but I can never get myself to spend the money. Last month, the hand mixer I got f...

I was looking at my Feedjit on my blog to see who had visited and read it lately.  From there I found a link to the most popular blogs of pe...

Packing is like childbirth. You forget how awful it is until you have to do it again. You get so excited about moving into a bigger pla...

We watch a lot of TV. Our viewing habits are better now that we don't have cable or satellite. We used to troll the hundreds of channels...

I am recovering from surgery and flew my mom from California to help out for a week. The entire time she kept saying how useless she felt. O...

I have a broken uterus. Yes, you read that right. It is defective, and has been referred to (by medical professionals) as uncooperative, ...

When I told anyone here in North Idaho that we were going to Southern California for Christmas they all said some variation of, "You ar...