Author: Aimee

How a beginning reader and a weirdo adult communicate.

On the way home from dinner tonight, we passed the Fox TV station.Declan: F-O-X. That spells fox! That must be a toy store. They sell toy foxes there.Bryan: Very good reading! But that actually is a TV station. The Fox News station.Declan: No, it's not.…

Happy Birthday to Uncle Bill & Jeff!

Yes, yet again - two people I adore share a birthday.This time, the celebratory wishes go out to, first, Uncle Bill! Bill is a smart, generous - and if you aren't careful - he'll catch you with his wicked sense of humor. We eventually had…

"I don’t want to mess up our friendship."

Yes, I was that girl in high school. The friend. At the time I actually thought I was a fat, ugly pig... but as I look back at my high school pic compared the the Beautiful People... I must have been wearing Teen-Colored Glasses. Meaning,…

Great Quote

"We're giving a shout out to Mel Gibson for our next song. Not for any reason in particular. But maybe if I claimed I was drunk on stage when I made my comments a few years ago [about George W. Bush], people might not have…

Faux Camping

We were doomed from the start. The sky was spitting on us. The campground was pretty much just a parking lot of RVs with a few trees thrown in for grins. We only had 1 package of hot dogs for 6 people. After dark, the…

Meeting of the (Feline) Minds

I'd love to insert that whistling show-down theme from The Good, The Bad & The Ugly but I can't (be bothered to go find it on the Internet). Note the silver cat outside our window. That's Mercury from down the street. He's obviously become so…