Yesterday, as I was on my way home from running errands and grocery shopping, I thought my heart was going to stop. There is this wacky couple mile long stretch of road between my last stop and Prescott Valley. So when I exit the parking lot of Costco, I get immediately over into the insideContinue reading “Hare Brains”
Author Archives: Dianne Lehmann
Waiting for the Hot Water
Every morning before dispensing my supplements, I wash my hands. I’ve rubbed our cat’s belly, given the dog a good scratching all over to help her wake up. Maybe I’ve cleaned the litter box. Often, just as I am about to wash my hands, Bernd is ready for our good-bye kiss ritual and wants meContinue reading “Waiting for the Hot Water”
Practical Jokes and the Need to Laugh
Both my parents loved practical jokes. My mother told me that once she sewed shut the flies in all of my dad’s underwear. Apparently, he was not very amused, but she laughed and laughed. My parents played practical jokes on me and my sister when we were still very young and not really able toContinue reading “Practical Jokes and the Need to Laugh”
15 Things I Like
There was a time when banana flavored popsicles were my absolute favorite treat to buy from the ice cream man. He had the worst hands, chapped and cracked and callused from putting them into a cold ice cream truck every day, but he handed out the most wonderful treats. And we were always happy toContinue reading “15 Things I Like”
Things I Have Learned
For the most part, a lot of the things I’ve learned over the years have been the source of a great deal of retrospective chagrin. I also laugh about a lot of them now, but at the time maybe not so much. I’ve compiled a bunch of them for the last chapter in my memoir.Continue reading “Things I Have Learned”
Weird Words, Part 8
Hunky-dory That’s a word you don’t hear very often any more. I’ll call it a word and not a phrase because it is hyphenated. I’m not picking nits. It’s just that I like to make my article titles accurate and relevant to the body of the article. Really. Well, mostly anyway. Now, where was I?Continue reading “Weird Words, Part 8”
Static Pages vs. Posts
I can’t help but notice that the static pages on my blog don’t get much attention. Obviously, a page that is a new post will get the most activity. But to me this says that people in general don’t really navigate a site all that much. I might be an exception to that rule. IfContinue reading “Static Pages vs. Posts”
Beneath Certainty: Some Ramblings about Life in Dianne Land
Beneath certainty lies a very nastily tangled web of doubt. It seems to me that any rational person could not possibly be certain at all times about all things. And therein, as I see it, lays the problem. For me it is a large one. Mostly, I go about my life certain that I amContinue reading “Beneath Certainty: Some Ramblings about Life in Dianne Land”
Inspiration
I’ve written about writer’s block in the past. I might even have said that I don’t really suffer from it. I suppose that might depend on the exact definition you give it. If you define it as an inability to figure out where to go next with the story you are currently working on, thenContinue reading “Inspiration”
The Reader
A few days ago while I was on a walk around the neighborhood with Maddie, we stopped in to talk with one of our neighbors. Maddie is always happy to do this because treats are frequently offered. We got past the usual pleasantries and then he asked me what I had been doing that day.Continue reading “The Reader”
