Author: leilani

Today I surpassed nerd, surpassed geek, and created a category unto itself, methinks. Has anyone else ever, in the course of an otherwise nondescript day, had a random, seldom-used word pop into their head and stay there?  Even a word one had to look up to know what it meant?  Because that’s how the title…

For perhaps the first time evah in my life I’ve made enough money to qualify for a house.  An actual, real house, one with walls, roof and doors, in a decent part of town. Now part of that miracle is sadly due to a massive housing collapse.  Houses that were going for $200K and up…

Our canine Houdini was plunked on his haunches just a few paces away from the door, his butt planted patiently in my regular parking space, waiting for me.

I shoulda known it.  Brag about getting off easy with a cold and it is guaranteed to come back and bite you in the ass. Consider my ass bitten. Gnawed on, even, for good measure. Obviously I’m still very much alive and scuffling along.  In fact, the snifflies are on their way out, though I’m…

Well okay, this isn’t exactly Bel Aire, and my granddaughter isn’t a rapper.  She is in fact a very soft-spoken, polite to extremes, adorable six-year-old.  G snapped a few bazillion photos of her, of which (hopefully) a few will be making their way to my blog in the near future.  She went home this afternoon,…