Author: leilani

How many of my readers grew up with game shows? Show of hands…? Yup, me too. My mother’s holy grail every night, after dinner, was Jeopardy. I think she was secretly in love with Alex Trebek. But Wheel of Fortune came in a close second, with all of us making wild guesses from those intermittent…

This week has been an odd one in a lot of respects, though not necessarily a bad one. We had our 5-year-old grandson J staying with us for a couple of days. He’s the one in the picture, the one who grew up living with Grandma and Papa, and he’d still rather be at our…

This month has been a nail biter, fiscally speaking, even more so than the past couple of months. Yet hubby and I agreed together that something would come through for us again. And lo and behold, it did. Hubby handed me cash to cover our space rent, I got another one-off job, we sold something…

Now that I’m no longer directly in the tech industry – though that’s kind of swinging back the other direction, which I’ll explain in a bit – I decided it was time to do some cleanup on my plethora of websites. Yes, I did use plethora, and yes it does sound pretentious. I just couldn’t…

If you’re wondering about the “Part Deux” in my title, that’s because I swiped this idea from Thrilary‘s page. Her entry is an homage to those guilty moments of “I want” that are mostly stuck in that phase because, for whatever reason, they’re outside our grasp. However, she also cited a few things that I…