Category Archives: humor

Ukulele playing requires “tiny bubbles”

Posted on February 27, 2012 by stillalife

No sooner had I posted a piece about how humbling is the experience of being a beginner in a new field, in my case taking a hot glass class, when a new opportunity to show how little I knew popped … Continue reading →

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Want to look younger? Make faces

Posted on February 6, 2012 by stillalife

Sunday afternoon my husband and I found ourselves lying on our backs, rolling our heads from side to side while moving our tongues and eyes in the opposite direction.  We also pressed our fingertips in circles around our eye sockets … Continue reading →

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Vacation planning is a martial art

Posted on January 28, 2012 by stillalife

One of the few things I long for from the “good old days” is having an abundance of travel agents I could count on to help plan a trip.  For those too young to remember, these were people who spent their … Continue reading →

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The joys of rewriting

Posted on January 26, 2012 by stillalife

I’m getting good practice in case I ever have the unlikely opportunity to work with an editor or agent to get my novel published.  (I say unlikely, because the publishing world is weighted down these days with grim stories about … Continue reading →

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The silence of snow

Posted on January 18, 2012 by stillalife

“The Joy of Quiet,” an article by Pico Iyer in the New York Times cites a growing trend of setting aside time to escape from telephones, email, newspapers, Facebook and other distractions. Mr. Iyer says he retreats to a monastery several … Continue reading →

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Snow days

Posted on January 14, 2012 by stillalife

It’s snowing, a condition that terrifies most of us in the central Puget Sound region because snow falls so infrequently. We like looking at it, but prefer that it stay in our mountains where it belongs. Now retired, I can … Continue reading →

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Expect the unexpected in the Year of the Dragon

Posted on January 3, 2012 by stillalife

Why bother with New Year’s resolutions when the end of the world is coming on December 21? I read in this morning’s Seattle Times that apocalyptic thinkers are predicting even stranger things: the reversal of the earth’s polarity so that magnetic … Continue reading →

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Creating a “reverse bucket list”

Posted on December 29, 2011 by stillalife

What are you leaving off your bucket list? Or better said, what do you absolutely never want to do before you die, also called a reverse bucket list?  Writer Katherine Bindley raised this question in a huffingtonpost.com article on December 21. … Continue reading →

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Worst gifts ever?

Posted on December 23, 2011 by stillalife

An article I read on gift-giving and gratitude reminded me of a funny story I heard this year. I’ll keep it short, since I suspect few people who celebrate Christmas have time to read emails and blog posts on December … Continue reading →

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A leopard toilet seat cover is not on my Christmas list

Posted on December 10, 2011 by stillalife

What do a Japanese calendar with images of the Buddha, a pink hippopotamus Christmas tree ornament, a bumping and grinding Santa Claus, and an out-of-date box of frozen cookie dough have in common?  Not much, except that they were presents … Continue reading →

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