deanna hershiser

I’m starting over.
I was into a wonderful, rambling post about further musings on belief, and. Well. Maybe it wouldn’t have been wonderful to try plowing through on your way to a zillion other blogs, distractions, and weekend activities.
So I shall attempt to concise things up a bit for next week. Anyway, one of those cool [...]

We have bid farewell to the first month of 2010. I’ve started saying twenty-ten. I think someone told me to – I’m not sure. Anyway, it’s easier.
Our first decade had to turn out as the 2000s. While a hundred years earlier people could easily say nineteen-oh-one, nineteen-aught-two, etc., twenty-oh-one wouldn’t have rolled off the tongue. [...]

Remember (you who related to my post last week about my mom’s old Royal) how it felt to snug the sheet of typing paper into its place between the guides, to turn the carriage until the top of the page came around? If it was off-kilter, you pushed and held a release button while straightening [...]

Every year it happens.
Just when everybody else revs up in excitement over NaNoWriMo, NaBloPoMo, and all the other greatest things to do in and around cyberland, I start to chill out.
Or maybe it’s cozy up. Today our fire burned clear, strong, blithely, and glowingly throughout the hours, while chili simmered in the slow cooker. I’ve [...]

Simultaneously the huge, round spider and I frightened one another. On a precarious stool out front I swiped the big window, dislodging the unsuspecting arachnid. I’m sure she exclaimed something spiderish, while I said, “Oh! Ah! Ah!” and jumped backward. She scrambled beneath the window sill to remain completely hidden while I finished spraying, wiping, [...]

Have you ever gotten hold of a new concept/idea and conferenced with yourself about it all afternoon?
Weird, I know. But I am my enterprise’s go-getter, slacker, researcher, harried bookkeeper, and PR person. Today we’re all brainstorming, sending out for Yumm bowls, and trying not to drive one another insane.
Hope we wrap things up before the [...]

I always thought saying the “three r’s” was kind of dumb, since only one of the words actually starts with “r.” But that’s visual me. The sounds work, mostly, for the words. A-rithmetic is what I should be focused on this afternoon, catching up with finances and such. Though I don’t know some days if [...]

Two things I never could’ve dreamed up appeared online today:
1. Comedian Eddie Izzard has been running marathons around the UK all summer. I mean, he has run one every day, six days a week. Amazing. You can read the story with a couple side interviews here.
I came to enjoy Izzard’s stand-up humor almost against my [...]

You know you miss your daughter when, over the weekend, your husband makes recordings of old LPs and 45s, and you hear a pop tune that began, actually, as a TV commercial with people standing on a hillside holding pop bottles.
You start to talk to your husband about the social and political implications of advertising [...]

Things are going, well, the way they’re supposed to, undoubtedly. I’m grateful for happy birthdays Tim and I enjoyed earlier this month. (One reason we got married is our birthdays are ten days apart, so we’ll never forget each other’s.) The next event will be our 30th anniversary in July. What do we plan for [...]