BBQ Chips, Ale 8 One, two Oreos and a Twinkie

Jul 23, 2010 | Kentucky, MOM

That’s a typical lunch in Kentucky. Ok, just kidding. It’s what I had for lunch one day. Little miss health food here. Gosh, it was good. Ale 8 One is the local soft drink, created, made and bottled in Winchester, my hometown. In fact, I’m staying in...

Copycats

Jun 8, 2010 | MOM, WINSTON

Both my mother and my dog were in the hospital this past weekend. That kinda thing makes it pretty stressful around here. To tell you the truth, I was more worried about my dog. Why was Nana (my mother) in the hospital? Because she TOOK TOO MANY TYLENOL. This tells me...

Mam

Nov 13, 2009 | Cancer, Death & Taxes, MOM

When we first moved here, of all the people we thought might come to visit wild and woolly Costa Rica, Mam, Hal's mom, would be the very last. Not just because she had never shown particular interest in traveling to foreign lands, but because she had been quite...

The Mommy Chronicles III

Sep 14, 2008 | MOM

All Mommy Chronicles: I | II | III | IV She came, she conquered, she threw herself – body and soul – at Costa Rica living, then she left. I’ll get the most obvious problem out of the way first: me. Me ‘n her. If my mom and I were the same age...

“Do You Know The Way To Santa Ana?”

Oct 1, 2007 | MOM

So Mom takes off to do a little exploring. She’s been dying to see Ciudad Colon [see-ooo-DAHD co-LONE… only she says see-YOU-dahd… makes me nuts]. She drives over there, looks around, loves it (she loves everything) and heads back. You have to drive...

La Carpio

Aug 31, 2007 | MOM, Nicaragua, Volunteering

“I’ve worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.” – Groucho Marx in Monkey Business Somewhere over the rainbow, there is no place like La Carpio. No place at all. My visit last Wednesday was so overwhelming, I’m having a...

Home Again

Aug 26, 2007 | Mexico, MOM

Compared to the hundreds of people who lost their homes and histories to the recent floods in the U.S. and to Dean in the Caribbean, Mom’s adventure in Mexico was a snap. Not that the overpriced hellhole run by moronic cretins is off the hook. But some of the...