Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting. --Traditional Proverb I wish I had better skin. I wish I didn't have to look at rosacea and hormonal dark patches every day. I wish I had soft feet. I wish I knew what it was like to be "the pretty one" instead of "the smart one". I wish aging was easier and not accompanied by failing health. I wish politics would go away. I wish Israel would give the Palestinian people the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. I feel bad that the Palestinian people have no land to call home. I wish there was a home for all the homeless people. I wish there was a job available for everyone who wanted one. I wish college didn't cost so much. I wish every high school graduate could attend college if they chose to. I wish I had a staff to do the cooking, cleaning and grocery shopping for me. I don't want to live in a mansion, I like my house just fine. I just don't like taking care of it. If I had a staff I would treat them l...
My Halloween decorations are pretty much finished. They won't be completely finished until the day after Halloween when I take them down because I will continue to add stuff and rearrange if I run across other things that I like. I'm not decorating my whole house because there's just too much of it. House, that is. I've decided to keep most of my holiday decorations confined to my foyer for a couple of reasons. One is because I just plain can't afford to buy or make enough stuff to decorate the whole house and even if I could there's just too much effort involved in that. Another reason is because foyers are just stupid rooms. They are a complete waste of space. The house I grew up in had a foyer the size of a bedroom. My mother had a huge display case in there that held all her creepy dolls and there were other knick knacks and dust catchers that no one but the paperboy ever saw because no one used our front door. Waste o' space. I've decided to make t...
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