Why did the turtle cross the road?

by | Jun 4, 2014 | Life

I joined my gym again a couple of months ago. The winter was a lazy one for me and I need to shed a few pounds. I’ve gone back and forth the past few years, and this time, I intend to keep up with it until I have as flat a stomach as a middle-aged woman can...

Meryl fixes a chair

by | Feb 13, 2013 | Life

Once in a blue moon–nah, not even that often–I do something that is actually handy. Like today, I finally decided to take the whole cushion off my kitchen chair with the broken legs, and replace the ripped cushion on my kitchen chair with the good legs....

Fifty things about me, Part 1

by | Dec 1, 2012 | Life

I put a series of posts about me on my political blog. Here’s the first of them. 1. I love elephant jokes. All of them, no matter how old, how stupid, or how many times I have heard them. I laugh at them, over and over again. A friend of mine used to have a book...

Things Meryl did today

by | Nov 1, 2012 | Life

Dragged 200 pounds of sand away from her front door and into her garage. (She was worried that the rain from Sandy would come up to her front door, because it nearly did in a storm about two weeks ago.) Went to the audiologist and discovered that she still has quite...