A year ago, I missed Kevin’s birthday because my car broke down and I couldn’t drive to Iowa City to meet up with everyone for supper. He gave me a hard time for weeks about not being there with everyone to celebrate. This year, things changed. I was there. Or, to be more accurate, he […]

Maybe it’s part of humanity. Maybe it’s a screwed up part of a female’s brain. Maybe it’s our society. Maybe it’s our instinct. Whatever is it, it’s so easy to do. Somehow we always have a hard time accepting ourselves for who we are. It’s so easy to come up with a thousand things that […]

I cleaned my house today. By that, I mean that, along with the usual cleaning methods, I actually dusted my furniture as well. (I hate dusting.) I haven’t cleaned my cedar chest for months so I took everything off of it, including my little Uzbek chess set, and swiped all the dust off of the […]

I am obsessed with real semi-sweet chocolate chips. I don’t know if I can actually NOT eat them every night. Is there a way to get over that? I’ve tried to avoid them. I’ve tried to pass by the aisle. I know which shelf they’re on in Wal-Mart, Target, and Meijer. I don’t want to […]

Carla has surgery to remove a mole. I go along for moral support and camera crew operations. Surgery successful; Carla a handful.

That’s what any makeup artist will tell you. “Don’t hide their skin under the makeup! Use makeup as a tool to highlight beauty so that it looks absolutely natural in a really amazing way!”** I am a licensed esthetician, but what does it really mean? Absolutely nothing. I have the license, but I have so […]