- Waving goodbye to the wheat
- January 15, 2012
- Today’s wheat has been engineered to be addictive, just like tobacco. Why do you think we can polish off a bread basket in 10 minutes flat?
- Boomer Girl Diary: Resolving to play more Twister in 2012
- January 1, 2012
- In case you haven’t fully gained consciousness after last night’s champagne-fueled Twister tournament (oh, wait! That was me), today is the first Sunday AND the first day of a new year.
- Boomer Girl Diary: Recalling MawMaw
- December 18, 2011
- Cathy offers a touching remembrance of her mother-in-law, costume jewelry and all.
- Boomer Girl Diary: It’s a dog’s life at 3 a.m.
- November 20, 2011
- It’s a weird and wacky world at 3 in the morning.
- Boomer Girl Diary: Weathering the DASH Diet
- November 7, 2011
- Winter is a blessing for Cathy, who loves cold-weather clothing and comfort food, but this year promises to be different now that her husband’s on the DASH Diet.
- Boomer Girl Diary: A love-hate relationship with Halloween
- October 16, 2011
- Cathy catalogs some costume successes and failures throughout the years.
- Boomer Girl Diary: Mining for liquid gold in my own back yard
- October 2, 2011
- An impending trip to the veteranarian forces Cathy to get up close and person with cocker spaniel.
- Boomer Girl Diary: New ‘do a don’t
- September 18, 2011
- This week, while the rest of the world fretted over the unemployment rate, government debt in Europe and the possible dismantling of the Big 12, I was having a full-tilt tizzy over my crowning glory. It was a haircut that — through no fault of my wonderful stylist — went horribly, horribly wrong.
- Boomer Girl Diary: The real value of work
- September 4, 2011
- It’s no secret that the job market is unforgiving, but the true value of employment extends beyond a paycheck.
- Boomer Girl Diary: Weddings then and now
- August 21, 2011
- Cathy has a wealth of weddings to witness in the next two months, which prompts me to examine how nuptials have changed since my “big day” in 1979.
- Boomer Girl Diary: Enough already
- August 7, 2011
- They say a picture is worth a thousand words. I’d like to use the next 750 of them to file a complaint about the rash of “look how freaking hot it is” photos circulating the interwebs this week.
- Boomer Girl Diary: Dog day blues
- July 17, 2011
- With the heat index tipping 110, Cathy Hamilton finding it difficult to keep a sunny disposition.
- Boomer Girl Diary: Working to slack off
- July 3, 2011
- Traditionally exercise-averse, Cathy may have found her recreation of choice.
- Boomer Girl Diary: The perils of pop-ins
- June 19, 2011
- My dad’s been gone for over three years now, but each Father’s Day, while bittersweet, gets a little easier to take. Especially when I focus on one of my favorite Dad stories, like this one.
- Boomer Girl Diary: Wretched wabbits
- June 5, 2011
- Hating bunnies. Is there a faster, more direct, one-way ticket to Hell than that?
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