What they don’t show you on HGTV

You know on the remodeling shows, when the young couple with the helpful (and quiet and polite) children want to spend a fortune remodeling their bathroom, the perky host says something like “well, first we need to take out the old tile.” And it takes five minutes? We’ve been at it for four. days. And […]

If nothing ever changed, there’d be no butterflies.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change. *** Charles Darwin (1809-1882) English naturalist & author of the theory of evolution by natural selection *** You can tell he’s a chip of the ol’ block, my […]

don’t it make you wanna smile

We are in the midst of planning and executing a remodeling project. Sometimes I find that I vacillate between being excited like a schoolkid at the possibilities, and just wanting it to be the fuck over with. Guess where I am at the moment?