All well and good if you’ve only got one pet. We have four cats, one of whom is shaped roughly like a rugby ball. Only one. Now tell me how we get her to slim down while the others eat normally. 

Oh, how lovely! I hope I’ll get to see the Hawaiian volcanoes again. We’ve seen cinder cones in the Owens Valley but it’s not the same thing as far as I’m concerned.

I think they both would have been delighted.

My parents lived in the Louisville area, and as it happened, Thunder Over Louisville was going on during the weekend of both their memorial services. So both my parents went out with a bang.

I wanted to see a volcano most of my life. Been fascinated by them ever since I was a little girl. In 2016 we went to Hilo, and after we got checked into our hotel room I stepped out on the balcony and THERE WAS MAUNA KEA. That was two days before my birthday. On my birthday (66th) I got a stylized tribal tattoo of a…

You forgot to mention that when someone drags one across the floor, it deafens everyone in the vicinity.

If you get an item through interlibrary loan, it will probably come with a wrapper of some kind, giving the details of the lending library and where they sent it to. Do not, for heaven’s sake, rip that wrapper off and throw it away, no matter how much of a nuisance you think it is. That’s how both libraries keep track…

I’m 68.

One of my brothers has OCD and other people burping drove him nuts. He insisted we all did it on purpose.

I never learned how to turn cartwheels or jump rope when other people were turning it. The latter lack of skill made me a grade school playground outcast.

It’s been available in the Los Angeles area for a while. I’ve tried it. That’s about all I have to say about it.

My husband’s father’s arms and scalp were covered by flaky, crusty skin because he would not wear sunscreen. Turned out that a lot of that stuff was actually skin cancer. It was a type that posed no serious risk and my father-in-law ignored it.

My kids didn’t have a problem with bibs, but they were champs at getting a goodly portion of every meal on the floor. We bought the cheapest thin plastic dropcloths we could find, cut them along their fold lines, and put a section of dropcloth under the high chair. When it got too splattered to be usable, we’d just…

I was able to postpone jury service once because I had a vertigo attack while I was in the jury waiting room. They were very nice about it and let me pick the day my postponed service would start. (Downtown Los Angeles courthouse)

If you did have terrible taste in film, you’d love Tarantino’s drivel.

Wups! You can tell I’m not a gamer. It’s actually a Nintendo 2DS. Duh!

Add to the misery the fact that zero-G travel gives some people the runs.

A dusting of coconut sugar works too.

I got a PS2 so my granddaughter could regularly kick my butt at Mario Kart. And I’m not letting her win, either. 

I’m with you on that. I will not buy shoes, socks or underwear at thrift stores, but anything else is fair game. And if the item’s still good when I get done with it, back to the thrift store it goes.