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On Saturday I headed for Newberry, SC to see Brenda Lee at the Newberry Opera House. I left home around 8:30 a.m. and about 30 miles down the road I was going over, in my head, the things I had packed. I don't know why I do this, but I do. Well, I realized I had forgot the most important thing...My CAMERA. I panicked. Then I thought, I'll just stop at Wal-Mart and get me another digital...

Some people say that office culture is important, and I tend to agree. I didn’t have a pleasant one in my last job (notice I say “last” job – I got the hell out of there). I was a temporary hire who was there to do a specific job so I didn’t have the usual nice, spacious office that I am accustomed to; I was relegated to a cubicle. Call me a snob if you want to, but facts are facts. Once...

I have never blogged before and so you will have to tell me if I am totally off basehere. I read...

Some people say that office culture is important, and I tend to agree. I didn’t have a pleasant office culture in my former job (notice I say “former” job – I got the hell out of there). I was a temporary hire who was there to do a specific job so I didn’t have the usual nice, spacious office that I am accustomed to; I was relegated to a cubicle. Call me a snob if you want to, but facts...

There are few things more irritating to me than getting a spirited, cheery phone call from a 20-something-year-old in my doctor’s office on the morning I’m supposed to be in that office for a yucky age-related procedure, but I’m not there. This is how one such call recently went: “Good morning, Ms. Roxby – this is Mary Louise Catherine (Alabamians love double and triple first names) -...

As Josh Randolph, leading Defense attorney for Bigelow County, NY awakened at 8:30 am on that Monday morning, he realized that he was handcuffed to the bed in the swanky hotel he had spent the night in. He was also totally nude. Josh was due in court at 11:00 to begin defending a major NY financier who was charged with fraud and fiscal negligence. He called out to his new lover, Amanda Ingram,...

Both my sisters died in 2001. A couple of weeks after my sister Patty died, I was standing on the back deck talking to my mother on the phone. I don't remember what we were talking about, but I do remember what happened during the call. My sister sent her first postcard from the other side. As I was talking, a dove flew up from beneath the feeder and perched on the deck railing. It landed...