(Totally going to have Whitesnake in my head the rest of the night, btw.) I plopped down on the couch tonight with my tiny, personal lemon pie and got cozy as I prepared to read… …wait for it… …my new Nutrisystem resource guide. Yep, I was…

I can’t remember how I came across it, but I was recently reading about synesthesia. It’s difficult to put into my own words, so I’ll use a stolen (borrowed?) explanation: “Synesthesia is a neurological condition in which stimulation of one sensor…

I went to Starbucks earlier this afternoon and as I was walking back to my car, I noticed a tiny gnat headed right for my noggin as it was about a foot or so in front of me. I assumed it would try to avoid collision, but I didn’t see it peel off. …

A few years ago, my then-guitar teacher and I were having a conversation about what type of musician we considered ourselves. He asked me if I ever considered myself a singer, and I emphatically said no. He asked me why. “I dunno, I just never rea…

I can’t win. On weeknights when all I want to do is get to bed at a decent hour for maximum sleepage, I fail miserably. And on nights when I don’t have anything I need to be up early for the next day, it’s not uncommon for me to hit the hay by 9:3…

A color. A fragrant, bushy plant. A smart person. But wait! It’s also an adjective. Sage [ˈsāj ]. Adjective. 1. Wise through reflection and experience. If there was any guarantee I could get away with making my body a canvas for tattoos the way Ni…

When I was 13, my parents and I flew back to Kansas City to visit some friends who used to be our next-door neighbors here in Anaheim. I think I’d only been on one trip before that where I actually flew somewhere, so flying was still a big thing t…

Exactly three miles north of Disneyland is my house. It’s on a cul-de-sac, and it’s the street that I grew up on. I like to think of my casa as the everything house. It’s the house that I came home to after my first day of preschool, my first day …

Sometimes I wonder what I’m going to write about when I sit down at the keyboard each night before bed, and then I realize how silly I am for not knowing. After all, it’s a blog about something I’m grateful for each day, so is it really that hard …

Have you ever had a random thought or feeling about something and, after you’ve followed it and checked out what it was all about, you realize it paid off in a delightful way? I was watching TV last night when a commercial for La-Z-Boy came on. I …