Houses

Cottage Status Report 20240929

I know you’ve been anxiously awaiting an update on the health of my cottage appliances (probably as anxiously as you’ve been anticipating a sequel to Beetlejuice, which may be arriving at a screen near you soon). The good news is the zombie dishwasher remains mostly undead, as long as I whisper encouraging dish-cleaning words and perform a highly exact ritual …

Middle Age

My Friend Michelle

  My friend Michelle “threw off her mortal coil” in her 61st year last week. And I use that expression as the most apt I could think of in this ...
Middle Age

Techno-jail

At the cottage, we use our iPhone hotspots to access the internet. This works pretty well, except on summer long weekends or when it’s raining, when everybody and their progeny ...
Middle AgeTravels

Cottage Status Report 20240729

I am pleased to announce that the Broken Appliance of the Month award goes to the dishwasher. Even though we’re not quite through July, I’m pretty confident nothing else will ...
Marilyn Carr meets the Beatles

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Writer. Editor. Ghostwriter.

Books Books

The next instalment of my memoir, If It’s Shreveport, It Must Be Tuesday, will be published later in 2024.

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