Author Archives: onesanevoice

That’s the word on the street

Posted on May 10, 2007 by onesanevoice

Last night’s telephone call from Son who graduates college next weekend: SON:  Hi!  How ya doin’?  I took my last final today.  I’m finished with school. OSV:  That is so great!  I hear traffic noise, are you on your way home? … Continue reading →

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Before the House Comes Down

Posted on May 6, 2007 by onesanevoice

Last weekend Daughter and I got a treat when one of my Brooklyn Girls called with two extra tickets to Yankee Stadium.  Her husband couldn’t make it which meant my husband wouldn’t make it so she was bringing her son which meant … Continue reading →

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Blogoir (blog-wahr) -noun 1. an online memoir

Posted on May 1, 2007 by onesanevoice

The title of this entry is one of the ways I amuse myself after my homework is done and the dinner dishes are either washed or thrown away depending on how rustic a dinner it was and Husband is in … Continue reading →

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Ghosts in My Head

Posted on April 27, 2007 by onesanevoice

May is a loaded month at our house for good and for bad.  It is the month both Husband and I were born.  It is the month in which Son will soon graduate college.  It holds Mother’s Day.  And it … Continue reading →

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The South’s Gonna Do It Again, Last Part

Posted on April 22, 2007 by onesanevoice

In Birmingham, Alabama we got to spend some time with a couple we’ve known almost since we got married.  Our stories are kind of parallel, theirs being a second marriage occurring a little bit after our own.  I ran the … Continue reading →

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The South’s Gonna Do It Again, Part Two

Posted on April 18, 2007 by onesanevoice

In times past, Husband and I would choreograph our vacations by plotting out a route on a map and consulting travel books and the Internet to arrange stops in historic little towns at quaint bed and breakfasts.  Nowadays we’re still … Continue reading →

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The South’s Gonna Do It Again, Part One

Posted on April 15, 2007 by onesanevoice

Last week we took a little vacation since I had a break from school and Husband is a sweetheart.  We flew down to south Florida (see What, Me Worry? for an overview of my history with flight) and visited his … Continue reading →

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Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be hackers

Posted on April 11, 2007 by onesanevoice

Since computer woes was a theme of the last entry, here is a reprint of a newspaper column published in 1997.  Even though last decade is now technological medieval times, our effort to coexist with what we have created is eternal. The computer … Continue reading →

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The Nature of the Beast

Posted on April 6, 2007 by onesanevoice

I ran into a computer problem this week and had to arrange a rescue.  Lately, every time I published an article it would show up on everyone else’s computer but mine.  I’d have to wait hours and then log back on and suddenly … Continue reading →

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Tough ‘R’ Us

Posted on April 1, 2007 by onesanevoice

I need someone to tell me exactly when things became so difficult to reach.  I bought a new toilet brush to go with our new paint job (hey we’re living now, huh?) and I could tell right away it was … Continue reading →

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