I’m a big fan of Val McDermid’s mystery novels so I was glad to read her newest one. This is a stand-alone story set in current-day Scotland but deals with the miners’ strike and...

Happy Valentine’s Day to everyone !! It’s Saturday (which is always nice since I get to sleep later than normal). And I get to have a fun, romantic tennis date with my husband this...

Another Friday the 13th, huh ? Today it will be lucky for me since I get to buy a new (drumroll, please) dishwasher !! Our current dishwasher hasn’t been cleaning well, and it’s been...

Open Office free office suite has been such a tremendous help to me this week. I’m working on a website for the volunteer action center in our area and they asked me to upload...

My kids watched the 80’s film “Mr. Mom” last night and I think everyone enjoyed it. I told them that’s how their “woobies” got their name. When they were born, each was given a...

Last April I joined the Homescan Consumer Panel and I’ll be celebrating my 1 year anniversary soon. This is an AC Nielsen company where you’re issued a bar code scanner and you manually scan...

Thanks to Pinoy Web Surfer for posting this amazing free font generator. This is the coolest, easiest, funnest computer gadget-y thing. I use Open Office, and it was unbelievably cool to type and see...

I’m not a “crafty” creative person, but it seems like I have alot of fabric decorating projects in the works right now. This pile of fabric strips (each about 5 inches long) is going...

Picnik.com is the coolest site for photo editing. Granted, I’m not a major editing whiz and usually all I want to do is resize and crop my images. But this is free, online, interfaces...

I’m trying to make another rag crochet vase to match the one I made earlier, but I had a problem with the second one being too big. So now I’m going to tear out...