The thing about sending your kid back to college after spending an extended spring / summer / COVID break with him is... well, I don’t wanna. Loud, exaggerated HMPF. Er, maybe even supersonic SIGH. OK, fine, big old snotty SNIFF. All right, ya got me already — heaving SOBS of sadness, ...
It’s funny how brave the humans are sometimes. And when I say brave, I am, of course, being snarky as snot. Wait, can snot be snarky? Hmm. How about slimy as snot? Slippery as snot? Stinky as snot? BAM. I’m totally being stinky as snot. My main point is this: There is many an ...
It was a good, long run. Most people don’t have even half the time we had together. If I’m being honest, I knew the day would come that we’d be separated ... that we would lose contact entirely and that one, sad, cold, lonely day, er, in August, as it turns out, that it would be ...
Sometimes life gives you lemons. Sometimes it gives you limes. Or Lyme disease. Snarky Patty alert: This past week did not go well for me, my friends. In fact, it’s been one that not only has been the absolute Stink-A-Palooza 2021, but also has been one I would not wish on anyone. Except maybe the mean troll who was responsible for it. Word on the street is that mean guys finish last? Hmm. Either way. It was one that I would love to repeat NEVER. Not by a long shot. Or a short one, either Or a putter shot. Or a vaccine shot. Or rim shot — or any other shot sort, ...
I can still remember it as if it happened this past Christmas. I know exactly where I was and what I was doing when I got the call from my niece / goddaughter / No. 1 girl-on-the-planet, Kelly Marie. “Aunt Patty, I need to tell you something…” her voice trailed off the phone for a ...
How was your week? Probably, like mine, a little wonky from the start, right? Let’s face it, whenever there’s a legal holiday that, in essence, causes Monday to become Sunday, the whole week is just off. You head back into the office feeling like it’s the day it should be, not the day ...
