I don’t often publicly admit to watching the Dr. Phil show on CBS, but it’s true that I did watch an episode or three during his first two years on the air. However, I’ve found fewer and fewer of his shows worth my time lately, and an excellent Slate.com article (“Dr. Phil’s opportunistic parental-advice franchise“) …

An e-mail came across my DC Web Women listserv the other day referencing a good site to peruse — the Childhood Goat Trauma Foundation. Thankfully, the referrer pointed to it as a “really funny” site, otherwise I would be frightened thinking they were serious!

I’m back in Texas … Rags is back at our apartment … I’m back at work … and I’m back to being swamped. 🙂 Yes, friends, dreamy vacation time is over, and now it’s back to reality. I know I didn’t tell you all abundant stories about my trip, but the pictures really tell the …

Today, Dalis took me to see the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor. What I didn’t ever fully understand is that the memorial is constructed above the wreckage of the battleship, which is clearly visible in the shallow waters of the harbor. It is haunting to look at the massive wall of names of those …

Ma Norell took this one, actually. I have several more pretty ocean/sky/mountain pictures at my Yahoo photo album (“day 1 hawaii” and “day 2 hawaii”).

In the wintertime, the North Shore is a haven for surfers. Right now, though, the waves are pretty tame (or lame). At any rate, here I am at the North Shore. Whee!

… model homes, that is. We looked at many variations of the homes available at Ocean Pointe yesterday, and I had “the fam” pose on the staircase at one of the nicer ones.

I had no idea pineapples were *plants*, not trees. We went to the Dole Plantation yesterday, though, and all my misconceptions were shattered. Isn’t this so cool?

These pictures, and others to come, are available at my Yahoo pictures page. FYI. I love this sunset picture. Don’t you wish you were here?

My sunset pictures turned out great (I have this thing for sunset pictures), but here’s one I didn’t take — Dalis was driving again.