Doreen's Blog

Of all the hard and fast rules I’ve made for the Tyler household, the only one that has ever stuck is The Squeegee Rule. In the rule it states, “Those who shower shall squeegee the shower when finished showering. Death to those who fail to squeegee.” The decision to make the rule derived from my [...]

Steve and I sat on the back deck last evening, listening to birdsong. Unlike last year, the farmyard air has been aflutter with birds of all shapes and sizes and birdsong. Our favorite is the oriole. Their whistling song is most distinctive, most pleasing to the ear. This year, we’ve seen orange and yellow breeding [...]

I used the word “dawdle” in an actual sentence Wednesday afternoon. I was trying to exit the MSU Purple Parking Lot when a student crossed, ever so slowly, in front of me as I tried to pull out. “Don’t dawdle!” I hollered (he didn’t hear me). “I want out of here!” Can you blame me [...]

(I wrote this days ago and am just now uploading it to my blog. It’s been a busy week.) This past weekend, I learned a lot of stuff at the Rochester EMS conference. However, the most important thing I learned had nothing to do with trauma, abuse, or the Joplin tornado. Nope, the most important [...]

Seeing as how I hadn’t been reporting on their comings and goings, someone asked me recently what “the girls” have been up to, what kind of trouble they’ve been giving me. I didn’t have much to tell him about my flighty flock of girls. They’re actually pretty well behaved, for the most part… Wait a [...]

We continue to study sedimentary rocks in Geology class. Not igneous rocks. Not metamorphic rocks. Sedimentary rocks, and I’m kind of OK with that. Sedimentary rocks are the fun rocks, the interesting rocks, at least that’s what I keep telling myself. If I didn’t, I might run screaming from Tuesday lab, sobbing and wailing, “They’re [...]

I know people who swear by Craigslist for buying and selling stuff they both need and don’t need. Me? I wouldn’t be caught dead using Craigslist, mainly because there have been people who used it and wound up dead. It’s true. There are some real psychos out there. That said, I was terrified when Tina [...]

It just didn’t seem right to send them to their new home with dirty clothes and dirty hair, you know? I mean, what would their new owners think? That they’d been stored in a barn? As it was, the two Barbie dolls and two Ken dolls that Emily ferreted out of The Big Closet last week [...]

There’s a bit of a conflict between me and Tina as to the origin of the card game, Slap Whale. If you ask Tina, she’ll tell you that she invented the game on a day when she was home sick. If you ask me, I’ll tell you I invented the game on a day when [...]

On Facebook this morning, I posted that (with the 37 degree temperature) it both smells and looks like an early spring day. “How is that supposed to motivate me to decorate the Xmas tree?” I added. FB friend, Sheila, replied, “Plug your nose and close the drapes.” Of course, I collapsed in a fit of giggles over [...]