Deborah Jones Sherwood
  • Welcome
  • *Silent Night
  • *Everything I Know about Christmas, I Learned from the Hallmark Channel
  • Christmas in the '50s
  • *The Holiday Letter 2015
  • My 2018 Christmas Letter
  • The Man in the Red Plaid Shirt
  • Happy New Year!
  • *Sparking Joy
  • Happy Halloween!
  • *ZOOMING ALONG
  • *The Elderly Lady Next Door
  • Me & Mr. K
  • *The SEND Button and Other Regrets
  • *Home Alone
  • Valentine's Day
  • *Ain't no way to Treat a Lady
  • *Dawdlers and Tiaras
  • My Birthday Fundraiser
  • *'Tis the Season to be......Scary!
  • Who You Gonna Call?
  • ...and the winner is.....
  • Remembering Annie
  • *Stacation in the Hood
  • My Day as a NIH Lab Rat
  • *Blithe Summer
  • *Never Buy Fish from the Clearance Bin and other Sage Advice
  • *Four and Twenty Blackbirds
  • Spring! When an Old Man's Fancy turns to Thoughts of ....Home Projects
  • Oh, Maury!
  • Oh, Crap. Another Birthday.
  • There's No Cool like an Old Cool
  • Mooning the Baptists on Easter Sunday
  • Bye, Bye, Bonnie
  • *When I'm Sixty-Four
  • *Take me out to the Ballgame...please?
  • Honor Flight
  • "But you don't look sick."
  • Are you an Old Geezer with an Extra Nats Ticket?
  • Are you the Goat who kicked me in the Head?
  • *Oh! The Places You'll Go!
  • *You Go, Girl!
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Good News!
     I just checked the actuarial life table, and odds are I'll likely make it through another year.
     With newly acquired optimism, I lazily stretch out in my recliner, pen in hand, prepared to make a brand new, list of New Years' Resolutions. I dig out my list from last year, dust it off, and read: lose weight, exercise more, and eat healthier. Okay, that didn't work. Obviously, I need to be more realistic.

My New Years’ Resolutions:
  • Purge my email addresses; seventeen are probably more than I really need.
  • Be nosier. Minding my own business is pretty boring.
  • Find the panda.
  • Have a Facebook posting go viral.
  • Stop trusting auto-correct. This is a lesson I learned after I hit the SEND button and found words like chat changed to “cheat” available to “unavailable” treats to “threats,” and the delicious polenta casserole to “the delicious tadpole casserole.”
  • No longer make excuses for spending the day in my jammies. Sometimes, I just don’t want to get dressed.
  • Date smarter men. A man who meant to attach his picture to an email, inadvertently attached a pdf of his bank statement…..(hmmmmmmm....I thought lawyers made more money than that.)
  • Sneak 4 ounces past a TSA agent.
  • Drink more.
  • Keep my “I’ve Fallen and I Can’t Get Up” button close by….you never know…..

     Have a wonderful New Year, and stay bundled up ~ that cute young weather guy on channel 4 is saying snow is on the way!