tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-376553 2010-01-08T04:49:00-05:00 With three names--Lorraine, L.L. Bartlett, and Lorna Barrett--is it any wonder she's dazed and confused? TypePad tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8345202e069e20120a7b1b4df970b 2010-01-08T04:49:00-05:00 2010-01-08T04:49:00-05:00

If I didn't have any calanders in the house, I would still know that January has arrived. Why? Because the icicles have returned to my house. The bright-boy architect (it had to be a man, because this house was built...

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By guest blogger, Toni L.P. Kelner My pet peeve? Celebrity reporting. It's gotten out of control! Now don't get me wrong. I don't insist on an unending string of hard news. In fact, unending streams of hard news depress the...

Lorraine Bartlett http://llbartlett.typepad.com/dazed_and_confused/2010/01/pet-peeve-thursdaytoni-kelner-celebrity-reporting.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8345202e069e2012876aa3f3b970c 2010-01-06T04:06:00-05:00 2010-01-06T08:17:35-05:00

Okay, we're into Day Three of the "Would Hank Phillippi Ryan Eat This" campaign. The first day was great...until I went to Sam's Club. See, I needed a new toner cartridge. Before the holidays, you could graze through Sam's and...

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Last week (or so? I've got a memory like a sieve), I wrote about Christmas gifts and how my brother always gets me "good stuff." Yesterday, I got an IM from him saying he'd me left a little present over...

Lorraine Bartlett http://llbartlett.typepad.com/dazed_and_confused/2010/01/ive-finally-made-it.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8345202e069e20120a79e8809970b 2010-01-04T03:28:00-05:00 2010-01-04T03:28:00-05:00

It's that time of year when a lot of us make resolutions to change. One of the biggest resolutions is the old I WILL LOSE WEIGHT gambit. I've tried this a number of times and it's never worked out. *Sigh*...

Lorraine Bartlett http://llbartlett.typepad.com/dazed_and_confused/2010/01/what-would-hank-do.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8345202e069e2012876a0dc24970c 2010-01-03T11:51:36-05:00 2010-01-03T11:51:36-05:00

Please give Sisters In Crime a hand and forward this message to your favorite library. Sisters in Crime is pleased to announce the first "We Love Libraries" lottery. Monthly grants of $1,000 will be awarded from January through December 2010....

Lorraine Bartlett http://llbartlett.typepad.com/dazed_and_confused/2010/01/know-a.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8345202e069e20128768c89d5970c 2009-12-30T04:43:00-05:00 2009-12-30T04:43:00-05:00

Hubby and I have a rambling ranch house. We love it. There are so many wonderful places you can go to on a snowy day and plunk yourself down to read (or write)--including my office. But there's just one problem...my...

Lorraine Bartlett http://llbartlett.typepad.com/dazed_and_confused/2009/12/heat-on-a-winters-day.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8345202e069e20128768c6f9d970c 2009-12-29T10:31:36-05:00 2009-12-29T10:31:36-05:00

Hubby and I have several Christmases. Friday morning, we did stockings with his mother. Friday evening, we did a presents exchange with my family. On Saturday night, hubby and I did our own gift exchange. I like that. It draws...

Lorraine Bartlett http://llbartlett.typepad.com/dazed_and_confused/2009/12/oooh-i-love-prezzies.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8345202e069e20120a7360dcc970b 2009-12-25T04:46:00-05:00 2009-12-25T04:46:00-05:00

Back when we were courting (don't you just love that phrase?), my now-husband bought me a Christmas cassette (tells you how long ago THAT was) called Celtic Christmas, harp music by Kim Robertson. I fell in love with one piece...

Lorraine Bartlett http://llbartlett.typepad.com/dazed_and_confused/2009/12/and-sheep-may-safely-graze.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8345202e069e20120a77245a8970b 2009-12-23T04:03:00-05:00 2009-12-23T08:13:09-05:00

For about twenty-three years now, my sweetie has taken me to lunch just before Christmas. It's a tradition we love and is almost always very special. The very first time we went out, was actually our second lunch together. I...

Lorraine Bartlett http://llbartlett.typepad.com/dazed_and_confused/2009/12/the-annual-christmas-lunch.html