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Larry, Phil, and the Tacky Cup

05/25/2019 Sharon Swanepoel 0

Once upon a time I found myself on the boardwalk of Atlantic City, New Jersey. I wandered into a souvenir shop to kill time and, there amongst the t-shirts and paperweights were coffee mugs and […]

True Remorse

05/12/2019 Sharon Swanepoel 0

My dog, Lincoln, knows a handful of words and commands like “Sit” and “Wait” and “Breakfast” and “Treat.” He’s smart enough to know the sound our phones make when our favorite stalker app, Life360, signals […]

Metaphorical Filters

04/13/2019 Sharon Swanepoel 0

For purposes of writing this article, I just did a search and learned that one should change one’s air conditioning filter in one’s home anywhere from every 30-90 days, depending upon one’s allergies, the dustiness […]

Alpha Mom

03/30/2019 Sharon Swanepoel 0

I will grant you that we aren’t the best dog owners on the planet. I do not mean that we abuse our dog. Not in any way. If anything, he’s spoiled. It’s just that I’m […]

Hope for Humanity

03/16/2019 Sharon Swanepoel 0

Every once in a while, I find myself getting down on the fate of humanity. If you need any proof of the state of man’s unkindness to fellow man, just spend five minutes on social […]

JERK JERK

03/02/2019 Sharon Swanepoel 0

We live, so it seems, in bubbles and behind glass screens. They may be computer screens, or phone screens, or the windshields of our cars, but no matter what there seems to be something between […]

Candy Grams and Mammograms

02/15/2019 Sharon Swanepoel 0

There comes a time in a middle-aged woman’s life when she must bear her breasts to a stranger for smooshing and radiating in the name of health. I mean, she doesn’t have to have to, […]

Would You Do That To A Puppy?

02/03/2019 Sharon Swanepoel 0

I was sitting on the sofa petting my dog. It had been a bad day, and I was thinking how much better I felt stroking his fur and feeling his warm puppy breath on my leg. […]

A Stabbing Pain in the Neck

01/18/2019 Sharon Swanepoel 0

There comes a time in any decades-long marriage, no matter how solid, loving, and in-for-the-long haul when you want to stab your beloved in the eye with a fork. This is why all the women […]

New Year Same Me

01/05/2019 Sharon Swanepoel 0

With the new year comes a whole slew of social media posts, blogs, and articles titled a variation on “New Year, New You.” These are, I suppose, intended to be helpful and hopeful, and every […]

Stay-Away-Muffs

12/20/2018 Sharon Swanepoel 0

Considering the fact that I listen and talk for a living, I sure do get tired of listening and talking. By the end of the week, I reach my capacity. My hard drive gets full. […]

How Much Is That Doggy at the Craft Fair Part Two

12/09/2018 Sharon Swanepoel 0

As you will recall from last week’s column, I left my husband alone for ten minutes at a street fair in South Carolina, 200 miles away from our home, and instead of buying a jar […]

How Much is that Doggy in the Craft Fair?

12/02/2018 Sharon Swanepoel 0

I didn’t grow up with pets. My father has a basic contempt for any critter that doesn’t have the sense to be born a human being. My mother teeters between being afraid of anything with […]

The Quaint City of Monroe

11/23/2018 Sharon Swanepoel 0

I may have been born in Lawrenceville, but another city holds the title of “home” in my heart. Monroe, Georgia has been my hometown for the past twelve years, and its riveting culture and diverse […]

Ode to Flannel Sheets

11/10/2018 Sharon Swanepoel 0

Ode to Flannel Sheets “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,” And beauty occureth not without a good night’s sleep. Therefore without sleep, there is no truth, Only a jumble of undercaffeinated syllables. Percale will do, […]

U.S.S. Nightmare

10/28/2018 Sharon Swanepoel 0

I’m not a huge fan of scary things. Probably because my day to day life is scary enough. As a lawyer, I’m one of the first people that gets a call when someone dies, I’m […]

My Superpower

10/21/2018 Sharon Swanepoel 0

“If you could have any superpower, what would it be?” Of course, I’m not going to get a superpower any time soon, but it’s an interesting question to contemplate. My first thought when presented with […]

Cleanliness is Next to Impossible

10/01/2018 Sharon Swanepoel 0

The biggest problem with cleaning your house beyond a swipe with a paper towel is that you realize the level of filth you’ve been living in. There was a stain on my carpet. The stain […]

Mean Spirited Jerk Faces

09/16/2018 Sharon Swanepoel 0

If you’ve been watching the news lately, or even been trying to avoid it, or occasionally taking a gander at Facebook or Twitter or your social media of choice, or at the very least been […]

Hangin’ with the Cool Kids

09/01/2018 Sharon Swanepoel 0

I have absolutely no idea how I birthed a girl who is so cool that, while she might have asked me what the homework was or to borrow a pencil in high school, she would […]