The Simple Pleasure of a Snowball — It’s a Baltimore Thing
June 21, 2009
By Suzanne Molino Singleton
A simple pleasure of spring is spotting the snowball stand’s hinged door propped wide for the first time. Swerving your car quickly into the parking lot and scampering out to attack a cup of your favorite flavor Read more »
Sorry Kids, TV’s on the Blink
June 1, 2009
By Suzanne Molino Singleton
On a four-family camping trip in Pennsylvania over Memorial Day weekend, I had slyly asked the campground ahead of time to tape a note on the TV in our “rustic cabin” (why it had a TV in it to begin with is beyond my comprehension) so that my 12- and 17-year-old teens would spend time outdoors instead of in a comatose position on the bunk beds. Read more »
Crying for Someone, No One, Nothing, Everything
May 19, 2009
By Suzanne Molino Singleton
Why do we cry at a funeral of someone we didn’t know?
Seems the cheerless scene forces us to put on the brakes of life as we rise above the trivia, like an angel peering down from heaven. Read more »
A Ralph Lauren Spoon Reminds Walker to Think Green
April 28, 2009
By Suzanne Molino Singleton
Doing the country-road-dog-walking-thing last Sunday evening, I spotted two conscientious neighbors on the side of a two-mile road donning work gloves and carting black trash bags. Read more »
Feeling Sorry For Men … For a Minute
April 17, 2009
By Suzanne Molino Singleton
Let’s pretend we understand men for a minute.
Think about what they must contend with concerning the female species. Women are emotional, whiny, catty, fickle, too sensitive, and all-over-the-place in the thought process. We get headaches, complain, and we’re complicated. Read more »
One Restless Day
March 26, 2009
By Suzanne Molino Singleton
It was a day I couldn’t settle into myself. My head was noisy and I felt restless, boxed in. Most things were annoying me Read more »
No Crying on the First Day of Spring Training
March 25, 2009
By Suzanne Molino Singleton
One would think in 18 years of facing the start of spring training - and another long baseball season - a wife might become accustomed to the idea of a baseball hubby leaving home. Read more »
Now I Seek Imperfection
March 5, 2009
By Suzanne Molino Singleton
I once sought perfection in my body; now I seek health and comfort in 49-year-old skin; doing my best to age gracefully, and if there are 10 extra pounds and laugh lines, so be it. Read more »
Success Doesn’t Magically Happen
Don't Wait For Someone Else's Crumbs To Fall
February 26, 2009
By Suzanne Molino Singleton
The lone gray and white seagull sat three feet from me, watching, waiting for a single crumb to drop from my a.m. muffin. He wasn’t getting a morsel.
Selfishly, I was the one who had walked across the boulevard to the beach café to purchase it. I was the one who had worked up a small appetite on the bike for an hour, before plopping my sweaty self on my pre-situated beach chair. And I was the one in the first place who had earned the $4.82 to purchase the peach muffin and coffee. Read more »
“You Know You’re Addicted to Facebook When…”
February 19, 2009
By Suzanne Molino Singleton
My name is Suzanne and I’m a facebookaholic. I didn’t mean for it to happen. Knowing I didn’t need yet one more thing to keep me occupied on the computer, I fought the start of a profile. Read more »
