Pumpkins Don’t Have Ankles

Family affects us all deeply. The kinds of conversations we have at home reflect the nuances of our upbringing and of the way we think. After all, blood is thicker than water. (Actually, I have never understood that phrase, but it seemed like the best cliche to use at the moment.)
So tonight I went home [...]

This past Saturday was a day full of Adventures of the Grandest Sort. Christy, April and I, along with guide dogs Reba and Winston, went to the Freedom Weekend Aloft festival in Simpsonville. Basically, it’s this big festival to-do revolving around hot air balloons—pretty sweet! Anyway, here is another attempt at photo journalism.
First of all, [...]

My sisters and I have seen our share of anime, or Japanese cartoons, which can be extremely weird. Now, to be fair, I will say that I have watched some series that I rather enjoyed, so I’m not knocking the genre completely. But there are some things that are somehow lost in translation and end [...]

I associate with some very strange people who also happen to be hilarious. Some of the e-mail correspondence I’ve had with them has been downright hilarious. Basically, one of us will say something completely off the wall, and the other reacts like he or she knows exactly what’s going on and adds new (bizarre) details. [...]

It’s happened before and it will probably happen again. A sibling (Heidi) got older. To mark the passing of this event, we (my two other siblings and I) decided to take said sibling for a grand day out.
We went to the outlet stores in Gaffney, South Carolina. That was fun in itself, but even more [...]

<this one is compliments of my sibling unit Becky, whose computer <i am borrowing to write this post. çshe has a weird international keyboard that has random non’english symbols where regular keys are supposed to be. <every time <i try to hit return, <i get this weird ç symbol instead. <instead of a cap, <i [...]

My sister Heidi said she wouldn’t read my blog unless I used the word “llama”.
So here goes: llama.
I hope this makes you happy, Dee.

Olivia the orchid is doing quite well, thank you. A thoughtful gift from my friends Brian and Rebecca, Olivia sits by the window, blossoming in the exotic-looking Asian way only an orchid can.
But if Olivia only knew my past history with potted plants, she’d be quivering in her fancy wood bark soil.
It’s not that I [...]

Welcome to Pumpkins Don’t Have Ankles, a place where I will record some of the funniest happenings in my life, various schemes and conversations my friends and I have come up with, and some of my hilarious dreams (and trust me, some of them are pretty bizarre!). Anyway, I enjoy good humor every now and [...]