Trina Machacek

There are not many times that I succumb to advertising pitches of; buy me and your life will be all butterflies and lollipops. You know the TV ads that show before and after […]

Some things happen out of the blue that make me giggle. Not long ago that was just what happened. I was riding in an elevator, by myself, four or five times in a day […]

I was recently reading a story about a group of friends that climbed mountains all over the world and had lived through an avalanche or two. That’ll never happen to me. I don’t climb […]

Accidents will happen. That is a given. Accidents are a part of life. You accidently drop an egg on the floor and you accidently say a word that would curl your preacher’s hair. You […]

With winter falling off of our radar it seems appropriate to look deep into that abyss of darkness and monster hidey holes, aka our closets, to find the next season’s apparel. Oh swell! I […]

I was once told to learn one new thing every day. Good advice. But harder than chewing ten year old rock candy to keep up with. Try it–for a week. Not the rock candy, […]

It sounds so easy, selling your stuff online. Of course E-bay comes to mind first and foremost. How hard, really, could it be? Millions, if not hundreds of millions of people have and […]

February. Holidays have gone into the history books. Well the big holidays. Spring is on the horizon. Well the far, far horizon. TV shows are reruns of reruns showing promises of the new episodes to […]

The eye doctor I go to talked me into an extra pair of glasses. A pair that I can wear when I am doing stuff at the computer. A pair that will make […]