Two things to mention right off the bat:    Our promised guest blogger’s post has been delayed until later this week.    To those of you who have contacted me about Sheri Hawley’s blog being down, she and her technical cohorts have been working on figuring the problem out. Sheri is such a great writer and those of us who follow her blog truly miss…

On Monday, I will have a guest writer on Smithellaneous. Be sure to check back in to find out who it is.…

Edited to add:  I’ve heard from a good number of you who have said Smithellaneous is showing up again in the email subject line so it appears that the problem is fixed. There were even a couple of you who went back through old e-mails and told me the exact day  in October the change happened. Have I ever mentioned my readers are the best? …

It was 7:30 a.m. and I had just entered the hospital waiting room. I scoped out the room’s seating choices and immediately opted for a chair on the right side of the room, which was on the opposite end from the room’s only other occupant, a woman in her mid-sixties.…