Sara Gruen, the author of Water for Elephants, Riding Lessons, Flying Changes, and Ape House, knows how to tell a story. She knows how to create characters, imperfect though they may be.

I’ve read all of of her novels, and each is spellbinding. I cannot tell you what her secret is, (more…)

Yesterday a dear friend took me to lunch. During our conversation, my friend said, “Do you know what I want most of all?” (more…)

How can the temperature be 100 degrees Fahrenheit where I live and cold and snowy in Capilla del Monte? This is too much for me to absorb.

Heaven Admin is freezing, and I’m sweltering. Cannot there be a compromise of some sort? (more…)

Today I am going to tell you what Microsoft did so long ago that I bless them for everyday.  From the beginning,  they had the foresight to include this that I am so grateful for.

If they (I always refer to Microsoft as “they”) had not had the foresight to include this, I would really be up a creek. (more…)

From: Gloria Wendroff
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2011 12:25 PM
To: Heaven Admin
Subject: RE: HEADLINES Godwriter(tm) drowned…

Many thanks to you, Heaven Admin, for your heroic act. Thanks to you, no longer do I have to pounce on AUTO REPLY, AUTO REPLY, AUTO REPLY night and day, day and night. Now I can be peacefully annoyed by normal spam. No longer do I have to (more…)

Subject: RE: Autoreply: RE: Autoreply: RE: Autoreply…

“– Esta é uma mensagem gerada automaticamente pela caixa postal de xxx Não há necessidade de respondê-la”

Olá, não utilizo mais este endereço de e-mail. Por favor, atualize meu contato para: Obrigada!”

On 06/20/2011 11:17 AM, Gloria Wendroff wrote to Heaven Admin: (more…)

What can all the difficulties that I had with Windows 7 be but voodoo? What other possible explanation can there be?

Now that Windows 7 has become vanquished, guess what happened. (more…)

If you have to have computer troubles, and Heaven Admin is in Argentina, then you want to have Caleb.

Caleb not only knows his stuff and works quickly and confidently, he focuses. Can’t you see his ability to focus in his photo above? (more…)

I am wondering. When I do get upset with people, it would seem I get upset because their ego is showing and it rubs against my ego. There are two parts here that seem to be separate: The first part is my observation of another’s ego and the second part is getting upset by it. They do not always go together. (more…)

Or should I entitle this blog entry Computer Drama?

My loyal laptop Schatzi crashed.  My address book is gone. All this is hard enough. Now I am faced with finding my way around Windows 7.

XP was good to me. I long for XP.  I think Windows 7 has complicated things for no good reason but to have a new program. What used to be one click on XP seems to be two or three clicks in Windows 7.

I could make a long list of my woes with Window 7, how complicated it is, how I can’t find documents, how it keeps asking me, when I delete, if I really mean to delete etc. When I say Delete, trust me, I mean Delete. When I say Open an attachment, I mean it.  My daughter Lauren told me how to stop the incessant pings and to stop the computer from making voice announcements like: YOUR VIRUS PROTECTION PROGRAM HAS BEEN  UPDATED. (more…)