by Amy Lockhart | Apr 13, 2013 | for Home, for Spirit
I was visually accosted by a ginormous television screen. I mean seriously large. No matter what I did I could not get away from the power of the thing. I would have needed serious blinders, and quite possibly a blindfold, to avoid the images and messages protruding...
by Alison Moore Smith | Aug 26, 2012 | for Fun
In the early 1990's, living in Boca Raton, Florida, our house nearly missed being struck by lightening. While we didn't endure a fire or even a hole in our roof, the incredible force of the strike shot through our electrical system and through our surge suppressors....
by Alison Moore Smith | May 28, 2011 | for Home
Depending on where you live, home security can be a serious concern. We live in a generally lovely, crime-free neighborhood, but still had a very expensive package stolen right off our porch. Unfortunately, these days, most of us can use a good security system. The...
by Alison Moore Smith | Feb 22, 2011 | for Fun, for Home
I'm not a big television fan. In fact, for almost two decades I watched so little TV that I couldn't even identify the day/time of a single television show. There was a show called Early Edition that I liked back in the 90s, but that's about it. I never once saw...
by Alison Moore Smith | Sep 19, 2010 | for Home
Now that we are preparing to move into our own digs—finally—we're reconsidering our television choices. After a year using Utopia—instead of a local TV satellite system—we're ready to get back to satellite. All year the signal we've had was lousy, the picture quality...