Just Ponderin' logo
     
  • Read
  • Stalk me
  • Sustainability
  • Dingle-isms
  • Contact me
search

read

  • view:
  • all posts
  • laugh a little
  • cry a little
  • think a little
  • wag a little
  • Article Thumbnail

    Laugh A Little

    … on drop offs (and drop outs) and pick ups

    I’m not sure if that magnet, which sits above Gronk’s* gas tank filler upper door, is about Marshal Dillon Dingle, or about me. I suppose it’s about him, literally... Read More

    Tags: humor, secrets to happiness, musings, everyday life

  • Article Thumbnail

    Laugh A Little

    … on nicknames lived up to

    The Disposable Shack. Disposed. Well, not quite. But now I am thinking it was so unfair to refer to this wonderful home as the Disposable Shack for so long.... Read More

    Tags: empty nest, joy, secrets to happiness, just ponderin', selling the family home, home, musings, everyday life, family

  • Article Thumbnail

    Laugh A Little

    … on making sense of self

    So… there’s this dress. I can’t tell you much about it because it’s a secret. Not being a member of the Wedding Tradeworkers Union, I had no idea what... Read More

    Tags: humor, photography, secrets to happiness, wedding, musings

  • Article Thumbnail

    Laugh A Little

    … on every man for himself

    That is not a rat. It’s Tony Soprano, a made man on Southport Island. Tony is, in fact, a mink. An American one. I know, I know, based on... Read More

    Tags: family, comedy, humor, New Orleans, NoLA, rats, musings, comedic writing, everyday life

  • Article Thumbnail

    Think A Little

    … on putting your work ‘out there’

    It’s totally freaky. Cars are going by more slowly and I swear they can see me swimming in my fishbowl. Yesterday, a ‘for sale’ sign went up in our... Read More

    Tags: musings, humor, secrets to happiness, selling the family home, home selling

  • Article Thumbnail

    Think A Little

    … on risk and reward

    Yesterday morning I was hanging out in the hotel, getting some work done when I heard from Number One Son Sam, who was practicing with Olive*, then hanging out... Read More

    Tags: musings, humor, photography, joy, New Orleans, Cafe du Monde, French Quarter

  • Article Thumbnail

    Think A Little

    … on pondering along with an understudy

    Meet The Understudy – the at-the-ready stand in for the Sam’s now-crunched automotive star (unable to go on). This is her, prior to meeting her new human way down yonder... Read More

    Tags: wedding planning stress, musings, empty nest, humor, photography, New Orleans, NoLA, selling the family home

  • Article Thumbnail

    Laugh A Little

    … on the rand cove monster

    So… yesterday. One of the things that is hard to resist, even when I am yearning for more time under the covers, is the sunrise. The Inn* faces east…... Read More

    Tags: Nessie, musings, river otter, comedic writing, maine, comedy, humor, photography, Southport, spring in maine, beaver

  • Article Thumbnail

    Think A Little

    … on dawn

    We live on a ball that weights 13,170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 – thirteen septillion, one hundred seventy sextillion – pounds… and yet floats in space. When it turns just so, a star’s light shoots across…... Read More

    Tags: musings, everyday life, maine, photography, joy, Sunrise in Maine, sunrise

  • Article Thumbnail

    Think A Little

    … on a good morning

    The little beach on the island is quiet in the early mornings and late afternoons, even in summer. But in the midst of the busy season, the shells and... Read More

    Tags: spring in maine, musings, everyday life, maine, photography

  • Article Thumbnail

    Think A Little

    … on an awakening

    There are so many firsts this year, now that Self Proclaimed Perfect Boy, Gabe has headed off to college. Some I anticipated, but others – like my first spring... Read More

    Tags: humor, photography, Southport, boothbay, spring in maine, musings, maine

  • Article Thumbnail

    Cry A Little

    … on knowing, and *knowing*

    Until about twenty minutes ago, I couldn’t look. Totally true. It’s been nearly a week since Sam’s accident down in New Orleans, and all of the images I had... Read More

    Tags: musings, family, secrets to happiness

  • ←
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • …
  • 17
  • 18
  • 19
  • 20
  • 21
  • 22
  • 23
  • …
  • 62
  • 63
  • 64
  • →
Dingle-ism graphic

Spanky Baby Jesus

An expletive you can utter any time you need an expletive or you want to express surprise (like, “Jesus H. Christ” or “Jumping Jesus on a Pogo Stick”). It came about when I misread my friend Katherine’s description of her toilet paper nativity scene, where she noted her ‘sparkly baby Jesus’. Sad. True.

Read more Dingle-isms...

Join the bazillions of ponderers (okay, more like thousands (for real!)) by subscribing to the blog:

(I won’t share your address, I promise!)

Subscribe to Blog via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 3,828 other subscribers

WordPress blogger? You can follow here.

contact: lisadingle@justponderin.com

social:

  • Facebook
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter
  • Instagram

©2026 just ponderin’

 

Loading Comments...