Go ahead with your little mindless habits. You won’t bother me. Not one bit. Spin the ring on your finger. Twist your hair. Or bite your nails. Click a pen, pick at your lip or fiddle with your ear. Don’t stop ‘cuz of me. You probably don’t know you even do these things …
You are faced with challenges each & every day. And having multiple sclerosis only adds to that fact. Therefore, every day it’s your job to figure out how to deal with those challenges. To make it easier, My Odd Sock has turned it into a game! I’ll provide the situation…then you decide if …
It’s called “Variety Pack” because this post to My Odd Sock consists of a mish-mash of leftover thoughts & observations. Like the variety pack of cereal boxes from your grocer, there may be some you enjoy and some, well, that will be shoved to the back of the pantry. Let’s dig in… Am …
I am offering myself this platform to speak out. I am an eight-year member of AARP. I wear Rockports. I drive slow. I am losing my hair. Correction: not losing hair, it’s just growing in the wrong places. I get cranky and have to let it out before I have a stroke. So here …
Ever been given a gift you didn’t want? A gift you didn’t ask for? A gift you have never used since? Of course you have. We all have. With most gifts you can return them. But this particular gift, I would be too embarrassed to take back. It was a shiny …
It was late October when Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO & poster child of bad barbering, announced his company was changing its name to Meta. Meta, short for “metaverse,” was chosen to best represent a futuristic version of what we now call the internet. Coming to agreement on a new name though, wasn’t an easy …
We’re into November and it is already downright boring. I think the month of November is the lull between October’s beauty & fun of halloween…to Decenber’s bustling Christmas season. November is the straight rail of a roller coaster between two hills. Oh sure, the month has it’s holidays; Veteran’s Day & Thanksgiving–for one, …
Fall is my preferred season of the year. The cooler temps. The vibrant leaves. The candy…candy corn, in particular. And not just the white, orange & yellow candy corn that’s so common in the aisle. But MY favorite, Harvest Corn, which only makes its appearance in autumn. Harvest Corn, formerly known as Indian …
This is it. A rather subdued celebration of this being My Odd Sock’s 700th post. As low-keyed as the grand opening of yet another Starbucks. Yep, seven hundred. That is CRAZY. I never figured to reach that number when this craggy website first opened for business back in July of 2009. I thought …
I’m all in for better living. So when a new study was released and published, it piqued my interest! The study found that sleeping in the buff is quite beneficial. Apparently ditching your panties & p.j.’s improves your quality of sleep. It helps you fall asleep faster by allowing your body to cool itself …
