I love words! I am rarely at a loss for something to say, I can have a conversation with a stop sign, am addicted to any word game "with friends", and get a weird satisfaction from finding just the right way to articulate something for myself or others. But a blog? About Olives? I'm not quite sure how to do that!

I certainly have a lot to talk about; just ask my children who are tortured having to spend endless kid mome...