Inga

©2024 I simply refuse to be defeated by sterling silverware.  But so far the tally is flatware 3, Inga 0. We have inherited a set of beautiful sterling flatware from a great aunt of Olof�...

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©2024 OK, so I’m guessing my local readership is a little tired of broken appliances and streetlights at this point.  I get it.  So maybe it’s time for a little lighter fare, like Inga�...

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There really is a streetlight fixture on this pole So after a mere year, I was thrilled to get an Update message from Get It Done saying, Thank you for using Get It Done to report non-emerge...

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©2024 I get that sons need to separate from their mothers. But do they have to be so mean about it? I’m a nice person. So I wasn’t prepared for the fact that as my sons approached their...

http://www.ingatellsall.com/2024/02/waiting-it-out.html

©2024 The recent rains have highlighted the unique habits of a breed of canine known as The Southern California Dog.  Our bichon-poodle mix, Lily, is in this category. The Southern Califor...

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©2024 As much as I enjoy the late-19th century show The Gilded Age, I can’t help but be preoccupied by what had to be the sheer discomfort of those corset- and bustle-afflicted dresses. Tak...

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2024 When you find yourself writing about ice cubes, is it time to hang it up? I m aware I've written about appliances a lot lately because, well, failing appliances have been sucking up an ...

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©2024 Rideshares have enjoyed mixed reputations in recent years but compared to the olden days when the only other options were taxis, they’ve been a huge boon to the elderly.  I can’t...

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2024 It becomes increasingly worrisome to me that I couldn't identify half of the Christmas gifts that were exchanged Christmas morning, even ones that I gave. Fortunately, I didn't have to ...

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2023 I recently wrote about how much poorer the quality of kitchen appliances has become, the compensation being a lot of useless features that many people (that would be me) don't even want. ...

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©2023 In December, my birth month, I can’t help but reflect that birthday gifts from spouses can be fraught with peril.  Not to speak ill of the dead, but my first husband was notorious ...

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2023 For my 500th Let Inga Tell You column (yes, it really is), I had to ask myself: could I have saved a lot of time if the AI bot Chatgpt had come out sooner? Inquiring minds (mine) really w...

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2023 In 1999 we remodeled our tiny 1947 kitchen. It was a huge boon to have more than a single 100-watt light bulb, to have a dishwasher that you didn't have to roll over to the sink, and to b...

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2023  The downside of living in the same house for decades is that you never do the aggressive culling of your belongings that moving generally requires. But it also gives you the opportunity...

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©2023  If it’s fall, it’s time for pumpkin spice overload, an invasion of spider webs, lots of soccer games, and if you’re a high school senior, the dread college application process.�...

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2023 Some years back, I won a First Place prize in the annual San Diego Press Club Excellence in Journalism Awards for a column entitled :How an engineer makes cookies."   It chronicled an u...

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2023 I remember reading in some long-ago anthropology class that some Eskimo cultures, not wishing to waste precious food resources on non-productive elders, set them adrift on an ice floe, an...

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2023 I've often reflected while reading the morning paper that it's a good thing I have my current gig with the La Jolla Light because I would make an absolutely terrible advice columnist. My ...

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2023 I failed in a hundred ways with my kids. If you asked them what my worst mistakes were, they d reply, "Alphabetically or chronologically?" But the one thing I feel I did right a legacy of...

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2023 I would rather get a root canal and a colonoscopy simultaneously than get a new cell phone. And no, I am not kidding. I had genuinely hoped I would die before my phone did. But the phon...

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2023 Both Olof s and my parents were such proponents of child labor that it is probably a good thing there were no coal mines within commuting distance to our homes. There was pretty much no e...

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©2023 I recently wrote about my role as the family worrier, and from the response, I learned that I have plenty of company.  And that the worrier in families is, by my unofficial data, the w...

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©2023 The good news, our primary care physician informed us, is that we have officially aged out of early-onset afflictions. As you get older, one less thing you can die of is good news ind...

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©2023 Just when you think the city parents can’t make any worse decisions (SB 10, anyone?), they propose a law shifting a backlog of 37,000 sidewalk repairs (and the estimated $183 million ...

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©2023 Now that all the local high schools have graduated, I can safely tell the saga of a friend’s teenage daughter who has a serious future in spin.  In fact, if I were a political organi...

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