Okay, okay. here are some prettier items...

I didn't abandon my flowers completely. I just went on a substantial tangent. Oh, and I actually sold something! It's my first sale that was from the marketplace at Cafepress, and not the result of my mother. :) I love you Mom!

So, by less than popular demand...

I created the t-shirt!

I'm a granny driver and proud of it!

Many of you who know me, know that I'm, well, a granny driver. You know, that person who doesn't really go above the speed limit and stays in the same lane the entire time she's on the highway?

That's me.

Now, I used to be ashamed of my granny-driver status. But no more!

Why, you ask?

One simple fact. (or at least my poetic understanding of whatever my engineer sister told me about cars/engines/gas mileage.)

When you don't brake as often, you increase your gas mileage. So by staying steady at 55 or 65 mph, I use less gas.

So--whatever your ideologic refrain, anyone can get behind the granny driver movement!

Benefits of being a granny driver

Saving the environment
Reducing dependence on foreign oil
Sticking it to big oil
Creating a smaller pocketbook dent

and well, because I'm a rehab physician, and have over the course of these 4 years seen every bad consequence of every risky thing there is to do out there, I have to add that it must be true that car accidents at slower speeds cause fewer morbidities (and hopefully driving at slower speeds causes fewer accidents.)

So, now instead of being ashamed of my granny-driverness, I revel in it! (okay, maybe not, but still...)

Join the granny driver movement!

(I might even make t-shirts! :)