Immortality and Christmas Lights

12.06.2010

Now everyone knows, men and women never agree on the amount or placement of tree lights, but every year I would optimistically forget this.

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Dancing to the Beat of A Deeper Drum

11.29.2010

I’m dancing to my own drummer these days. I’m still not wearing any more makeup than I did years ago. I write with an obvious lack of restraint and share unmentionable stories, all of which surely won’t endear me to the right kind of man.

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My Mother Called Today

11.22.2010

I’m sure she expected me to jump in the car and dash the eight hours down to get her a blasted purple cellular phone but, being the techno-savvy person I am, I suggested we sign on to her account to get her an upgrade.

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Jane’s World-Famous Award-Winning Best-Ever Pecan Pie

11.15.2010

6. Stir in the vanilla (did I mention that you should never ever use anything but Real Vanilla as the Imitation stuff tastes like shit and why would you want to spoil your cooking thusly?)

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Pretty, the second season

11.02.2010

Guilt-free sloshing in the barrel of kiddie beauty pageants with all the attendant political incorrectness you could ever hope for.

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Election 2010: The Rant

10.31.2010

Protest voters. “Throw the bums out. Anyone but someone who’s in office.” You’re the ones who voted for Ralph Nader and got us instead George Bush. Thanks a bunch.

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Planning For The Rest of My Life

10.25.2010

Part of that personal plan is going to address my new status as a single woman. I’ve been here several times in recent years and one would think I’d have the whole without a man thing firmly in control by now. Alas.

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Great Minds Think Alike–or, I Don’t Own My Words

10.17.2010

I had some fond, perhaps archaic feelings about my ideas and the words I used to express them–before the internet existed, before everyone and their uncle was a blogger…

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The Dreaded Decision: Putting a Parent in a Nursing Home

10.11.2010

But when he left the gas stove on for the fourth time, I knew something had to change.

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The Four Quadrant Movie: Secretariat

10.06.2010

The hero is a stallion, the heroine is a housewife with four kids and the villain is a mouthy man who gets his comeupance. If that’s not a Four Quadrant movie, I don’t know what is.

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