Archive for November, 2007
Women’s Liberation
Some days it can be darn depressing to be a woman when our sisters in other countries are still being treated like chattel and fourth-class citizens. We count ourselves fortunate to enjoy the status we have but these stories remind us we’re never that far removed from our fore-sisters who were under the thumbs of [...]
Read More..>>A Crue-l Year
I’m enthralled by Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx’s book, The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star.
It’s 1987. Motley Crue is on the verge of peaking in fame, money and debauchery. Sixx is addicted to heroin and thinks cocaine and Jack Daniels are as harmless as candy. He’s in a [...]
Playing “Condo Chicken”
I’ve been playing a dangerous game with my dignity and I know I’m going to get caught one of these days. But I can’t seem to stop. I’m hooked on the risk! I’ve never bungee jumped or sky-dived but this is just as risky, to me, and I’m calling it “Condo Chicken”.
Here’s what I do. [...]
A Second Childhood, and A Third and…
Some people find their inner child easily. For others, it doesn’t come as naturally. I have lost close touch with my inner kid in recent years and recently I’ve enjoyed getting to know her again, the little scamp!
Today, all it took was a can of Alphaghetti. I have vivid memories of my high school best [...]
It’s A Girl Thing
I wasn’t looking to replace them. I wasn’t searching for boots at all. But there they were, just sitting all adorable in an open box, shiny and alluring. “They” are my new shortie, fake croc, dark brown boots and what’s special about them is that they’re awfully darn close to looking like a previous pair [...]
Read More..>>It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like…
The holiday work schedule is up. Rogers’ trees are in the hallways and all decorated and the wreaths are on the walls between the elevators. One of the local FM radio stations is already into its “we’re the first to go all Christmas music” thing – the very thing that removed them from my preset [...]
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