Archive for April, 2008
Covering My Tracks
I did something yesterday I didn’t think I’d ever do. My pal Erin spontaneously said, “Let’s go shoe shopping!” That’s not the thing I thought I’d never do. Shopping is not the thing I thought I’d never do. And shopping with Erin has become a treat that’s all-too rare now, as we both try hard [...]
Read More..>>A Star Has Fallen
Yes, I’m heading toward my own divorce but that doesn’t mean I can’t have a few hearty laughs at the misery of one egomaniacal, preachy, holier-than-thou, judgmental Star Jones. Frankly, she’s old enough to know better.(She and I were born in the same year!) And she horrified anyone with an ounce of sense when she [...]
Read More..>>Failing The Cosmo Girl Test
Back in the day when I was a Cosmo Magazine devotee, before I figured out it was all about telling me I would never be good enough and advising me on how to “trap” a man, I absorbed a lot of what Helen Gurley Brown and her staff had to say. One of the Cosmo rules I [...]
Read More..>>Go Away, Caller
This is a first. Jehovah’s Witnesses made a thinly veiled telemarketing call to me yesterday. Some woman from a blocked number left a message, inviting me to a local Kingdom Hall. Why me? What in the name of everything holy would lead anyone to believe that I would be even a little bit interested in [...]
Read More..>>Spring Fever, Unlike Any Other
It has hit – a serious case of spring fever. I want to frolic! I want to be outside, doing just about anything that one can possibly do outside. I’m living in a condo (aka the shoebox) so I don’t have a garden. I’m halfway through a non-extendible lease, so I’m not about to start [...]
Read More..>>Home of Their Dreams
The baseball diamond of my youth is being turned into a new housing development. It makes me shake my head, not because another relic from my childhood will soon be gone. I don’t think I ever even hit one of my very rare home runs there. But now that it’s going to be home to just another [...]
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