Wedding Dreams and Nightmares
I have become addicted to two wedding-themed shows on television. The first, Say Yes to the Dress, focuses on the sales consultants and clients of Kleinfeld’s, a renowned bridal salon in New York City. During […]
Category: Lifestyle
My Refrigerator and the Parallel Universe
My coffee creamer had somehow re-located itself to the back of my refrigerator. As I removed the soy milk, the orange juice, the tomato juice, and the ten other items that stood in front of […]
Rant is the New Rage: Plastic Flowers in Gardens
As an avid gardener I love to go out in my gardens and feel the hot sun on my cheeks, (that’s my face cheeks you perverts) and the soft garden soil beneath my feet. I take […]
Old Friends and New Boobs
I had this freckle. Now, I am a fair-skinned person, so I have a ton of freckles, but this one was different. I would never have known it was different if a friend of mine […]
Is that Burning Hair I Smell?
I was having lunch with a friend, and she brought up the topic of her laser hair removal treatments. Now, immediately I became interested as this is the second time in about two weeks the […]
CORPORATE MESSAGING: When a News Item is Really Just More Promotional Junk
There was a news clip on the local ABC affiliate here in Dallas-Ft.Worth, WFAA, on their evening news yesterday that did something that infuriates me. A segment was dedicated to an individual whose passion and […]
The Mom Dance
One day, while I was visiting at my daughter’s college apartment, she and her roommate were telling me how they took their other roommate’s mom out to the bars for some dancing and college decadence. […]
Why Must There Always Be a Big Tease?
While I was in the midst of giving birth years ago, the young medical resident, who was lucky enough to get the Christmas Day shift in labor and delivery, tried to explain to me how […]
From Pez Dispensers to Vibrators: A Museum for Everyone
As I was standing in line at the grocery store, I noticed a Phillies Pez candy dispenser staring at me. Okay, it wasn’t really staring, but it was eye level with me, and the little […]
Fur Flies at the Sonic Drive-In
http://gty.im/141632837 This morning, there seemed to be one crisis after another. I ran out of creamer for my coffee, one of my editors needed to vent at me about another writer, and I had a […]