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 […]
Mermaids in Our Midst: The Diary of a Mother’s Mythical Delusions
When Tat’s mother found out she was pregnant she was in a mental institution for depression and suffered from schizophrenic hallucinations. She truly believed she was a mermaid. Every day she’d take long baths and […]
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 […]
Drawing a Line in the Sand on Tax Cuts for the Wealthy
As jobs are being cut for lack of revenue in states, millionaires and billionaires are increasing their revenue due to gaping loopholes in state tax structures. I wrote a piece earlier this month here about how […]
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 […]
Do You Suffer From Paronomasia?
I just learned that I suffer from paronomasia. Actually, I may cause more suffering than I experience myself, since this “disease” is the act of punning! I was raised in a liberal environment where punning […]