So, I was at Blissdom this weekend, and the aim was to soak up as much knowledge about the blogging, writing, social media, advertising, and blog whoring as possible.
But, in truth, I had another agenda as my prime focus.
To ask women who are focusing on making money online Just How in The Ever Living Hell [...]

She asked me  not to go into her room until she said it was OK.
I waited.
She said: “You may enter now.”
She was sitting on her pink chair, a pink-jeweled crown atop her head. Long, brown hair flowing at her shoulders.
“Hulll-ooh, I am the Queen,” she said, smiling.
“And, I am your humble servant,” I said, bowing.
She [...]

In the last days of 1989, when I was 22, I wrote a newspaper story quoting experts predicting the trends for the 1990s. Good-bye greedy and mean 1980s, the experts said. Hello, kindness toward man and old person.
Ha! What the hell do experts know? And, certainly, those shoulder-pad, big-hair wearing experts of 1989 did not know about [...]

We had a dinner party for 10 adults and 8 children.
Among us:
A vegetarian who eats fish.
A vegetarian who does not eat fish.
A man who cannot eat dairy.
A man allergic to meat.
A woman allergic to corn.
A child who is allergic to nuts.
A child who was once allergic to nuts.
A perfect snapshot of Modern Living, I think.
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