New Year’s Resolutions
So, Maria has started school. The First Grade. Oh, what a big, big girl… I realized this week, as I dropped her off, that in the three years she has been in school, my New Year’s Resolutions kick in. I don’t wait until January. My constant list: I will finally finish the scrapbooks I will [...]
Regrowth.
I have been told it takes guts to cut off your hair. I guess it does. Honestly, for me, it takes more guts to walk around in a ponytail all the time. I have felt dragged down by the pelo, so off it came. I feel lighter, happier, hipper…and when you’ve just turned 43, hip [...]
Spanx, Shaved Heads and Da Shore
If there was a trend at my high school reunion it was Spanx and Shaved Heads. Oh, and a lot of Lime played by the DJ. It was an uproariously good time. I will spare you details, because what do you care, right? But, I have to say, there is something extra cool about looking [...]
Class of ’85 Reunion. 25 Years Already? How’d That Happen So Fast?
When we went on vacation last month, the neighbor girl took care of the cat, the guineas and the garden. As I handed her instructions and the keys, I told her that in 25 years it will be her telling the just-graduated-from-high-school-kid how to feed the cat and water the ferns. She laughed. My wheels [...]
When Too Much Computer Time Makes you Suck at What Matters Most
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 [...]
She is Queen
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 [...]
A Decade in Review
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 [...]
Observations on a Life
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 [...]








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