I’ve been hearing this expression for weeks now — IT IS WHAT IT IS.Followed by a shrug and a sigh. It’s pretty apparent people aren’t saying this because everything is hunky dory and coming up roses. No. Whether “it” is the hot mess in Congress or L.A. traffic or losing all the data on your […]
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NANOWRIMO, BABY!
November is National Novel Writing Month! And I’m in the third week of attempting to write 50,000 words by November 30th! So why am I even writing here in this blog right now? I’m only up to 20,015 and I am way behind the daily quota to achieve such an awesome goal! What an experience […]
PROJECT RUNWAY FINALE (Season 8)
Mondo! You were robbed! But you will survive! Because you are incredibly talented and honest and unique! I really don’t understand what was going in in the heads of Nina Garcia and Michael Kors. I mean, GRETCHEN?!? I would have preferred Andy. His stuff is better than Gretchen’s. Gretchen’s overblown sense of her own importance […]
MAD TEA PARTY
Yes, those Tea Partyers are MAD. As in CRAZY NUTS INSANE! Don’t they realize that GOING BACK is not an option? Like Alice, I feel like I’m sitting at a table of spinning cups and steaming teapots where nothing makes sense anymore. As the daughter of an FDR devotee, I still believe our government can […]
GOOD GRIEF
Fall has arrived, and with it, an elegiac undercurrent in my psyche. It’s been 45 years since my father succumbed to esophogeal cancer, but I can still feel the sense of loss in this season, and especially now that I am ten years older than my father was when he died. He had been diagnosed […]
30 YEARS AGO…
…my body brought forth on this continent a new baby, conceived in love, and dedicated to being absolutely, positively, and amazingly HERSELF. Jon and I are fairly dazed today, wondering how fast the time has gone since that August 22nd in 1980 when she who was breech was pulled from my belly (he watched the […]
CRUELTY, THY NAME IS BLOOD
I don’t know why this word has been chasing me around all week…like the Furies with Orestes. CRUELTY. Apparently CRUEL comes from CRUDE which is derived from some other root meaning BLOOD. And there are two definitions. The first is knowingly inflicting pain on others. The second is enjoying inflicting pain on others. Sadism, in […]
4th of July a.k.a. Independence Day
We’re going to brunch, yes, brunch, at my in-laws. No barbecue. No fireworks. Not that I really care. My community goes ape-shit every 4th, starting with a 10K race at 8 p.m., a major parade down Sunset Blvd. in the afternoon, and fireworks at Pali High’s football field at night. One year my husband and […]
DERMIS DILEMMA
10:45 – I am looking at myself in a magnifying mirror in my dermotologist’s office. EEEEK!!!! It’s as if a witch put a spell on me and made me look…like her! There, peering back at me, is the crepe-y, lined, wrinkled skin known as My Face, surrounded by brochures for Botox, Juvaderm, and Restalyne. I […]
GUILT BEGONE!
The other day I decided I wasn’t going to feel guilty. About ANYTHING. I would just go about my day, taking life as it presented itself. I didn’t have to accomplish anything in order to earn the right to breathe. It was amazing to me how much my mind resisted this laissez-faire attitude! Call it […]
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