• Relaxing into Reality

    Okay. What the heck does that title mean? In some ways, offering an explanation is contrary to its very meaning. Any definition seems like…

  • Bitch blog?

    I was just thinking about blogging. About the purpose of blogging, for the blogger. Bitch about the state of the world? Kvetch about daily…

  • N.O.M.B.

    I came up with this acronym a few years ago when I was trying unsuccessfully to separate from my post-college, capable, adult daughters. They…

  • Hypochondria, Goddess of F-f-fear!

    My first hypochondriacal tendency can be traced back to my twenties when I started to imagine every headache was a brain tumor.  I didn’t…

  • Pollyanna was no Pollyanna

    “Don’t be a Pollyanna!”  “She’s such a Pollyanna!”  Ever heard these exclamations before?  Usually they refer to someone who is way too 1)obnoxiously cheerful,…

  • Mississippi Ippississim!

    When I was a kid, I loved spelling Mississippi forwards and backwards, over and over again. All those s’s and i’s and p’s! They…

  • Atonement?

    Yom Kippur tonight. My husband will start fasting. Despite being a self-proclaimed atheist, he still observes this ritual. He says he does it to…

  • IT IS WHAT IT IS!

    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…

  • 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…

  • 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…