You know when you’re sitting and waiting, and there’s nothing you can do? You know what I mean – one of those situations that’s entirely beyond your control. It happened to me last evening when my site went down for a few hours, due to something that came up with my provider and required a […]
Archives for 2011
Food, Glorious (Healthy) Food – And On A Budget
Food that is affordable, healthy, and glorious!
Jennifer Lopez – “Feeling Good”
I couldn’t resist this headline: “Jennifer Lopez says she’s happy” – with a quick summary that took me to a longer article reporting that JLo says she “feels good.” Hey, I didn’t write it, and I don’t believe it. Do you? But I clicked on the article all the same, and then I read, and […]
Why We Sometimes Pick a Fight
Fighting, when we don’t mean to.
Guy Talk
Guys and cars. Foreign language, if you ask me…
The Itch
London. San Francisco. Paris, of course. Mentions of Melbourne, moments in Mexico, photographs of Phoenix. Even if I never leave my little burg (of several million), I’m inclined to play the part of an armchair voyager, bound for locales that I’d like to visit, and others where I’ve lived and I dream of returning. And […]
Appealing to Audience Appetites
Zeal and appeal over keeping it real?
Women, Education and Parenting: Tough Choices, No-Brainers
Work. Kids. Priorities…
JLo? Really?
Celebrity divorce news is hardly news. It seems that so-called Hollywood power couples jump in and out of marriages (and engagements, for that matter) the way most of us switch diets. The most recent split to catch my eye? Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony of course, announced earlier this week. Somehow this marital meltdown seems […]
Apathy Into Action
It’s Saturday morning. It’s raining. I’d love to linger in bed and turn my daily writing exercise to flights of fancy, or the latest tales of teenage folly around my little household. But given the discussion this past week – of very real and pressing social ills that affect millions of us – I prefer to point […]