Barnabas Collins? He doesn’t make an appearance, but “Dark Shadows” is an apt title for Episode 9 of Mad Men as our favorite characters do battle with their own demons – and lose. I’ll give the Ray of Light Award to Megan, for her maturing mastery of managing between a rock and a hard place, […]
Day Off or Off Day…
I was considering taking a day off. (Hello, Crazy? You there? Think you could manage a little down time?) Then I was thinking maybe I was just having an off day. Another matter entirely. Perhaps if I took the occasional day off, I might have fewer off days. Then again, in reality, I don’t have […]
Happy UN-Mother’s Day
I know, I know. It’s Mother’s Day Weekend, and many of us are gathering around family, specifically our mothers and grandmothers, or our children are gleefully coloring and crafting little gifts to present as tokens of their love. But spending Mother’s Day with the woman who raised you isn’t always possible. For instance, my own […]
The Significance of a Ring
Marital status, marital symbols, and ripple effects we sometimes ignore.
Dear Hillary: Two Words
Dear Hillary, Thank you. Thank you for insisting that your brain and your chutzpah matter more than how you wear your hair or if you’re seen in glasses. Thank you for not taking the bait when it comes to the perpetual picking at your style, rather than your substance. Thank you for the debate that […]
Searching
It is a simple thing. I am searching for a password to an alumnae account so I can update a profile. I am searching for the key, a combination of letters and numbers that resides somewhere on a thumb drive, itself a key. I have only to locate the right one – a small strip […]
Sitting, Gritting, and Admitting
Apparently, we’re doing more to harm our heart health than we realize. At least, so says – or implies – an article on Yahoo Health this morning. Remember the reports that watching television could shorten your life? Yep. That bad Glued-to-the-Tube habit is at the top of the list for harming heart health, along with […]
Mad Men Season 5 Episode 8: Lady Lazarus (Megan Rising?)
If Megan is Lady Lazarus in Mad Men’s Episode 8, does she rise from the brink of metaphorical death of her dream to be an actress? If Don is the eternal Phoenix rising from the ashes, is Lazarus also a reference to his literal brush with death as the SCDP elevator doors open, and he […]
French Style, Election Smile?
Contemporary French interiors suit a French mood…
Surprise, Surprise
No one likes getting caught with their pants down. Well. No one I know, anyway. No one likes being wakened suddenly out of a sound sleep – certainly not by a falling tree, a screaming child, a blaring alarm clock when you thought you could sleep in. No one likes unpleasant surprises, the ones that […]