Telling our truths, our stories, and accepting each other.
Twinkie Bailout?
Toasting the Twinkie: An American Institution.
Big Storm, Big Heart?
The first thing I did when I woke this morning was check weather online in the cities where my sons attend college. Then I checked the news online, to see what damage Hurricane Sandy’s impacts continued to wreak through the night. I opened a window to access Facebook and read any messages from my boys. […]
Slapped Silly
Imagine my surprise when last evening on Anderson Cooper 360, one of my fave journalists put the final flourishes on his show by talking about getting “punched in the face” – to look younger. That is to say that Cooper’s Ridiculist described a Thai tradition which has recently made the news. It was the subject […]
Skirmishing. Obfuscating. Living a Version of Chaos Theory.
Chaos as lifestyle. Chaos as strategy.
Naked Bodies. Weird News?
I couldn’t resist the headline touting nude bodies as artistic canvas. Let’s face it. Put “naked” or “nude” in a headline and we look. Suggest there are pictures? We definitely look! In fact, this Huffington Post slide show on nude body painting does not disappoint. To utilize the human face or form as a blank […]
Hoarder? Pas Moi. But Don’t Touch My Stuff!
Can’t quite get rid of your stuff, no matter what?
Worried Sick
Have you ever worried yourself sick? To the point where you can’t sleep, you can’t eat, or worse? I have. And more than once. I’m guessing you have, too, though the circumstances may differ. Have you learned to stop that process when you feel it beginning? When fear or worry takes over, can you counterbalance […]
The Splinter
It was an accident. A dropped vase. Broken, mostly in large pieces, but glass shards covered one corner of the kitchen floor. I picked up what I could by hand, careful not to cut myself, then fetched the vacuum. We’re a household that goes barefoot, so I was thorough in cleaning every inch of floor […]
French Vogue Stirs Controversy
A controversial pose, or a Puritanical overreaction?