These days, it seems that everywhere I turn someone is engaging, gestating, and/ or decorating. Another friend of mine is getting married this weekend, GDF and her husband got their house and are decorating, baby shower on my b-day friend had her baby, one of my cousins and his wife are expecting, Mara and her [...]
While outwardly I, and for all appearances- contentedly, sipped my morning coffee from my extra special mug that My Dear Heart picked out for me (oh yes, I have stuff there) and indulged his love of le Tour de France; inwardly things were taking a bit of a different turn. In fact, I felt as [...]
I’m in love, I’m in love! And I don’t care who knows about it! Internets, I tell you, I have my sights set on one thing and one thing in particular. We first set eyes upon one another, so to speak, one lazy afternoon on the eastbound 152. There I sat in the back of [...]
Recently, I was called, albeit in jest (sort of), vanilla. Vanilla. As in, yawn, “boring,” “blah,” “mundane,” “safe,” “meh.” Vanilla. Vanilla. Isn’t that, like, an insult or something? Isn’t being vanilla a bad thing? What is it supposed to mean if I’m vanilla? Am I? And if I am, would I be one of those [...]
My friends at work and I have this little game we play. Every time one of us has a hang nail or a prolonged dry cough or painful stubbed toe, we diagnose one another on WebMD. Invariably, of course, we always end up with a blanket list of diseases: lupus, melanoma, typhoid, gout even. And, [...]
There it sits on the tip of my tongue. I’m on the verge; toes poking out over the edge. Can you tell? We were laughing over ice cream one night. We had gone and gorged ourselves on hot dogs beforehand and somehow rolled ourselves down the street to the Coldstone. And, while I toiled away [...]
Dear Jessica Simpson, I have some thoughts…. First of all, HI! Second, as your ever-so-slight elder, long-time fan, and candid witness to all events paparazzi, I feel it my duty to weigh in on a few key aspects of your career and personal life. Right off the bat, let me just say I very much [...]
