First Days
When my daughter was younger, like many parents, we marked important days with a photo. First day of school for every grade, first rock concert, plays, awards and music performances. […]
Tag Archives: childhood
Soft Serve
The street where I grew up boasted a soft serve ice cream stand on the corner called Gigi’s. At Gigi’s you could get vanilla, chocolate or, my favorite, a twist […]
Attention Cranky Hippie Ladies: you are promoting the wrong kind of feminism.
The power to define yourself rather than allowing society to define you by your gender or sexuality is the foundation of feminism. Mean people wear tie dye too. Attention Cranky […]
Beauty Scape
I came very late to the habit of going to the salon. For 30 years I wore my hair very long (and usually pinned up in a bun). For 15 […]
Guest Rant: I Did Not Love My Mother
I re-post this as a salute to my friend who is brave, kind and more than just a pretty-good Mom. A Mother’s Day Essay A Pretty Good Mom An ugly […]
Tradition
Congratulations if you are able to read that word and not hear singing. Unfortunately I both see and hear Topol as Tevye. Always. One of the things that didn’t occur […]
Spring
It is spring where I live which means there is snow on the ground and several more inches threatening this week. This time last year it was 80 degrees and […]
Mental Cliff
Like many people in the US, and around the world, I have been deeply affected by the mass killing of children at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14th. When […]
Wabsy
I just want to say I am disappointed that I did not reach my personal goal for my blog this year. I wanted to have 182 posts in 2012, half […]
Abundance
As many people do we went around the table on Thanksgiving and everyone shared something they were thankful for. There was a general consensus about being thankful for family, friends […]
Perverted
Of all the things going on in the world I don’t know why this one thing made me so sad. Our local paper today picked up a story about Southern […]
Vay Kay
I recently returned from a (somewhat) electronics free vacation. I still had all my devices with me, I just resisted the urge to use them for work purposes. The iPad […]
Round One
My little sister beat me to the punch. After an eleven year hiatus she asked to meet with me to discuss if we could reestablish our sibling relationship. Said meeting […]
Web MD
I confess I am a fan of WebMD. It is an invaluable tool for those among us that embrace self-diagnosis and self-treatment. You just click open that symptom checker and […]
Old Friends
Went to a funeral last night. The grandmother of my oldest friend died at 92. This was the kind of death that people call a relief because she had been […]
