Steel Reserve

Yesterday, or was it the day before?, I got my first taste of hate mail, from a delightful troll named “Joenunya.” Joe kindly pointed out on my post about being snowed in that I was a) high maintenance, b) lazy and therefore should be deserted by my husband and c) probably fat based on the [...]

Shit that happened while I was snowed in

Interneeeeet! What up? You’d think that while I was chillaxin’ with my homies snowed in for the last four days that I would have churned out post after intelligent post. You’d be wrong. I’m going to make a list now that will enlighten you about what I’ve been doing since Friday night’s crippling dusting of [...]

Mama needs an easy button

I’m feeling a bit contemplative today, partly because I know I’ll be snowed in this weekend, and partly because it’s Friday and I have nothing better to do. There was an article this morning on Good Morning America’s website about a recent study done on women over the age of 30 in the UK. The [...]

The one where life goes on and someone forgot to tell us

We are sitting in the middle of the floor, in folding chairs in the middle of a row of people whose faces I never even noticed. It is dark, except for the stage, lit up with single harsh lavender bulbs here and there to show her at the piano. She is singing, her background singer [...]

Weekend in 5

5. Brian watched Hitchcock’s Notorious for the first time, and we discovered that Ingrid Bergman’s accent is like Ambien for cats.
4. On the same day I found a new home for a cat, a dog bit me because I came up on its blind side. Also in the same day, I watched the movie Blind [...]