I'm a DC-area mother with an over-developed sense of irreverence, ADD, socialist tendencies and a blog. All my opinions are entirely my own and not representative of anything officially sanctioned by any political party, my mother, or arbiters of common sense and good taste.
So I’ve been trying to get more fabulous. You can read all about it here. And I have succeeded if by “success” you mean “failure”. Let’s re-cap, shall we? Exercise: For about three weeks I was doing a good job of loading episodes of True Blood onto my iPhone and trekking down to the gym in my office a few times a week. I wore some of those butt toning shoes and broke a light…
I didn’t marry young. As a result I saw some of the world and kept company with an assortment of people in my younger days. There were a lot of laughs then and some tears. As anyone who loved before can tell you, my mind is now a puppet theatre of memories, cast with walking shadows, strutting and fretting in the fog of my past. One of those shadows is gone. I found out a…
47 years ago today, a great man said great things. Here they are and thank you Dr. King. *** “I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope…
Jenny the Broke Foodie and I go waaaayyyyyy back. I think we were in our teens when we met. We were certainly in college. She did not cook in those days. Or maybe she did but I was too drunk to notice. Hard to say. College was like that. Also, she and I were usually in spaces with no kitchens such as rehearsal spaces and dressing rooms of our theatre department, which means that Jenny…
Mama Kat s leading me down memory lane this week. 1.) Your childhood neighborhood. I could on on forever. My childhood neighborhood was idyllic. Leafy suburban streets, walking distance to one of the top high schools in the state, if not the nation. Neighbors who all knew each other and barbequed together in the summer. We Christmas caroled. There was an annual neighborhood parade. There was an annual block party. There were occasional keg parties…
I have, in recent months, developed an unhealthy relationship with HGTV. It started out innocently enough when my sister called me one night to tell me that the episode of House Hunters she was watching was taking place in my neighborhood. We flipped it on and, lo and behold, the house hunter was an acquaintance of ours! How cool! And we were house hunting so it was like HGTV was doing things just for us…
This week is teacher development week at C’s daycare so the whole family is taking a break for the week. The need for a break has been evident as the two adults inthe family have been taking almost as many naps as the resident toddler. The Great Guy I Married is still recovering from jet lag after 12 action-packed days touring two different African nations. I’m suffering from husband-in-Africa induced exhaustion. The end result is…
I am writing this review before finishing the final book in the series which is difficult partly because I don’t know if the ending of the trilogy will be satisfactory and also because I am rushing through the review to get back to reading the final book. I’m actually mad at myself right now because I took a long nap Sunday afternoon and missed out on two whole hours of reading time. The books in…
Dear Dr. Frank Ryan, You are probably reading this blog from the afterlife which means there is Wifi in the afterlife. That is excellent news as it means there are also blogs in the afterlife. Who needs an afterlife if you can’t read Go Fug Yourself there? But you, sir, are in the afterlife for probably the stupidest reason ever. You drove off a cliff. Because you were distratced behind the wheel. Because you were…
I just heard that Brett Favre could earn as much as $20,000,000 to play football this season. Twenty. Million. Dollars. To throw a ball. That got me thinking. What would $20,000,000 buy? 100,000 pap smears 10,000,000 school lunches 400 annual salaries for teachers A year’s in-state tuition and fees for 2,000 students at the University of Maryland 298 annual salaries for registered nurses A year of health insurance for 1111 families Prenatal care for 10,741…
