4:59am: If I’d had to get up this early for my own wedding, I’d still be single… 5:00: I wish I had a hat. It would look awesome with my jammies. 5:01: FYI, I’m watching this on Public Television. To avoid the ads and also because there is a not a single newscaster on any [...]

My cousin had that same wedding dress! Did you get it at David’s one-day sale? Where are the couple registered? Hello, Mr. Trump. We’re so glad you could come. Did anyone remember to call the paper to place the wedding announcement? Welcome to the family, Katherine. I hope you’re as happy as William’s mother and [...]

So. I got an anonymous comment on my post yesterday. It was…gross. I left it up so you can read it if you want, though I wanted to delete it on sight. But it leads me to a topic that matters a lot. The commenter was sharing a ridiculous but not unique line of thinking [...]

Memorandum To: Donald Trump From: Mom-in-a-Million Re: Your Presidential Aspirations Date: April 26, 2011   It has come to my attention that you are growing increasingly serious in your bloviating about a run for the Presidency in 2012. When you first started discussing this, I was under the impression that you were merely behaving in [...]

I got unfollowed on Twitter one night last week. This is not unusual. Twitter is like a giant, continuous conversation and people tune in and out to one another all the time. What was different about this incident was that the person sent me a tweet to let me know that she was unfollowing and [...]

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I have two posts today. This one, with a lot of my favorite local things listed. And another one that’s a totally snotty list of things I wish I could say when tourists are particularly rude or clueless. That one is password protected because the last time I wrote a tongue-in-cheek post about tourists, I [...]

I was recently having an email exchange with a reader who had left some critical comment here at the old blog. We were having what I consider to be a fairly interesting discussion about the scope of government and the relative merits of recent Presidents. Then she said this: I feel that all citizens should [...]

I didn’t really intend to watch Extreme Couponing. In large part, I objected to use of the word “coupon” as a verb. Not. A. Verb. “Couponing” therefore is not a real word. The proper way to verbally characterize the act of clipping and using coupons is to say “clipping or using coupons”. There’s no need [...]

It’s tax day*! Yaaaayyyyy! I love taxes!  Ok, maybe love is too strong a word. I respect taxes and I don’t mind paying them. Like most people, I pay federal and state income taxes. They come right out of my paycheck alongside my Social Security and Medicare contributions. I also pay a county tax that [...]