Half-Pint & Potty-Mouth Jen

This is the week I promised myself I’d read something other than old favourites. With my trusty Kindle collecting books the way black pants collect dog hairs, I’ve been sinking back into familiar loved classics and ignoring the new. So I put aside Jane Eyre to come up for, er, air. I bought two books [...]

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Let Us Speak Of Books

Im in the midst of one of those weeks which are so bad you pray for sleep if only to go to a world that doesn’t have this one in it. Oddly, while I’ve had nightmares galore I don’t think I’ve ever had a dream wherein I’ve had arthritis pain. Sorry. Off topic. The topic [...]

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Your Baby In My Peanut Butter

My husband and I went to a party a few days ago, hosted by people who were friends of his and whom I was meeting for the first time. The party was the end result of two women cooking for 48 hours straight. There were tables laden with food, bottles of wine and a big [...]

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“Six Free Books On Us!”

This is kind of a great time to be alive if you’re a voracious reader. I count myself among those with that affliction, so I’m feeling very blessed these days. Amazon has dropped the price of its Kindle to $299. They’ve got egg on their face from last week’s triumph at the gates of the [...]

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Looks Like My Neighbours Are Back

A few years ago we had some black folk move in right next door. They smell awful, never clean up after themselves and break into my backyard to steal stuff. Back in April I had some friends over for a party and one of them scared my outside-smoking friend half to death. Just the sight [...]

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Medium Crazy

So I woke up this morning from the oddest dream. It was almost like being in the middle of a thrilling novel. Except in this thrilling novel I, along with a handful of other people was flown to an island country under false pretense. They told me I was chosen as the writer for this [...]

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My Mom, The Soylent Green Of Tomorrow

I’m reading through the Dingell, et. al. Health Care reform bill (House 111) because I feel that someone ought to. Many things are standing out to me, but the part that is ringing through my brain and setting my ire alight right now is found in Subtitle C, Section 1233. Advance Care Planning Consultation (p.425 [...]

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The Hate Crime Of Universal Health Care

Last Friday the Tennessean posted an unsigned editorial excoriating the overweight. I refuse to link to the piece, but others have, so if you’d like to read it, feel free to follow the rabbit trail. The shortened version is that people are whining about how bad health care is, but a lot of their problem [...]

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Amazon, Orwell And Captain Jack Sparrow

Yesterday Rachel said she was waiting for my post on this issue. When she said that, I had no idea what she was talking about. She reminded me, and then Rex Hammock Twittered about it and now Aunt B. has written about it as well. It’s a story where I turn out to be one [...]

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Seeing You Hurts Me

Does this ever happen to anyone else? And does anyone else just hate Facebook because of it? There are people–none of whom would ever read this blog, I imagine, who are relics of my past. A past in which I did embarrassing things or behaved in a way that I’d just as soon forget about. [...]

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