Saturday’s show is up now at www.thislife.org – the last segment in the “Social Engineering” show from June 27 is Sophie’s. I haven’t tried it (um, no thanks, don’t want to hear the sound of my own voice again — don’t you hate that?) but looks like you can just click and listen.
I was bad today. No, I didn’t exceed my Weight Watchers points. I went to Last Chance. As we like to say in these parts, you only get one Last Chance — and it’s in Phoenix. For reasons I can’t remember, but at one point long ago did actually report, Nordstrom put its clearance center […]
Tonight we saw WALL-E — a rare, special occasion, for the four of us to make it to the big screen together. Ray had a Coke, I had a Diet Coke, Annabelle had an Icee and Sophie had apple juice. Halfway through the movie, Annabelle stage-whispered, “I dropped my straw!” I took mine out of […]
This week we discovered the double-messy bun(s). On the day this photo was taken, Sophie also had her shorts on backward (she knew, she insisted) and I worried that I’d really gone over the edge with the whole “I’ve gotta be me, I’ve gotta be free!” approach to childish expressions. But she actually got a […]
Last night, the girls and I made an impromptu trip to the bookstore to buy my friend Laurie Notaro’s new book, “The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death: Reflections on Revenge, Germaphobia, and Laser Hair Removal” (info at www.laurienotaro.com). The book had been released just that day, and I had to grab it […]
Ok, I promised to explain my birthday neurosis. I don’t remember much about my own birthday parties, growing up. But I do recall my 7th — celebrated at Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlour. Where else? When some other party ordered The Zoo and the guys raced around the restaurant with it — bells banging, sirens blaring […]
One of my favorite writers (full disclosure, a former student, but I swear, she already knew it all before she took our class) has a blog with a great name: aarpmom.blogspot.com Check it out. Mary Ellen is hilarious, but in a wonderfully mellow way I can only aspire to. Here’s a sample, from her own […]
Not long after Ray and I moved in together, I turned to him one morning as we were waking up and said, “Every day with you is like Christmas.” True, sometimes life feels a little more like the mad run up to the big day or the letdown you feel right after, or one of those ugly […]
I’m reminded this morning that there are some things in life you just shouldn’t try to do quickly. One is shave your legs. The second is blog. At least, blog about anything of substance. As I fell asleep last night, my last thought — as the People magazine fell from my hand — was, “I […]
I’m not sure who Shakira is. That’s how dumb I am. And the worst part is that I should know who Shakira is, since I have a People magazine waiting by my bed. (I even subscribe, for crying out loud.) I think she’s a singer. Anyhow, apparently she’s a rocket science and I’m spending too […]
