Families are complicated organisms, full of living, breathing parts and each one is as powerful as the one next to it. My family has always been a source of joy and comfort and oftentimes frustration. Lately, it feels like one big pool of never ending drama and I am sometimes afeared of drowning in it.
To [...]

I haven’t had time to share the baby shower stories with you, dear Internet friends. Well, settle in, grab a cocktail, and allow me to set the scene for the “Baby Shower that Almost Wasn’t.”
Saturday, March 5, I get a call reminding me about the baby shower on Sunday and asking if there’s anything I [...]

I don’t often post guest blogs, but this one was so beautiful, I couldn’t resist.
Bear – Here is a “guest blog” for your site:
To my daughter Bearski -
Tis Saturday morning, up at 6:30 after bed at 1:30 because no human being except your mother can sleep through the horrendous “I’m extra quiet in the morning” [...]

This year has been rough. Two dear friends moved to opposite sides of the country, I lost my job, the director of my festival passed away (details on that entire experience in another post), and I’ve been dealing with some rather unpleasant gloom that decided to latch on to me somewhere around mid-April and just [...]

I have been working on updating my Tony posting.  It just takes a while when you’re working with an old machine and limited resources.  (Meaning time.  It’s harder to come by than a string bikini in Iran!)
My point is, thank you for your patience.  Any thoughts on the nominations yet?  I’m curious to see what [...]

When is a fondue party no longer a fondue party? When it becomes a faux bachelorette party, of course!
Allow me to set the scene for you. First, we must take a trip back in time. Back to a simpler era. Back to the days of Nirvana (the group, not the state of mind). Back to [...]

We are living in scary times.  I think we can all agree that things are getting a little harried.  Prices of everything are on the rise and the current state of the world is unnerving at best.  As we enter into the holiday season, it can be easy to let our concerns take over. And with [...]

I’ve been working on a posting about Christmas.  I recently decorated my tree and my house is full to the brim with cookies, but I can’t really bring myself to be too involved in that right now.
I just learned that a coworker of mine has passed away.  I did not know her exceptionally well, but [...]

For months now we’ve heard the Republican campaign try to discredit Barack Obama as a flash in the pan celebrity.  They’ve mocked the DNC’s exuberance (see the comment my father left on this site), and a few months ago McCain was facing negative press as his “Celebrity” ad which compaired Obama to the likes of Brittany Spears and Paris Hilton came [...]

Those of you who took a look at this page in the last hour may have seen a posting in which I responded to the political views of someone I’d never met.  While I never mentioned a name or a direct quote, I used his arguments as a foil to my own without permission. 
I have [...]