Damn you Bill Clinton!

I mean it. Damn you. You have ruined my day for the last time.

I used to love you Bill. I really did. You with your bedroom eyes and that sexy Arkansas whisper ~ let’s just say you could have had more than my vote.… Read full post »

This morning I was watching Mike & Mike on ESPN and Greeny (Mike Greenberg) was practically glowing as he reported on Yankee, Alex Rodriguez’s recent comments after playing an excellent series against the Minnesota Twins. Greeny was praising A Rod for his Full LaLouche after the sweep.

There’s a piece from that old George Thorogood song "One Bourbon, One Scotch, and One Beer" that I love –

So I go down the streets,
Down to my good friend's house
I said "Look man I'm outdoors you know,
Can I stay with you maybe a couple days?"
He said "Let me go

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The Lost Art of Bedazzling

I love the Bedazzler. What a great way to add new life to something old – and NO, I don’t mean ME. I think adding little rhinestones to the back pocket of my jeans is cool, plus it says, "Look at my ass" without saying, "Juicy."…

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I did it to myself. I should have never started following Roy Blunt (R-Missouri), my congressman.

Initially, I got a chuckle out of his ramblings about having ice cream with his grandkids and such. I found it interesting that he was keeping such a low profile considering he’s about to… Read full post »

Today is September 22 and I am already sick of Halloween. I am sick of triggering that stupid cackling witch in Walgreen’s. I am sick of the 7-foot Mummy at Sam’s Club. I am sick of getting candy corn stuck to the bottom of my foot. I am sick of the… Read full post »

"About Our Children" is a  town hall forum featuring Dr. Bill Cosby and presented by Michelle Bernard that will be aired on MSNBC on September 20, 2009.

Michelle Bernard, President and CEO of the Independent Women’s Forum, will be the moderator of the event which will also host active DNC… Read full post »

MSNBC is going to air a Bill Cosby town hall meeting on September 20 at Howard University that is set to explore poverty in America.  The forum will focus on, "parenting, education and health issues facing the poor in America."

 

Please tell me why MSNBC and Bill Cosby, who be… Read full post »

Dr. Spineless Douchebag, 

I would like to take a moment to say how irritated I am with the postponement of the viewing of the President’s speech today.  I find it very odd that we received such an assuring robo-call from you last week, only to be followed up with a… Read full post »

Yesterday I posted a letter to Joan Walsh asking how she felt about Michelle Bernard appearing on Hardball with Chris Matthews and not being questioned about the breast cancer video ad her orgainization, The Independent Women's Forum, is now running.

In following up, I have discovered something… Read full post »

 Dear Joan,

 I was wondering how you felt about Michelle Bernard appearing on Hardball last night and not being questioned about that breast cancer video ad being circulated by the organization she presides over, the Independent Women's Forum.  Bernard is President and CEO of the… Read full post »

 

 

When I was a very small girl, I fell head-over-heels in love with my Aunt Darcy.  She was much older than my mother, her sister, with jet black hair and overflowing exuberance.  I loved nothing more than a chance to stay at her house in the summer.  She lived beside t/… Read full post »

Recently we've had the "Birther" movement, the "mob rule" healthcare town meetings, and now a guy from Staunton, Virginia has seen fit to film an assassination movie which focuses on the Obama campaign.

The film features four, "down on their luck" individuals that plot to kill Barack Obama during his… Read full post »

     

I recently returned from a splendid vacation on the Redneck Riviera to find my house in complete disarray. I have to admit that the shock of it has been almost more than one perfectly pedicured mother can take.  I understand that trauma, like the one I’ve ex/… Read full post »

     

Tonight I was listening to all of the talking heads on network news talking to all of the talking heads in Washington D. C. and I had a brilliant idea.  What if we put the PTA in charge of national healthcare?  We find the most aggressive and outspoken soccer/… Read full post »

I must live in one of the most homeo-ethnic (is that a word?) areas in the United States:  Southwest Missouri.  The current statistics on our town show us to be 96% white, 0% African American, 2% Hispanic, and 2% Mixed Race.  The county of 116,000 is 94% White, 2% African American,/… Read full post »

Happy Birthday Chicago Guy ~

 

To celebrate your special day, I offer you this ...

your Greatest Hits ... of sorts ~

 

CHICAGO GUY IN SIXTY SECONDS

         

 

In the Night, When No One Else is Listening, I think about My Carbon Footprint… Read full post »

 

I pulled a slick blade across my hand

So quickly I might not have known I did it

But the coolness of the steel inside my warm skin

Electrified my brain

 

And split open my heart

Sending a boiling river of bees

Over the curve of my shoulder

And… Read full post »

 

 

This weekend marks not only 4^th of July, but also the last day of little league.  I know, I know … there’s nothing more American than baseball and the 4^th of July, and for me, celebrating them on the same day is like my two favorite things at once,/… Read full post »

 

I am the official birthday cake baker of my daughter's friends.   Each year, a few more come on board and each year I increasingly want to say, "NO!", and run screaming in the other direction. 

I don't.  I smile and agree and g… Read full post »

       

I always knew that if GLEN BECK and  COMMON SENSE converged that the result would be FICTION!!!

    

 

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One Mom's Thoughts on

The Jonas Brothers World Tour 2009

***with concert pictures

 

On Monday night, I had the pleasure (yes, the pleasure) of seeing The Jonas Brothers World Tour 2009 concert at the BOK Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  I admit that I had my doubts initially and/… Read full post »

 

  

 

Dear Dad,

 

It’s time for a Father’s Day tribute and I’m at a loss.  For one thing, I’ve written about you A LOT and I suspect that most everyone is sick to death of hearing me gush about having such an amazing Dad.  For ano/… Read full post »

 

I found you in my dreams last night. 

 

I’m not sure if it was you or the late spring lightning that woke me,

but I knowingly slipped out of bed and down the hall

in that old Stanford t-shirt I should have thrown out decades ago. … Read full post »

that

love was

a hot summer

happiness lifting

smells of Coppertone

gleaming silver moonlight

reflecting in the rise and fall

rippling on a drought stained river

shushing shrill staccato symphonies

of fat crickets and rusty old john boats

easing and thumping against each other… Read full post »