I need not ever remind myself of my age. I am as old as the anniversary of JFK's death. Over twenty years ago I realized that my very first cognizant memory was of my mother weeping while his funeral was broadcast on our television, halfway round… Read full post »

Or in the night, imagining some fear,

How easy is a bush supposed a bear!

A few years ago I was working on a farm in Ireland.  I'd been to Europe and the UK numerous times but this was my first experience on the Emerald Isle and, since I was living on a family farm, I was truly immersed in the culture.

 Just as in the… Read full post »

1. Who was your FIRST prom date?

I think his name was Brian.

2. Who was your FIRST love and do you still talk with him/her? 

His name was Bruce, and I recently… Read full post »

I just read Mishima666's excellent post about unemployment.The humiliation of the inane applications,the crazy demands for qualifications that are not even remotely relevant to the positions one is applying for,the trite answer so often given when one does not get the job, the classic,"sorry but you'… Read full post »

The train wreck that is Jon and Kate has come completely off the rails.  The farce foisted upon the American public by this greedy exploitative couple has run out of steam.  It appears obvious that the marriage has ceased to exist for well over six months, and th… Read full post »

If you were living in America and didn't know who Farrah Fawcett-Majors was in the 1970s, then you must have been  off the grid somewhere in the wilds of Alaska. The woman was a sensation, bursting on the scene as an original cast member of the Aaron Spelling, ABC… Read full post »

I once had sex with a handsome stranger in the bathroom of a fancy restaurant, while my boyfriend sat waiting for me at the table.  

It is true.  Quickies are not my style, as a general rule, but rules are made to be broken and there… Read full post »

I once found a bale of cocaine floating in the ocean, and then buried it beneath the sand of an uninhabited island.

I once had sex with a handsome stranger in the bathroom of a fancy restaurant, while my boyfriend sat waiting for me at… Read full post »

It's Saturday night, and prompted by the good natured ribbing I've gotten from some of our more, ahem, creative members, I was prompted to take a stroll down memory lane.  Saturday Night Live was never more fun than in the booze swilling, coke snorting 70s and 80s.  Sadly, some did not… Read full post »

Let me preface this by saying that I am not writing this out of some sort of sour grapes mentality, or a childish haranguing for recognition.  I'm not.  

 I have solved one of the great riddles of OS.  I have figured out why some posts are elevated to covers… Read full post »

Kaitlin arrived in Australia numb.  The phone call in Chicago had been so bizarre, beyond belief bizarre, that the vodkas and valium had failed to erase the memory of her sister's words.  I imagine the conversation went something like this.

"Kait, remember how Mum disappeared when w… Read full post »

I'm an only child and all of my life I've wished I had at least one sibling and preferably more.  Wishing isn't enough and at the age of 46 I've come to terms with my onliness and recognize that I have this to thank for the fact that,… Read full post »

We are on the brink of a glorious spring.  Forget about the dim financial news, the important thing is you got up today, took yourself to the toilet and you're breathing.  The rest of it will fall into place.  

Spring.  Makes me want to dance around and… Read full post »

 Newport, Rhode Island

I've come to the conclusion that, for most of us, untimely death is most likely to strike when we least expect it.  "Of course it is," you say to yourself, "it is untimely after all."  But what I mean by this is that we are more… Read full post »

Hope you enjoy this eclectic collection.  

 Photographers are many.  Music is by Gomez, "How We Operate."

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Inspired by Monte Canfield I thought, why not make this a musical Sunday?  In case you didn't know Monte posted on his blog what might be the single most beautiful piece of music, ever.   Check it out.

The two pieces I offer for your listening… Read full post »

It was a sparkling sunny day in the middle of winter, a brief reprieve from the damp gray days that were the norm in her part of the world.  She was on her way home from the mall where she had been shopping not for herself, but for the baby that… Read full post »

It appears that youtube had to pull the clip I had here, terribly sorry.

I have managed to find a clip of the last 20 minutes of the film, scroll down! 

I can't remember the first time I saw this film, sometime in the 70s I… Read full post »

“When I saw you I fell in love,

and you smiled because you knew.”

William Shakespeare

Her name was "Isabella" and it was rare if she wasn't the finest classic beauty wherever she traveled.  A beautifully designed wooden schooner, her sleek lines and… Read full post »