I'm late to the OS Party, but here goes.  

I don’t tell this story often.  I only tell it to people I really trust, because I’m afraid of being seen as a wacko.  I have enough traits that paint me with that particular brush; I don’t need any extra help. … Read full post »

I am tired. My bones ache, I can’t get rid of this pain in my left temple. My shoulders feel like I’ve been carrying around a 50 pound pack for days. My feet hurt no matter what shoes I wear.  I fight getting up in the morning, on those mornings where… Read full post »

No one understands the plight of the big footed woman.   Most men with normal foot size have no idea how hard it is to find fashionable, reasonably priced women’s shoes above size 10.  I wear a size 11.  I’m also five feet, nine inches tall.   Shoe shopping w… Read full post »

Some kick-hiney writers who have jumped on Dorinda's call and started to write about their Arkansas experience, or just some cool ones who are associated with Arkansas on Open Salon:  

Jodi Katsen

Sister Mary Catfish

hontonoshijin 

Dorinda Fox

Amy Fuji

If I'm mis… Read full post »

Dorinda Fox contacted Amy Fuji and I with the idea to write a series of posts about our shared native state, Arkansas.  It was prompted by something she said in a reply, “Arkansas is such a lovely place as far as physcial beauty but also in its people. I consider it a blessi… Read full post »

From the Saginaw, MI  News:  

THOMAS TOWNSHIP, Mich. – Police say a Michigan man has been arrested after "receiving sexual favors from a vacuum" at a car wash.

The Saginaw News reports the 29-year-old Swan Creek Township man was arrested Thursday in Saginaw County's Thomas Townsh/… Read full post »

For something entirely different, the following is not from a series of anything. It just is.  

Tomorrow night, a friend is checking into rehab. I know exactly what she’ll experience because I have been a patient in the same hospital. The entrance is at the back of a boxy administration… Read full post »

My addition to the cuteness attack -- This is Opal "Donkey" and Dakota "Tiny." Opal gets her nickname from Shrek -- my husband calls all basset hounds "Donkey," as in, you know Shrek's Donkey.   Dakota is a mighty hunter and very, very bad at burying things.  He tries at least once… Read full post »

*Note: My “nieces” are actually my best friend’s daughters. They’ve grown up with me as their second “Aunt,” and I try my hardest to be a good one, when I can see them. They live three hours away, up in Fayetteville. This is the first of a series of letters… Read full post »

 My husband is from stoic Norwegian stock. He was born in Mandan, North Dakota and raised on a farm near Hatton.  Despite the fact that we’re of the same race, and both roughly protestant, a lot of people in the south consider us a “mixed marriage” – Yankee and South… Read full post »

My husband’s a cynic who views this election with the cool eye of a person surprised by nothing.  

I am nothing like him.  As I watched Clinton’s speech last week, I was clapping at the television.  “Damn it, he didn’t go nuts after all! God Bless Bill.&r… Read full post »

I got married for the third time in March, 2008. The fact that I got married again is a miracle. After being married and divorced twice before I was 32 years old, I developed an understandable bitterness. I swore I’d never get married again, that I didn’t need the… Read full post »

I'm really amazed at the response my last post got from this community. Either ya'll are the best blog readers on earth, or I touched a common nerve. I tend to believe it is the former, after reading through Open Salon for a couple of days now. I'm hooked!… Read full post »

Normally, I blog over at my website.  But that blog is mostly about my home state of Arkansas. One thing I try not to do there is to talk too much about my personal life.   It's the sort of blog that people I work with are likely to stumble across.  I… Read full post »