1.You have an alter ego “Emileeeeeee Mcpheeeeee”. Is there anything she will do that you won't?

I adopted Emileeeeee a couple of years ago after something tragic in my life happened. I needed a third voice to tell my tales, as if I told them myself, no one would believe me. Emileeeeee takes the crap, the abuse, the sadness of past lives, and puts it all in a strainer to sift it all and figure it out. I cannot, nor will I do that. She is a life saver.



2. You posted a blog post about who will bury you, yet you have two sons. Isn't it sort of their job?

I had this discussion with Steve at a Memorial Service on Saturday. I do not want to be buried. I want to be cremated. I want no fanfare, nor after "tea with cookies" either. I do not want anyone, including family responsible for things like this.When I die, that is the end. Or is it? I want as little sadness as possible. I have been through it too many times with members of my family, I do not want any of mine to suffer like I did. It was almost like Groundhog Day.


3. Oscar Wilde said that “Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.” As a fashionista, do you agree?

I used to be the Queen of the fashionistas. Now I am the peasant stock. It was "the altering" that got me. Although I loved clothes I was being someone I was not.


4. You have a Boston Terrier and a French Bulldog. Why those breeds, and why two breeds, not one?

Those two cutie pies actually belong to my son and daughter in law. They are my grandchildren. They loved both breeds and might breed them. Their offspring will be a breed called "Frenchtons". I kid you not.


5. Jeff Bridges or Beau Bridges?

Jeff all the way..Dude... how can you ask me that?

{I figured if Michelle Pfieffer had a tough choice in The Fabulous Baker Boys...}

6. As the owner of the definitive pink frying pan let me ask you this: Jayne Mansfield said that “ A woman should be pink and cuddly for a man.” what do you think she means? Is this relevant in the 21st Century?

To me it means "all access". I do not care for that. I am feminine and love being a woman, but I like to plow my own way down the road with my pink frying pan in hand for those who try and stop me.

7. Your first blog post was “The Imperfect Storm”. Have you seen “The Perfect Storm”? If so, what's your opinion of it?

Brian, I do not know where you got this question from but it hit me in the gut. I am petrified of "big water". If you read one of my past blogs you will read where I think I am reincarnated from a past live where the girl drowned at age 9. I have watched the end of that movie at least a dozen times. It is the part where Mark Wahlberg is floating in that rough sea and the huge wave that is going to suck him up is coming. That to me, is my silent doom.

8. C.S. Lewis wrote “"Smelling isn't everything" said the Elephant. "Why," said the Bulldog, "if a fellow can't trust his nose, what is he to trust?" "Well, his brains perhaps," she replied mildly.” what are we to take from this?


I follow my nose and go with my brain last. Always riding by the seat of my pants. That is what I read from it. They knew me well.:)

9. You blogged on your frustration with following True Blood. Did Anna Paquin's  “I am bisexual” moment affect your viewing pleasure?

My OS pal Lemonpulp knows I have had a story in the works for awhile of a woman I loved. We never had a physical relationship but it was close.
It was just and intense as anything else. So no, I was proud of her.


10. Jonathan Klinger wrote:“Pure love produces pure nonsense.” Have you ever experienced either?

LOL... all the time. My love life has been like a limerick.



11. Where would you like to be a year from know?

Alive would be nice. I feel like I have lived life enough for twelve people so whatever comes next is frosting on the cake.


12. In your birthday tribute to Scanner, you apologized to the Big Lebowski. Is that your favourite Coen Brothers movie? Explain your choice.


Lebowski is my favourite because each time you watch it you see something you missed. Of course Raising Arizona is the same and Blood Simple was another favourite. I did not like No Country for Old men because I hate bad endings, and that was one bad ending for me.


13. Joan Rivers said : "It's so long since I've had sex, I've forgotten who ties up whom.” Can you help Joan out?

I used to sell naughty bits to the conservative politicians of Ottawa. I know which way up is up on a whip, a crop, and a whole host of other things.As for personal preference you will have to talk amongst yourselves on that one.I have to have some secrets.

14. What's the oldest book that you've read?

The oldest book I have touched was a history book from 1847. The oldest book I have read is Anne of Green Gables from 1908.



15. How do you jam eleven Canadians into an Austin Mini?

That was one cold winter's night in Ottawa, Ontario, when people had a bit too much too drink. I sit here and wonder also but then think..

"Doesn't Alcohol shrink things?"