My husband is having excrutiating face pain. His left side is weak from M.S. He has cancer surgery in two weeks. We have all of his pre-op tests tomorrow. We meet with his neurologist on Wednesday for any last minute tips to get through this surgery without going crazy from his… Read full post »

3 years ago I wrote my first blog about my former boss who made my life miserable and ended up killing herself. It got an E.P. and I was hooked.

3 short years later and so much has changed, while so much has stayed the same.

When I first wrote at… Read full post »

"Christopher Hitchens—the incomparable critic, masterful rhetorician, fiery wit, and fearless bon vivant—died today at the age of 62. Hitchens was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in the spring of 2010, just after the publication of his memoir, Hitch-22, and began chemotherapy s… Read full post »

Yes that's right. OWS is currently manifesting itself as a 33 year old homeless, indigent young woman with a masters degree and no ambition whatsoever. Unless you count "never having to work" as an ambition.

And she is lounging on my couch.

When she kept asking for monetary handouts we finally… Read full post »

I'm watching the Christmas commercials with a jaundiced eye.

All of the diamond commercials, the "no interest" credit card deals if you pay within 18 months, the Black Friday predictions, the "buy your spouse a car for Christmas?!" Really, people? A car? I don't know if it's just me. Is it… Read full post »

Every once in a while it's good to take an internal and external inventory. Especially when it's the End of the World as we know it. Things are simple here; not a lot new.

• Snow is starting to fall on the western slope. Winter is here.

• My step-daughter,
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One of our friends lives on the border of Colorado and Utah. Recently his neighbors' pitbull came in through the cat door and killed all 5 of their house cats who were innocently sleeping in their own house. His cats were not afraid of dogs since they live with two of… Read full post »

Las Vegas is Hell.

But everybody is happy here.

Maybe that's what Hell is like. You're sent here after you die and everybody walks around with a drink in their hand, a cigarette and a perpetual smile.

I'm staying at the Cosmopolitan Hotel on the strip, it is only 6 months… Read full post »

It wasn't so much the fact she didn't have her teeth in.

Or the fact that she was wearing a nightgown and was obviously, er, naked underneath.

It was probably the fact she hadn't bathed in a few days, having just been sprung from a local rehab joint after a total… Read full post »

I have never spent Spring in Colorado.

The last 14 years I've spent Spring in Honolulu.

With the frigid temperatures almost a memory here in the Rockies, the chaotic rush of farmers and ranchers and animals is breathtaking. Farmers plow their fields into tidy rows, ready to grow another huge… Read full post »

So I went to my nerdy-nerd conference in Long Beach, CA this week. It's where a bunch of us nerds in our nerdy profession get together and go to break-out sessions and listen to keynote speakers and eat at silly luncheons. And I got my full massive dose of radiation daily… Read full post »

Patti Smith lived the life I almost lived. Had I been more artistic, less afraid, less cautious, more cutting edge. 

She published her memoir in 2010: "Just Kids." The title of her book is based on a remark made by a husband whose wife begged him to take Patti Smith's and… Read full post »

I know hoarding resides on that vast continuum that makes up the neuroses and predilections of Human Beings.

My ex-husband began hoarding 2 years before our divorce and is burdened to this day by his need to hoard and the soothing mechanism that it affords him.

But I hadn't… Read full post »

I can't remember my words anymore.

I am hoping this is temporary. I can't remember when it started. Maybe a year ago, two years? I'm not sure. I just know I live like Porky Pig in my head half the time: "That's unbelie... that's unbelie...argghh....that's just crazy!"

I ask questions… Read full post »

Planned Parenthood is going to have to privatize. After a long and lucrative ride as the recipient of taxpayer dollars for abortions and other services, that ship is about to sail. Away. 

The GOP-led House passed an amendment Friday night that would eliminate federal funding for Planned Parentho… Read full post »

I admit it. I've been a bit protective with my dogs. Homeschooled them. Tried to keep them protected from the riffraff that is out there. You know, pit bulls and errant rottweilers and snooty poodles.

But a few weeks ago that all came to naught. I had to leave  them at… Read full post »

Mothers rejecting their daughters might be offensive and insensitive and hurtful but it's not all that uncommon. I don't know the actual statistics on it but anecdotally I've heard enough of these stories to last a lifetime. 

A lot of mothers reject their daughters at puberty. If they are not st… Read full post »

We are living in a house on the water.

We managed 7 months in the Colorado Rockies, blissfully loving our Tuscany-like valley filled with organic farms and horses and wineries and ranches.

And then the snow came. Fluffy and beautiful, fulfilling all of our winter fantasies. And then the propane gas… Read full post »

I just realized yesterday that my husband and I have been together longer than he and his first wife: the mother of his children and his highschool sweetheart.

We were walking aimlessly around the San Antonio mall [much busier than the Ala Moana Mall in Honolulu and I thought that was… Read full post »

Well the Apocalypse is right around the corner.

The ancient Mayans penciled in 2012 as the End of the World. The Hindu's tell us it's right around the bend. The Bible Belt Christians are getting ready for the Rapture. Included in the End of the World is:

 Conquest, War, Famine and… Read full post »

Love means never having to phone home. Or something like that.

Nothing quite says the Holiday Season more than quietly weeping into your eggnog while pondering the relatives who choose to reject you. Or is that just me?

Blended families are difficult at best, devastating at worst. The ones that… Read full post »

I am embracing Football.

It's my new Black.  Football is the new 30! It is the Sonny to my Cher.

Watching football I don't have to be scolded into teachable moments. If I want a teachable moment, I'll revisit the 5th grade in my mind, thank you very much. I can… Read full post »

Hell has no fury like a woman scorned.

John Edwards can now look forward to a living hell until he dies. While his wife of 30+ years supported his two failed presidential runs, birthed his 4 children, went on his endless campaign trails, grieved their beloved sons death; John had an… Read full post »

For those of you who watch True Blood on HBO, this story may sound familiar.

True Blood explores the relationship between vampires in Bon Temps, Louisiana, who are currently tolerated in society and are trying to be accepted by mortals and there are those humans who accept vampires and those humans… Read full post »