Part 1

I started this story last Saturday after I took pictures of homes that are now red and yellow tagg… Read full post »

This is the fourteenth in a series about the strangers that I meet in my life.

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The hot news this week was that Natalie Portman did not perform a lot of the dance moves in the film "Black Swan". A catfight has ensued with accusations that some of the dancing done by Portman was actually performed by a dancing double, American Ballet Theatre soloist Sarah Lane.… Read full post »

Standing in the middle of Borders last Saturday I sadly watched hundreds of people grab books like they were on fire just because they were 20-40 % off. I felt sick and angry at the same time just like I did when my store Flash Cadilac Clothing closed after 25 years… Read full post »

      Linda sat and watched the 5 o’clock news last night and began her pity party once it was over.  Britney Spears had performed a free concert at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco yesterday and Linda was not there.

There was no… Read full post »

     Most Canadian children go through a traditional rite of spring as soon as they can say the word “maple”. Each year in the month of March they are either led by their parents or have to endure some god forsaken field trip to a sugar shack in the… Read full post »

A few weeks ago a California high school student visiting the Golden Gate Bridge on a field trip climbed over the railing, jumped and somehow survived the 220-foot plunge into the San Francisco Bay.

Most jumpers die with massive internal injuries, broken bones and fractured skulls. Some drown,… Read full post »

I think that 60 year old Kirstie Alley said it all for me Monday night on “Dancing with the Stars”. Her exact words were,

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When I started to sell on eBay 12 years ago it was very debatable as what to call a handbag  to attract buyers. Some people called it a purse, bag, clutch and there are also specific names for each style.

Bucket, hobo, sling, satchel and of course the Kelly… Read full post »

Each week in one of the glossy supermarket magazines they have a photo essay of what some “D list” celebrity keeps in their purse. Everything always looks so organized and of course the contents are nothing but high end and hip. I  would also like to make a wager that they… Read full post »

On Friday I was shocked and dismayed to see that Tink had "kicked back" with Scanner! He had already been here all week whining about his much needed toenail transplant. I gave him 17 dollars which was one dollar for each photo that he allowed me to take of him.… Read full post »

This is the thirteenth in a series about the strangers that I meet in my life.

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                              Please play while reading

When I think of St. Patrick's Day I think of four leaf clovers that never seem to bring me any luck.

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My childhood friend Sheila kept every letter and piece of paper that I had ever sent to her from 1973-1989. She had emailed me last year and asked me if I wanted them.  When I received them they were neatly piled and carefully dated with the envelopes stapled to the… Read full post »

    My menopause is raging and screaming "Danger Will Robinson" because I am tired. I want names here. Who gave us this thing and how come men do not go through this? Why do I feel like my head is one of the balls in a pinball game?

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                     Some people write about fashion

                           Some people have similar styles

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     The first time I ever had sex was on my wedding night and I had just turned 21. It was the era of psychedelic music and free love but no one was going to get my physical love without a commitment. In those days we never had sex education… Read full post »

     I sit here and look through my vintage 1961 Betty Crocker Cookbook and I cannot find one darn recipe for Breast Milk Ice Cream. Should  I try and find one in the Carnation Milk Cookbook? If I remember correctly all those recipes… Read full post »

It all started with Walter Blevins’s comment last week about the Oakland California band Tower of Power on a blog I did.  Lschmoopie and I decided to dedicate a couple of posts to our Open Salon friend. Walter is the tower of power… Read full post »

  I sit and look at the Girl Scout Cookies on the counter that I cannot eat. Every year new flavours are on deck but they still have not come up with a gluten free cookie. That’s okay;  I was thrilled to buy… Read full post »

Yesterday there was a yard sale of sorts in San Mateo, California. Not one thing was sold  as it was a simply a rite of giving things back to the neighborhood. The area had been terrorized by a cat burglar and not a human one at that. It was nothing… Read full post »

Once upon a time the lofts were quiet and happy tenfold,

They were filled with people that had creativity oozing out of their soul,

Of course there was still one renegade in the beloved building,

That still played his music very loudly until he was told.

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        Last week I wrote a blog about vibrating appliances and some readers were quite disappointed that I had not touched upon another subject. Well today the time has come. I read yesterday that in May of 2009 a woman from Maryland was… Read full post »

Last night as Steve edited this blog we had a long discussion about it. He said no matter how hard I complained the Westboro church people have the right to say their words.

What they do in my mind is wrong, dead wrong. To have the right to use… Read full post »