I hate breast milk―the words, not the thing itself. There, I’ve said it.

We don’t call cow’s milk “udder milk.” Or “teat milk.” We give to non-human milk the dignity of calling it by the name of the creature it comes from. Cow’s… Read full post »

My kids. They've lent me money, visited me in the hospital when I had alcohol poisoning, even agreed to wear kilts in Las Vegas in June for me. They clap when I sing "Good Girls Don't" at Dino's karaoke bar on the Strip, and just generally have been much better kids… Read full post »

Actually, in the same way that a broken clock is right twice a day, Sarah Palin has recently unwittingly (of course the only way she could) coined a pitch-perfect description of a group of shrill and disagreeable women; a "cackle."

As usual, of course, Palin misapplied it, to femini… Read full post »

I'm signing copies of my new book tonight; if you're in Las Vegas and want to stop by the Foundation for Recovery Bookstore on Sahara and Decatur between 6 and 7 p.m., I'd love to see you. Between the time of the book's publication and today, a period of approximately… Read full post »

Just spent the afternoon re-reading my newest book, which just arrived from the printer: The Soul Workout, to be available in bookstores and online from centralrecoverypress.com and amazon.com on May 2 , 2010.

Many, many thanks to Stuart, Nancy, Sara, Val, Da… Read full post »

Last week after several hours on the phone trying to find an optometrist who would accept my insurance, I ended up at an old eye doctor I used to go to who said he'd take my new insurance "as a courtesy." Okay.

I'd been struggling with a "thing" inside my lower… Read full post »

Last week after several hours on the phone trying to find an optometrist who would accept my insurance, I ended up at an old eye doctor I used to go to who said he'd take my new insurance "as a courtesy." Okay.

I'd been struggling with a "thing" inside my lower… Read full post »

Italian Easter Pie is too good not to share.

I use a lightly-oiled springform pan and pizza dough purchased in a ball from the pizzeria-- my former mother in law was up at o'dark-hundred making her own dough for the crust, but I don't do that.

Heat… Read full post »

I attend a twelve-step recovery meeting at a small Lutheran church every morning at 7 ; have done so for the last two-and-a-half years. At Christmas, they held a Christmas Eve carol service, complete with wobbly voiced singers; I went in December and it was the most wonderful part of a real… Read full post »

"In the event that first contact with an alien race is made during her administration, Sarah Palin plans on constructing a giant electrified dome over the entire country to keep "tentacle-backs" from sneaking in and stealing jobs from honest American workers."

Check it out at factsaboutapalinpresiden… Read full post »

In recent weeks, Pope Benedict has had to deal with some damned serious allegations, some of which have been documented in two official Irish government reports concerning the way his Church leaders in Ireland have systematically played down reported cases of clerical sexual abuse of minors… Read full post »

Tribune Co. CEO Randy Michaels is catching beaucoup heat for issuing a memo encouraging the struggling company's newsreaders to improve their job performance by eliminating approximately 120 annoying, lame, overused, or trite words and expressions from their on-air vocabularies.

I don't ge… Read full post »

What is the lamest workplace training you've ever experienced? Training so bad you wanted to SCREAM and fling yourself out of the nearest window, but which, instead, you endured with a jaw-breakingly insincere smile because you needed the damn job.

Anything offered under the imp… Read full post »

Pisces Feb 18 - Mar 19

Helllooooo! Wondering why I've been so silent, so long? Well, one of the reasons you know, if you've been following along. The others: I've been book writin'! "Get tuh cipherin', Jethro!"

The Secret of Willow Ridge; Gabe's Dad Finds Recovery will be available on Amazon.com February 1 (or from the pub… Read full post »

I really do understand that these horrors boys are minors and not responsible for their own actions. That does not stop me from wishing they had been strangled in their cribs.

Evidently, the whole family… Read full post »

 Anthony and Bubble

From the time I was old enough to realize I wanted to be a mother,  I've wanted sons. By the time I was 27, I had them; three of them. (Even then, in my beautiful 20s, I was so insecure I thought, "What the hell do I want with a… Read full post »

Sometimes, in September, when the royalty checks are being printed somewhere back east, and the smell of much-needed money is in my nostrils, I visit my page on Amazon.com, to look at the rankings that tell me whether my books are still selling. In this way I fill myself with hope… Read full post »

Went out to buy shelves on Saturday with the MD of C, and came home with two bags of pig feed and an engagement ring. Cause that's how we roll!

I'm excited, happy, joyous, and free, and very much in love. The next thirty or forty years might not be… Read full post »

No, these cuties are not Peter Pan's Lost Boys. The green-haired sprite is Louis, and the one with the blonde spots holding his hand is my 8 year-old grandson, Damien. The venue is Las Vegas's First Friday event, the site is the sidewalk outside the Funkhouse, and the seating… Read full post »

Plenty has happened and I will tell you some:

I fell in love.

Remember the Miles Davis of cunnilingus? I moved in with him.

This has cut into my blogging time.

But I just approved the back cover copy for one of my soon-to-be-published books for Central… Read full post »

 OK, what's worse?

A. Your husband is "Client #9.
B. Your husband has "a wide stance."
C. Your husband diddled a chunky intern with thong panties and a Ronald-McDonald-size beret  in the Oval Office .
D. Your husband admitted he's secretly gay at… Read full post »

Let's see, they're Christians, right? How about they are giving all they have to the poor and disappearing to live lives of fasting and meditation, thereby never darkening our flatscreens or tabloids again? Oh, I guess they're not that kind of Christian.

How about a murder-suicide pact, havin… Read full post »