Since there seems to have been a cat open call I missed along the way, I to shall jump on the bandwagon and share my kitty vignette, although probably not nearly as movingly as I have read elsewhere.

My love affair with cats goes way back to infancy. Long story short,… Read full post »

So, how’s that free market working for you?

I should say for the record that I am not a socialist, communist, et al., and I support capitalism on principle. Lately however, the practice of capitalism is frankly scaring the living daylights out of me! And/… Read full post »

It worked brilliantly for one J.K. Rowling, so from here on out she shall be known as "She Who Must Not Be Named," if I am interpreting current Democratic strategy correctly.

Recognizing that to continue to engage her, and make every headline coming out focused on th… Read full post »

Source: DOD

Amidst all the talk of patriotism and honoring the sacrifices of those, and the families of those, who have given their lives while in the service of our nation, the issue of properly honoring those who have died on behalf of the nation… Read full post »

My son has a fever today. We’re all sick, but the vermin virus that has overtaken us proclaims itself to the world most insidiously in the flushed and hot little body of my normally wriggling 17 month old.

I always feel guilt at times like these. The normal things are… Read full post »

In my daily research for my other blog, Relevant Mom, I routinely bookmark articles I come across that I want to come back to for inclusion or comment. Since my beat is news and current events, if I don’t feel moved to write about it within the week, I feel it… Read full post »

In my relatively brief time on this planet I’ve found a few pretty reliable rules of thumb when it comes to predicting human behavior that seems to work for me. In my experience there are generally two types of people: those that immediately freak out when presented with a challenge, but… Read full post »

I've been wondering in all this female demographic hullabaloo...where the hell is Oprah? I know, I know she's a celebrity...but she transcends celebrity for her demographic...ahmmmm...the demographic Obama needs to lock, because she is so relatable to them. Come on into my living room Oprah, have a c… Read full post »

I grew up in a small town in the California desert. My parents moved there from a suburban enclave of Los Angeles in search of cleaner air and country living. My mother suffered from terrible migraine headaches, so debilitating that an early memory of her summons images of the air heavy… Read full post »

Among all the carrying on that I viewed at last week's RNC, the one thing that sticks with me...and makes me cringe down to my toes is the following:

I hear it in my head...it keeps playing on a loop. And suddenly I understand what my internal indexing… Read full post »

The aftermath of the devastating earthquake in China earlier this summer, and the subsequent earthquakes that have followed, has astounded me repeatedly, what little information we get from the notoriously tight lipped Chinese spin machine. But one aspect of this devastation has repeatedly broken my… Read full post »

Watching the antics of presidential politics in the last two weeks got me a little too hot under the collar, so I informed my friends on Facebook that I would be putting myself is a little political time-out. Sure I tantrumed, I cried, I sulked, but ultimately I think I… Read full post »

Let me get straight to the point. Tread lightly those who would revel in a perceived victory for the Obama/Biden campaign, and trumpet the self-satisfied, endlessly regurgitated analysis of the “tokenism” of McCain’s pick of Sarah Palin for Vice President.  

There is a vehemen… Read full post »

As the cameras pulled away, and the commentaries resumed after Senator Hillary Clinton delivered her eagerly anticipated address at the Democratic National Convention Tuesday night, unlike many commentators who began the verbal equivalent of pumping their fists, I instead found myself sitting there,… Read full post »

I’ll say for the record that I’m generally regarded as pretty sentimental; I am that varietal that indeed does cry after a particularly poignant Hallmark commercial. A few beats later, however, my innate skeptical cynicism kicks into gear, making me angry that my emotions have been manipu… Read full post »

I don’t know how he did it, but Obama has managed to get a Clinton, of sorts, on the ticket, without actually selecting a Clinton. 

The nation is all a twitter about Barack Obama’s announcement of selecting Senator Joseph Biden to be his running mate. As I’ve watched the news… Read full post »

Every year, as the heat of July approaches, like clockwork, I start to twitch. Then as July turns to August, I start to breathe heavily with annoyance. And, then as August starts to approach September, then I blow in indignation! E-V-E-R-Y single year.

What causes such a palatable disruption in the fo/… Read full post »

Maybe the reason we can’t elect a woman president is that we are still too interested in our hair. 

Like many women, I was disappointed, if not a little crushed really, when Hillary Clinton failed to secure the Democratic nomination for the presidency. Many post mortem analyses persist as… Read full post »

As Dorothy famously uttered, “we’re not in Kansas anymore.” The same could be said of parenting in the information age. The impact of marketers and public relations spin professionals challenges parents trying to guard their impressionable children as well as their wallets.

When I wa/… Read full post »