I’ve been thinking a lot about characters lately, probably because some new people have recently moved into my head. Like summer tenants, they are rowdy and noisy, self-absorbed, taking the place over like they have full rights to everything. They’re waking me up in the middle o… Read full post »

I am not one to complain about modern technological advances--where would I be without toaster pizza, for instance?--but I think that certain things might have been just a teeny tiny bit easier before the Internet knew everything about us and forced us to become the CEOs of our own public relations… Read full post »

We don't do well with titles in my family. It's some kind of naming dyslexia, probably not identified yet in the DSM-IV. So the other day when my daughter told me she was going to the movies to see "The Children Are Doing Just Fine," I knew right away she was… Read full post »

 I'm writing a new novel, which is another way of saying that I am obsessed with picking crumbs out from between the keys of my laptop, reading up on and worrying about Lindsay Lohan, clearing out my spam folder every 15 minutes or so, comparing my horoscopes… Read full post »

It is no longer so hot here that you want to take off all your clothes and pour ice water all over yourself, so that means that it's possibly safe to think about love again.  We've been in a love  moratorium for some time now on the East coast.… Read full post »

I wish I were lying about the number of degrees we have here. But there really are a trillion of them, and the air is hot and sticky and thick with ozone, whatever that is. (Ever notice how ozone is sometimes good and sometimes bad, and sometimes is so damaged that… Read full post »

            I don’t know Al and Tipper Gore, but, like everybody else, I’ve seen them kiss plenty of times. And over the years, I’ve watched them trot out a perfect, smiling family and present a narrative of their lives… Read full post »

I used to have a skirt that brought men.

No,  no. It's not what you're thinking. It wasn't skin tight or particularly short. It didn't have slits up the sides. You would really have to strain your imagination to conjure up "sex" and "this skirt" in the same thought. In fact,… Read full post »

For a while I was grateful that I wasn't caught up in "Lost." I had so much more free time than other people I knew, the ones who were always going on about a Smoke Monster and The Others, and who not only had to watch the show each week (and… Read full post »

It's May, which normally would mean it's time once again for me to go outside and make my annual announcement.

It goes like this: "Ye snakes of the earth! Please pause in your endeavors and listen to me for one minute! I admit that you are the owners of this… Read full post »