Me, near the beginning of Before, @200 pounds: (still searching for those hidden pics that will truly show the SIZE, since I can't show the PAIN)

[Found some... still looking...]

@200 pounds                 &nbs… Read full post »

Patients shall have the right to:
- Considerate and respectful care at all times and appreciation for their individual dignity. PATIENT'S BILL OF RIGHTS, Boca Raton Community Hospital

Everything in this Healthcare Nightmare is true. It  happened to my parents this week. And they're among… Read full post »

This is not Beauty. But it could be. Maybe it is.

She is exquisite. The face you see in glossy magazines and think, no one really looks like that. But she does. I stare at the long, lean legs extending far below the black smock, making it seem ridiculously tiny, and wonder who is… Read full post »

(If you've already read this post, you'll find the Update at the bottom, just above the comments. I SO urge you to read it).

"The anniversary is more for people who were not there. For anyone who lived through it, the anniversary is pretty much every day… Read full post »

 UPDATE: LETTERMAN'S FULL DESCRIPTION

"I'm motivated by nothing but guilt. If you know anything about me, I am just a towering mass of Luthern, Midwestern guilt." David Letterman     

Yes, his revelations Thursday night were stunning and handled with David Let… Read full post »

 
Bob Dylan: Nashville Skyline

Can you please crawl out your window?
Use your arms and legs it won't ruin you
How can you say he will haunt you?
You can go back to him any time you want to.
BobDylan: Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?

Come with me as I open a window to… Read full post »

As promised, this is the follow-up to "Sally Needs" ... To Tell You About Her First Time (In Love). You should read it first. It's sweet and sexy and sad and, well...

Go ahead, read it. I'll wait.

So will the others who read it already and are out for blood.

You'll… Read full post »

Below is the result of a writing assignment given by an English professor from the University of Colorado. A “tandem story” was to be written by two students, one male, one female.

The story was to be compiled in alternating paragraphs via email, with CC’s to… Read full post »

"It's true that it doesn't make sense straight off the bat that someone would shop for a Valentine's Day gift at Home Depot. But we do see a high volume of traffic just before the holiday." John Simley

There you go, from the Home Depot's mouth. Valentines's Day… Read full post »

 

This post was inspired by Gwool's review of sex studies, Ideal Time For Sex Is How Long????  And by Meg Ryan.

"The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical." Wilhelm Reich

A book came out a couple years ago which is still the object of substantial scientific/… Read full post »

That Pogo cartoon about Earth Day was co-opted as a key feminist symbol in the 1970's. A reminder to women everywhere that we can be our own worst enemies.

Our version said, We have met the enemy and she is us.

It helped us remember that fear of owning our/… Read full post »

 
The kid, who could care less, it's all about the somersault.

Warning: PG-13 description of childbirth below. Clearly marked with an additional warning for any wussies who want to skip over it.

I already told you about not wanting to marry and how that changed. Here's Part 2.

Back Sto… Read full post »

Ever since viewing one five-minute segment of the children's TV show "Barney and Friends" I have been eternally grateful that our son, and therefore his parents, missed the Singing Purple T-Rex era ... if only by inches.

There's not enough insulin in the world to have gotten us… Read full post »

"Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined." Johnny Carson

Late Night TV was created by Jack Parr… Read full post »

The True Story of My Near Death Experience

The Beginning
December 10, 1973 started out like any other day. Which is almost always the case when something horrible--or wonderful--is about to happen. For me, horrible. At first. It would lead me beyond wonderful, but I didn't know that eithe… Read full post »

"Old age ain't for sissies." Bette Davis

At ages 85 and 92 my parents are platinum-card-carrying Senior Citizens. Mom and Dad are slowing down a bit, but they're remarkably youthful in many ways. They still live in their condo on the grounds of a private golf resort in Boca Raton. Indepe… Read full post »

  

Déjà vu all over again. Fate--in the person of a new OS blogger--has now told me it's time to tell the version I heard, supposedly from the horse's mouth, of what really happened almost 40 years ago at Chappaquiddick.

In a thoughtful post called My Kennedy mystery, wr/… Read full post »

No, this isn't a list of deathbed quotes. No, this isn't that old list that starts  with "the check is in the mail" ... you know the rest. This is more modern, hip, annoying, real.

These are phrases most of us have heard or said at one time or another.… Read full post »

 
The most famous photo of Frank Rizzo, wearing a tuxedo with a nightstick stuck in the cummerbund.

[Frank] Rizzo was also not a typical [police] commissioner... He was boisterous and brooding, particularly to media. A biography of Rizzo, with an introduction written by future police… Read full post »