my computer has betrayed me

after so many

late nights

sleepless hours

we spent together

it humming softly

me glowing in its light

pouring my

thoughts

into excited

finger taps

on comfortable

keys

I trusted something

that had no heart

whatever power it did possess 

froze

and deep inside

the cold… Read full post »

OK  guys.  Listen up.  I’m going to share a little information that should be very useful to you.  Why you might ask, is it useful to you?  Because it is one of those little tidbits that might come in handy if you are trying to get laid.  Which I have found… Read full post »

Last night I was “Dancing with the Stars”...OK, I wasn’t so much “Dancing with the Stars” as I was “Sitting in the Audience.”  But still, I was there with about a couple of hundred other random people who either are fans of the show and probably w… Read full post »

When I was little I used to watch "Wonder Woman" on TV.  Oh how I loved that show!  Lynda Carter was a rock star.  She could deflect bullets with her wrist bands, lasso criminals and make them tell the truth, save the day, and her hair always looked amazing.  Plus, she… Read full post »

So Adam Lambert's new album cover was revealed and surprise, surprise...instant controversy.  

OK...I get it.  He looks like a girl.  And?  I mean seriously, this is controversial?  Didn't anybody watch American Idol last season?  The guy is… Read full post »

If pink is the new black, 40 is the new 30, and Twitter is the new Face Book then is it possible that OS is the new 7th grade?

Here’s the deal.  I, like the majority of you (I hope anyway, no offense to those who never made it… Read full post »

Why is it that we woman are so good at giving advice and so bad at following it?  Just yesterday for example, I found myself lecturing a dear friend about how important it is that she take care of herself, carve out time to "feed her soul" and not run herself… Read full post »

I’ve been married for 17 years--been a mother for 15 of them.  And after all these years of doing laundry and dishes, making beds, picking up toys and dirty socks, sorting crayons, doing homework, driving carpool, dropping off and picking up dry… Read full post »

Have you ever been in a check out line at Tar-jay and the cashier says, “Do you remember how much this cost?”  Well, this happens to me regularly as I am notorious for choosing the one shirt on the rack with no price tag on it. /… Read full post »

I know that tomorrow is 9/11 and all.  I'm aware that there is a war happening.  Of course I'm not oblivious to the whole healthcare debate.  The uproar over some schools not airing the Obama speech to kids did not escape my attention.

But c'mon people!  There's something f… Read full post »

Recently I talked my father into joining Facebook.  I was quite pleased with myself for doing it, too.  He argued that he didn’t need one more distraction, had plenty enough friends in his “real life,” that… Read full post »

My husband has terrible timing. If there were a prize for this, he’d be the big winner. First of all he always goes out of town on business when I need him here the most. If the kids have big projects due, you know the kind that involve… Read full post »

In the wake of news that Michael Jackson’s death was ruled a homicide we have yet another tragedy in the music world.

Today Adam Goldstein, better known as “DJ AM” was found dead in his New York apartment.  The cause of death is stil… Read full post »

I did something I haven't done in three decades.  I rode a horse!

My morning was supposed to be both productive and peaceful.  I am on vacation after all.  While I am traveling with my husband and three children, I thought I’d steal a moment or two to myself to eat a quiet breakfast at the hotel’s lovely restaurant, at a table with a… Read full post »

Les Paul with Chet Atkins 

Today marks the death of one of the greatest American music legends of all time.  Lester William Polfuss, better known as Les Paul, died in White Plains, NY at the age of 94 due to complications from pneumonia.  Paul was a revolutionary… Read full post »

My youngest loves for me to tell the story of when he was a baby of maybe 20 months or so.  He fussed so much in the back seat of the car after seeing me pop a piece of gum into my mouth, that I went ahead and did the unthinkable. … Read full post »

Today I got a taste of what it must be like to be a god.  Yes, today I was a doctor.  A pediatrician no less.  Let me clarify.  I had an audition for the role of a pediatrician for a television and print campaign for a baby formula.  I have no… Read full post »

I think I have developed a bad case of what I like to call “momnesia.”  I am not old enough to have Alzheimer's and as far as I know, I haven’t been hit over the head with any blunt objects.  But yet I seem to be suffering from memory loss.  Some… Read full post »

Here’s how the teenage mind works.

Any plan I want to make should miraculously come to fruition simply because I want what I want when I want it.

Anyone who tells me that I can’t have what I want is the cause of why I can’t have it.

 … Read full post »

I can hardly believe it, but July is almost over.  Where is the summer going?  Every year I am thrilled when school lets out.  I imagine having long relaxing days at the beach, riding bikes, having lemonade stands, hanging out with friends at the pool.  But somehow that never happ… Read full post »

Today my friend Jill and I went to lunch at California Pizza Kitchen.  Since I was there last there have been some unfortunate changes.  Per a new California law that went into effect on July 1, the restaurant has now… Read full post »

Maybe the Golden Rule of "Do unto others as you would have done unto you," was ingrained in my brain as a child, but I honestly do not understand how or why someone would leave a negative comment on another OSer's post.  I'm not talking about opinions about the writing of… Read full post »

Last night I had the weirdest dream...

I was going to the wedding of a friend from high school.  I’d traveled far to get there, and I was staying at a hotel.  When I got there I looked like I always do, and the hotel staff was helping me unpack… Read full post »

I last weekend I went on a little getaway with my husband.  We wanted to go somewhere quiet, quaint, romantic...so where did we go?  Vegas, baby.

Las Vegas is aptly nicknamed “Sin City”.  Visitors board their flights as perfectly respectable, law abiding, chur… Read full post »