Being raised by a hyper- iconoclastic mother, anti-everything, burn-your-bra mom, set me up to be a hopeless romantic. 

Growing up, I saw love around every corner. Fast approaching 42, I have had a boyfriend/compainion since kindergarten. I have always been boy-love crazy and boys have always be… Read full post »

As I move into the new year, nursing a tolerable hangover from absent-mindedly drinking almost 2 bottles of wine while watching woody allens's "crimes and misdemeanors", eating steak & shrimp with mr hubby in a very rare empty nest--I am pestered by the fact that it IS a "new year" and… Read full post »

 my mother

Growing up there was only my mother,

2  sisters, and a myriad of female cats. As early as ten, I could be found in my room  devouring the work… Read full post »

Having read recent OS posts about the various historical origins of Mother's Day, and thinking about my own mother's profound and historical disdain for anything remotely Hallmarkish (not unlike Anne Jarvis and Julia Ward Howe) and frankly not interested in wasting precious weekend time on a facile,… Read full post »

Yes, I broke down and agreed to transport my sister's cat--Bluey--from Logan Airport, Boston, MA- under my seat on a plane across the ocean to live with her in her fiance's flat in Rotterdam, Netherlands. She had Sasha (the queen), and her finace took her little boy-kitty--Beezley.… Read full post »

Mar 3, 2010 1:25am I am safe on the ground....it is 8am here! No sleep yet! Heading to the "boarding house"---R is real mensch....i love him!!!! Kisses........... Luv your kit

Mar 3, 2010 3:13am sitting at a dutch truckstop alone with… Read full post »

(preordained)

while I never read the bible
I believe in Adam's rib
curled up next to you
I find my destiny

in the beginning
that place was empty
and yet
preordained

once we met
we never parted
and still remain
as we were once
we continue to be

me from… Read full post »

I have good news! Thanks to all of you who weighed in on my big decision-- I took the big plunge and told my sister I would, in fact, assist in transporting her favorite kitty "Sasha" to Europe (namely The Netherlands where she is reloacting to be married to an old… Read full post »

 I am a mother of four ages 5-19. I am remarried to a Mr. Wonderful who is encouraging me to go...my children adore me...I adore them...but I also love my little sister (my only"blood" sister)...I wouldn't be who I am today without her...she is getting married and needs a third person… Read full post »

Christmas Eve morning...as the kids are going to be with their Dad for the "real" Christmas morning, I made ours this morning, which as I said in Pt 2 was already under fire as they had stayed up til 4 am (I found out later) which precluded… Read full post »

OK, so my mom collected welfare. But y'know what? We never felt poor. Yes, we lived on top of a drugstore, but it was a cool, bohemian pad. How did we end up on top of a drugstore? D-I-V-O-R-C-E.

 Yeah, we had a house. But that was their house. When he… Read full post »

I am a child of divorce whose life was was miraculously tempered and shaped by the glorious gift of  kind and gentle grandparents who lived on The Great River in Minnesota--the great and mighty Mississippi.

What child is this who snuggles down in her bed after watching Rudolph the Red… Read full post »

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Abigail Lost No Time

Chapter 1.

 Then David moved down into the Desert of Maon. A certain man in Maon, who had property there at Carmel, was very wealthy. He had a thousand goats and three thousand sheep, which he was shearing in Carmel. His name… Read full post »

"Can't somebody be a shit their whole life and try and repair the damage?
I mean..I think people want to hear that."  Royal

"Do they?"  Margot

Risky question.

Great answer!

I admire Margot's effortless frankness--her lack of need to be nice.  Margot's failure to make her Dad feel bette… Read full post »