Just when I was thinking I needed to post something here, this arrived: Dear Deesha, …I am pleased to confirm that your wonderful story THE TALK: PART ONE IN A SERIES has been selected for publication in A Cup of Comfort for Adopted Families. The grand-prize-winning story is AGLOW WITH GRATITUDE, by Randi Israelow. The [...]
Yep, she’s on a roll. This morning over breakfast: “Mommy, do you have to go to college to be a princess?” That’s proof positive of nature vs. nurture, right there. My feelings about the p-word are well-documented, and Princess Grace by Mary Hoffman (“There’s more than one way of being pretty.”) remains in heavy rotation [...]
Dave hands McCain and Palin their asses.
Conversation while en route to preschool this morning: BabyGirl (age 4-almost-5): Mommy, Daddy is voting for Barack Obama, but he doesn’t even have a yard sign. Me: Well, he can order one online. BabyGirl: REALLY? REALLY? What dot com? Me: BarackObama.com BabyGirl: Oh, yeah! Oh, yeah! (starts doing a little victory dance in her car [...]
New blog alert! A cyber-buddy of mine recently launched his very own blog, Just One Black Man’s Opinion. In addition to both hailing from the Sunshine State South originally, JOBMO and I are both on a private e-list that’s been around since the early ’90s (I joined in 2004)–you know, a group of good folk [...]
New blog alert! A cyber-buddy of mine recently launched his very own blog, Just One Black Man’s Opinion. In addition to both hailing from the Sunshine State South originally, JOBMO and I are both on a private e-list that’s been around since the early ’90s (I joined in 2004)–you know, a group of good folk [...]
I have a question–no, not why McCain is scared to face His Royal O-ness in a debate. It’s this: Why is one of my cat trying to open my kitchen cabinets? Seriously, I keep looking around for a hidden camera because clearly someone has slipped something into this cat’s kibble. I have two corner (L-shaped) [...]
Monday, September 22, 2008 Please Respond Immediately Forthwith In Confidence Dear American: I cordially correspond today to request you to support an urgent secret business relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude which is most seriously important. I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has had crisis [...]
Monday, September 22, 2008 Please Respond Immediately Forthwith In Confidence Dear American: I cordially correspond today to request you to support an urgent secret business relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude which is most seriously important. I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has had crisis [...]
Just read that the good folks at Bitch (“the feminist response to pop culture”) are in need of support of a monetary sort. They write: First the bad news: The print publishing industry as a whole is staring into a void. Across the board, newsstand magazine sales are in a slump, subscriber numbers are down, [...]