Writing the good read
Or How I’m Trying To Have My Cake and Eat It, Too I’ve been seeing Mr. Right Now for three months. It’s a nice relationship — fun, drama free. He makes me smile. He is very attentive. He is kind. Mr Right Now is fairly incorporated into my life, spending time regularly with me and…
When Tina Fey’s book Bossypants came out last year, there was a lot of buzz, a lot of positive talk about how funny it was. I don’t usually buy celebrity books because I am inevitably disappointed. But I bought it. And I was disappointed. It wasn’t bad, and parts were quite funny. But when I…
Fifteen years ago right now I was recovering from one of those a little bit of everything births — induction, labor, pushing, c-section. I was spending every second I could staring at the 5 pound peanut I’d come out of the experience with. He looked like an old balding Jewish man (a look he kept…
I was looking over the Snoqualmie Falls last week, admittedly entranced. There was a bit of late evening sun, a mist rising from the river where three ribbons of water fell to meet it. The center band had this iridescent green thing going on that I found mesmerizing. I stared for a while before I…
My mom came up last weekend to spend some quality time with me and Darling Son. Our relationship is, well, interesting. Since my Wasband made the decision to undergo gender reassignment surgery, Mom has been uninterested in being and unwilling to be in the same room with her. That means that next week, when Darling…
I have always taken my role as a journalist seriously. I try to maintain objectivity, seek and report information from both sides of a given issue, and request actual answers to my questions. It drives me crazy to see the top tier journalists in this country ask questions of politicians that dance around the issues….
I almost always talk about the Mean Lady with my tongue firmly in cheek. She is, indeed, rather cruel as a Pilates instructor. However, she’s pretty nice when she’s not asking me to do the 100s but really making me do the 200s, or telling me I’ve only done 15 reps of something when I…
You and other conservatives have, for a while, been calling on President Obama to arm the rebels in Syria. While we would all love to see the perpetrators of the violence face some sort of comeuppance — and if it’s the kind that deprives them of political and military power, so much the better —…
There are two more days for the blogathon and I have managed to visit each of the 250-plus participant blogs at least once. This is the last time this year I’ll be putting together a list of some of the great writers I discovered through this annual endeavor. I’m sure there are a large number…
The purpose of the game is not to get to the end of the inning as fast as possible, nor is it to leave base runners in scoring position for all three of the outs. Indeed, despite the fact that you have a bat and someone throws you a ball, nothing says you must swing….