So then. I had to work last night. I got to interview Rainn Wilson of "The Office," which sounds a lot more interesting than it was, given that he had fasted all day and was tired and punchy and ADD and I was tired and had talked to about 20 people who had stories so much more amazing and compelling...

My dear friends Suzanne and Alex Elliott had a brilliant idea last year: let's publish an anthology of first menstruation stories! As soon as they asked for entries, I got busy writing. Unfortunately, the idea fell by the wayside. Go read Suzanne's explanation here: Here is Suzanne with the iconic S...

The biggest problem with blogging is non-bloggers. Bloggers understand. They don't complain. They don't ask. I think they assume, as I do, that we are among friends. Friends say stupid things. They disappear for weeks at a time without a word. They talk about themselves too much or say the wrong thi...

Curt's memorial service was today and it was wonderful in the way that only a small-town memorial can be wonderful. So many loving people gathered together, each contributing in their own way to a circle of love and caring and life. Good music, good food, kind words, fond memories. Ack. Now I'm cryi...

I'm a total mess. I did not expect to be so devastated by Curt's death, but, as my sister would have said "No matter where you go, there you are." I have debated long and hard about what to say. He was a private person, but I'm not. And now he's gone. Do I respect the dead? Can I take the fifth on t...

July 6, 1962 - February 16, 2009Rest in peace, pal. Wherever you are, I hope there is a good chess game. *******Sorry to be kind of mysterious. Of course there is a whole backstory but Curt was a private kind of guy and I don't know how much to spill, especially right now, so my best bet is to say h...

I have spent most of my life not being very good at communication. I either say too much or too little or make assumptions or put my foot in it. I don't know if it the phase I'm in or what, but every single day I learn something about communicating that I did not know before. When I look at my famil...

I was having lunch with three friends when a man at the table behind us changed subjects from "How Much I Hated Having an MRI" to "Something That Came Out My Ass." Yes, right in the middle of my chile relleno, this middle-aged cable guy started telling his friend, in graphic detail, about something ...

Ok, ok, I'll do the facebook meme. I got tagged by a couple people, but I'm too lazy to tag anyone, and it is probably too late since the whole world has been tagged already. You're supposed to write 25 random things that people don't already know about you. Dude, I have been blogging for almost 100...

I have met some famous people in my life, mostly in the context of being a girl reporter and getting to interview them for an article. I never felt like I could do fan-girl things because I was at work, being all professional and sh*t, even though meeting the hot, hot, hot Anthony Bourdain made my p...