Somewhere in the late 80s, my first husband taught me to golf, and I discovered something countless people already knew. Golf is hard! In fact, it's the most difficult sport I've ever learned, with the possible exception of hang gliding, but that's a whole other (horrible scraped-and-bloody-legs) st...

Action action, we want action! A-C-T! (clapclapclap) I-O-N!  I'm soooo not a cheerleader. I admit, I tried out in sixth grade but just wasn't quite good enough to make the squad. Damn the pretty girls! (No worries, I got over it.) Today I am a cheerleader though, for my clients and anyone who w...

As I was walking through my neighborhood last week, I decided to turn around and walk a few of the gentle slopes backward. I sometimes do that because walking backward works different muscles in my legs and breaks the monotony of just walking. As I was making my trek up the street, I felt uncomforta...

...AND BE FORGOTTEN WITH THE REST. Awful news from Mory's Temple Bar--a place I loved, but which had been showing increasing strains in the past few years as it struggled to cope with an ethos of not merely egalitarianism (you don't need to be a Weatherman to weather that one, at Yale) but health- a...

We're one week out from Christmas and we're only three days out from the beginning of Hanukkah, so if you're a gift-buyer, chances are you're already finished. However, I have a feeling that out there among my gozillions of faithful readers, there must be one or maybe even two people who are Last Mi...

Well, Black Friday is over for another year. And gosh, only one guy was trampled and two others were shot. That's only three people dead this year. Go figure. That makes it quite a bit blacker, don't you think? Do NOT get me started on the whole concept of Black Friday (a tradition in which I firmly...

A little while back, when I wrote about guilty pleasures, you learned a few of mine are television shows, mostly in the reality genre. One of the best of these is Intervention which airs on Bravo. Each episode centers around the intervention of a person whose life is in total chaos due to drug or al...

Christmas Boy and I are busy furnishing our new mountain home which means doing a lot of something I'm not used to. Aquisition. Of. Stuff. So recently, I stopped into an antique store/flea market today in hopes that they'd have some interesting little end table for the new place. Here are two photos...

From my live cam: KhunDiddy:   the usual turgid tunes are being played at The Hovel… RussianDragon:  it’s so sweet and sticky palestine4ever:  I can perfectly imagine Luke cutting a woman up with a hacksaw as he listens to this song KhunDiddy:  this is great musi...

If you had to sit down with a calculator and tally up what you paid for everything in your home, what would the total be? I'd be willing to bet it's a LOT more than you'd ever imagine. I began pondering this question because very soon, Christmas Boy and I will sit down at the closing table, leaving ...