Having 5 cats means I swallow about 50 pounds of cat hair a year. Or more. I pull a long piece of fuzz out of my eyes at least 3 times a day. Every piece of clothing I own looks like mohair to some extent. And people always ask, “Don’t they fight?” And to this point I have been able [...]

The daughter of a friend of mine has lost her boyfriend last weekend, and in the office today, her daughter was there. I was terrified of my athlete’s-foot-of-the-tongue, and tried not to show it, because I didn’t want her to know how slightly uncomfortable I was that she was there. It’s not her fault that shit just flies out of [...]

Not being a praying type of gal, I don’t do this a lot. But I think a letter of Thanks is in order for the blessings in my life recently. In no particular order… Mushy squshy lovey dovey eternal thanks for Tony. My angel. A man who will hold a Wal-Mart bag full of vomit and say, “Wow, I’m glad [...]

I narrowly escaped jury duty Monday by the skin of my teeth. I had hoped that they wouldn’t choose me, what with all of the nonsense about WORK that I have to do. My schedule teaching is so tightly packed that I couldn’t bear to take off a week for some idiot woman who didn’t call a cab instead of [...]

Employment has been a challenge for me since I left college. Not that I am unemployable, certainly, I have the oft-mentioned Master’s degree, and a certain amount of web expertise, I can write, I cna use computers, I am familiar with Word and Excel, and I am a team player willing to put up with a lot of shit for [...]