Do you still have all your photo albums? I do. I’m a virtual photography freak, although most of my photos were taken with plastic sale-priced cameras that leave many a photographer friend without words.
Photographs catalog my existence. They chronicle a life spent for a good time in braces, in younger years on my legs and [...]
Monthly Archives: February 2007
Snapshot
the Awards
Due to circumstances beyond my control - mostly this - I will not be doing what I had intended to do tonight, and will instead be live blogging the 79th Annual Academy Awards. Kick ass.
I bought this statuette for my Oscar party that was ne’er to be. Bug loves it. Because it has boobs.
Notice [...]
Revelations
Mom wears pantyhose to the Safeway. This may not mean a lot to you, as many mothers may don expensive socks that invariably rip while they maneuver 30-pound jagged-edged metal vehicles around a grocery store, but it’s telling. I have never seen my mother in jeans, not once - not ever - in [...]
Time, time, time. See what’s become of me.
In the early days of each season of American Idol, watching the show is akin to incurring closed head trauma, freeing up much time to post. The thoughts behind this one aren’t really fully formed yet, but I’m going to go for it anyway given the ample 10 minutes before bed and a lack [...]
Discretion
I don’t think I’ll ever forget the first time I walked into a host’s bathroom and saw personal hygiene wipes in plain view. They weren’t tucked away, as they would have been in my house, on a linen closet shelf covered by a hand towel, and then further encased in a brown paper bag labeled [...]
a single girl’s valentine’s post
I’m betting that many of you came here today for a bitter single woman’s diatribe. Written by a girl wearing black down to her underwear, lying on the couch with her 81 cats watching chick flicks with a dozen consoling Cinnabons.
And while the majority of the above statements is true about me at most [...]
on motherhood
I am a mother. I may not be a mother in the way that some of you are, but I am a mother nonetheless. I did not give birth to the furry creatures that sleep in my bed, one on my king-sized pillow and the other to my right with a calico tail [...]
