The Origin of Disfunction

You know when I knew (or should have known) that I had really bad taste in men? When I was a little girl and I saw the Bad News Bears and had a huge crush on Kelly.
You know the bad kid that mouths off and doesn’t ever seem like he is going to do [...]

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Full On Rant

Okay, now I am pissed.  I haven’t up until this point.  I thought all those people who were suing cigarette companies were whiners.  I have smoked on and off for longer than I will ever admit.  I know it’s bad for me.  Everybody knows it bad.  But today I read in the Washington Post that [...]

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A day in the life

For two days last week I got to play archaeologist! For years now I have worked with archaeologists but I have never had the opportunity to go out in the field with them. But they needed help I needed to get out of the office (I also have some work to do [...]

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71 days til my birthday

Scorpio Horoscope for week of August 24, 2006

An artist in Santa Fe, New Mexico built a replica of England’s famous Stonehenge. But instead of using huge slabs of rock to mimic the original, Adam Horowitz erected his spectacular monument with 200 old refrigerators. Hence its name: Stonefridge. This would be a perfect time for [...]

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Michelle and Shelby Go See Julia

Michelle and I went to visit our Julia in Tallahassee. Julia, as you know, has just returned home from eight months in Florence, Italy. She none too happy about coming home, except that she gets to see her family, friends and her cats. To put it mildly she had some surprises to [...]

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An Observation

There are men, European men, Middle Eastern men, who say to me, “You smell very nice, or your earrings are beautiful, or your hair is really lovely; if you would just  . . .just . . .”  Just what?  Shut up?  Know your place? Mind yourself.  That is what they are saying, but they don’t [...]

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Julia’s Home

She arrived safely last night and is already up and running around taking care of business.  Michelle and I head down tomorrow.  I will do a Will-style Road Trip travelogue for you.  It’ll be fun.
Meantime, I have a rehearsal tonight for my first turn at directing.  I wrote a screenplay and will be co-directing with [...]

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My Darling Julia

One of our favorite songs shuffled it’s way to the top of my playlist this morning. It seems appropriate as you say goodbye to your adopted home. You have found freedom and courage to make your lyrical voice public. You have found love; love of life and yourself, of adventure, and strangers. [...]

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Coincidence?

So I had this random memory pop into my head this afternoon.  When I was a kid we went to this big Sears warehouse to pick up stuff my mom had ordered from Sears catalogue.  I can sort of remember the building. I remember that we were in my mom’s red VW beetle. I think [...]

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The Image of Women

Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net
Yesterdays’ post prompted the following discussion between Julia and I.
[How would we have survived without gchat?]
Me: Nicole Kidman is not that bad
Julia: ewww
she bugs me
me: why?
Julia: because there are other actresses in the world, but she gets all the good fucking roles — it’s a monopoly
a Kidman/Cruise monopoly that didn’t end [...]

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