Mother’s Day

Mothering has little to do with biological reproduction. There are women who bear and raise children without ever mothering them, and there are people, both male and female, who mother all their lives without ever giving birth.
The bad news is that not all of us have the good fortune to be [...]

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My New Favorite Ad

WeedWoman gives me her Yoga Journals when she’s done reading them, and this is a print ad for Lululemon Athletica* that I found in April’s issue:
Want to make a fresh start in your life? Think about the end of your life. Okay, it may seem a little morbid at first blush, but we [...]

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The Ladder Story

Before I go any further, I’m telling you now that every word of this is true. I’m not embellishing or making anything up, which I am sometimes wont to do, because sometimes, good stories need a little help. This one doesn’t. Clear? Great.
About a year or so ago, I was [...]

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Social Security

I have no idea how we got on the topic, but when we were together last week, WeedWoman and I decided that, if we end up as old lady widows, we’re going to sell most of our shit, pack the rest of it, pool our resources and buy a condo in Florida together.
For reasons I [...]

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ABC Meme

Meno tagged me. Of course, I gave her permission, so I’m not complaining…
A - Available/Single? Very happily married for going on 11 years now…
B - Best Friend? I’ve got a couple of “best” friends, so naming some feels like discounting others. If I have to single out, Mr. Chili and [...]

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Ten Things Tuesday

More movie quotes!
You all seemed to enjoy the first go-round with movie quotes, so I thought I’d do it again. See how many of these you can get without resorting to IMDB:
1. “We fight for men and women whose poetry is not yet written but which will presently be as enviable and as [...]

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Phew!

I AM smarter than a fifth grader!
You are 100% Smarter than a fifth grader.
 
 
You are smarter than a fifth grader. no doubt. There is no need for you to retake school. Keep on doing your brain excersise like sudokus and crossword puzzles, and you’ll soon be smarter than a sixth grader! Good work!
are you smarter [...]

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Monkey See…

…monkey puke.
Mr. Chili and I were watching an episode of House the other day (we have TiVo; we can watch stuff pretty much whenever we damned well feel like it). It was the one where House and Cuddy are coming back from some conference in an unnamed Asian country and, en route back to [...]

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Potty Mouth

This was a meme idea taken from The Daily Meme’s “Five for Friday” idea list. Yeah, I know; it’s Saturday. Whatever. Shut up.
1. Do you curse/swear or otherwise use curse/swear words?
Oh, fuck yeah!
2. Do you substitute faux curse words, like shoot or crap, for the real thing?
I’ve been known to write things [...]

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I’m NOT Being Passive-Aggressive…

…but I want to know if any of you knows how to subscribe to a blog feed, and exactly what that means.
I suspect - though I could just be imagining my perfect little world - that there’s some mechanism out there that tells folks when there are new posts to their favorite blogs. I [...]

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