Non-Smoker Likes Cigarettes
For most of my life cigarettes were emotionally unmarked for me. No one in my family smoked and I didn't have any particularly good or bad experiences with friends who smoked, so cigarette smoke stayed quite neutral. I didn't want to breathe it while I was eating and...
Cornell University: Ivy League Punchline
Originally posted years ago. The Michael J Fox Show didn't make it. In the pilot of The Michael J. Fox Show, Mike's son Ian is presented as a college dropout, although Ian clarifies that he has simply prioritized making his first million before age 22. Ian lives...
What To Do with the Extra Happy?
Let's say I have a little coping mechanism game: on days when I'm feeling down, I cheer myself up by pretending it's my birthday. I tell myself "How bad can things be? It's my birthday!" and immediately the day brightens. Let's say that no matter what's going on,...
Breaking Bad: Feel Bad for Skyler
I like what friend and fellow blogger Gunner* has to say about Breaking Bad: ...for a beloved TV show to end on a high note is rare. It's like Breaking Bad broke up with us, and we're used to being the ones that lose interest in a story and watching the next good...
Better
Guess what? I'm feeling better. The combination of the tapping and crying I did earlier in the week, having a turbo-level chiropractor visit, re-reading my positive blog posts and support from friends has pulled me out of my crying jag. Dr. Ashley Frer can work...
Grieving My Marriage
I've been scraping around for about a week now, missing my post-husband (I call him that because we'll be legally divorced in a few months), feeling the emptiness of my beautiful one-bedroom apartment, crying, EFT tapping, resting and then crying more. I understand...
My Hero
And again, after last night's Breaking Bad episode, "Granite State": Yay, Flynn!
Such a Mess and So Damn Proud
Recently someone who called herself "Deb" commented on one of my posts: Wow. You are such a mess and so damn proud of it. I responded, "Thank you," but I actually wish I were proud of it. The truth is that it's not correct to say I'm proud of being a mess, however...
I Hate Walter White
So there.
Breaking Bad: Walt, Jr. AKA Flynn
SPOILER ALERT: Don't read unless you're caught up completely on the American series Breaking Bad. Its series finale airs later this month. Yay, Aunt Marie for cluing in Flynn and DOUBLE YAY to Flynn for picking up the damn phone and doing what should have been done...
This Was Written by a MAN?
Previous post on weight & health: Fatter but wiser Even though the name of the author of this piece is Kevin, I still wasn't sure a guy had written it until he referred to himself as a father. Then I thought, "A man wrote this?? Bra-vo!" The only way I could...
Horror and Dreams
If you don't like being genuinely frightened, don’t watch Grave Encounters (2009) or The Bay (2010). I had a private horror film festival over the weekend and those two movies actually made me jump and shriek and cover my eyes. Of course, I watched them alone in the...