Ever since I was a little girl I wanted to be accepted for being different. To be seen. To be heard. I had costume changes and held performances for my stuffed animals. I flirted with all the boys and fought with my girls. I played […]
It’s the night before opening day. Barry Pepper as Roger Marris is flexin’ on the living room screen, the chills, running through my body. And then it hit me. I forgot how much I loved baseball. The players. The cheering crowd. The cards. The collectible […]
There she was, Marie LashHands, with two tweezers and a prosthetic lash in hand. I had always wondered what went down in these lash bars. How many people a day were getting their lashes extended? Apparently enough. You can find DekaLash all across the United […]
Raised by women there is one thing that I am certain of. We all belong in an insane asylum. There goes all the feminists burning me at the stake. Here’s the thing, being mental is a compliment. Some of the smartest people in the universe […]
Have you ever witnessed an event that made you want to change? If you said No, you are totally wrong. You see it every single waking moment of your life. A bum asking for change. A fishy caught in a six pack of beer plastic. […]
What a time to be alive. The sun is shining; thank you “global warming”. There seems to be a constant torrential down pour in southern California, who knew. And I’m 14 days into 30. The world is changing. Yet my unemployment has not. For no […]
I am sorry to have to bid you farewellOur time together has come to an end. You have done nothing wrong; “It’s not you, It’s me.” Ten years ago today I turned 20. Life seemed so simple; a giant playground, I was finally getting access to. College […]
A taco is the symbol for unity. It is a metaphor for what happens when cultures collide. In any restaurant, find yourself surrounded by every ethnicity coming together for one thing, beautifully crafted insides canoed by a warm masa of sorts. What kind of taco […]
You would think that after all that had happened we would be done, right? Wrong? That was our first stop of four and day three of seven! The captain now knows who I am and we made friends with people who were just as wild […]
“Honeymoon” was the month after a wedding, when the bride’s father would give the groom all the mead he wanted. Mead is a honey beer. The Babylonians started calling the month the “honey month” but we now call it a “honeymoon“ Just a few short weeks after […]