An Olive Garden just opened in town and people in Anchorage are raving about it which says, I think, all that needs to be said about the quality of Italian restaurants in Anchorage and Alaskans’ general understanding of what real Italian food tastes like.
Thank god for Orso’s. And thank god Anchorage does Asian and Mexican as well, if not better, than most of the lower ‘48.
Why does the Catholic Church cover Viagra and vasectomies
I really believed what Lisa Murkowski said about representing the people who took a chance on her and gave her another term in office. Then she voted against health insurance coverage of birth control for women based on the claimed principle of religious freedom. I thought she was intelligent enough to see through that charade and understand the vote for what it was, the ongoing war against women by men who – while still overwhelmingly controlling this country and its institutions – are feeling threatened by women’s advances in society.
Don’t believe that? Let’s look at some facts. The Catholic
I got nothing
I think the snow has finally frozen my brain.
It’s the life I’m living now
As a friend and I walked and enjoyed the sunshine of last weekend in Anchorage, the talk turned to plans she and her husband have for their future when they retire… a reality that is rushing up faster than most of us baby boomers ever imagined it would. She asked me what my retirement dream was. I allowed as how I really didn’t have one. I thought about that talk on and off for the next day and realized that the reason I don’t have any dream retirement plans is because I am so very happy and content with my
Why watching gymnastics if bad for you
I get up late on a Sunday morning, feed the birds, pour coffee and flop into my big chair to sip my last cup of coffee while eating breakfast from a dish balanced on what had once been my rib cage in front of the TV. And there they are… perfect little hard bodied young women with figures I never imagined I could possess even in my wildest fantasies. And I look down at the old bathrobe covering the midriff bulge and belly that shakes like jelly and… well, suddenly the day does not seem as wonderful as it had
Why is there any doubt?
Given the success of our ventures in Afghanistan and Iraq, I don’t see how there can be any doubt about the drums of war starting to push us into Iran.
I’ve said it before…
…and I’ll say it again. I should have married a vet. When Blondie went to her doctor to cross the Rainbow Bridge, her vet brought a homemade scone in for her and I got to feed it to her as we prepped her and her medicine for the final journey. She went out in mid-chew with a mouthful of food and a roomful of love. It’s the way I want to go… the food perhaps even more than the love.
How is it
How is it that I can mix a small pill into a delightful mash of sweet potatoes, canned (wholly organic, of course) dog food and fresh strips of turkey breast and find, after my dog had slurped it up like it was the last meal she’d ever be fed, that pill in pristine condition at the bottom of the bowl? How the hell do dogs do that?
Annoy Rick, get educated
It’s simply amazing that all these many years later I find out my mother and father were secretly trying to wean me and my siblings from the religion that was an all encompassing part of their lives by insisting we attend college. All this time I just thought it was because they wanted a better life for their children, what used to be called the American Dream. Thank goodness Rick Santorum has corrected that obviously wrong idea.
My mother actually attended college, a rare to almost unheard of feat in her world at a time when both men and women
It’s still a male dominated society
If it wasn’t,birth control coverage wouldn’t be getting debated. Coverage would be required. It’s the morality of covering Viagra that would be getting voted on in congress.