My friend Rob came to visit me with his old lady dog Amy. Amy is big, furry, old and moves with the speed and grace of a crippled hippo. My Blondie is also an old lady, full of fur but no fury. When Amy came in she sniffed Blondie. Blondie then sniffed Amy. Then Blondie and Amy stood there for a minute looking at each other. Then Blondie went to her den in the back of my closet and went back to sleep. Amy went over to Blondie’s food dish, ate what dry dog food was left there and then
Civil marriages should not follow any specific religion’s precepts
As someone raised in an insular Italian neighborhood and educated for 18 years in Catholic school, I did not have a clue growing up about what gay meant, unless you were talking about the state some of my parents’ friends found themselves in after a few drinks. Eventually I figured it out when a dear friend’s father came out after the death of her mother and one of my cousin’s admitted that his roommate was much, much more and that they were, in fact, adopting two little boys.
When I nursed in Brooklyn in the late 1960s and early 1970s,
My week is brighter
Now that Michele B has joined the race for Republican nominee for president, I see light in my future as the columns all but write themselves. And dare I hope that the lovely Sarah of Arizona might also jump into the fray so we can watch the two of them slug it out for the most in love with god and country candidate title? My cup would then truly run over.
Mosquitoes
No, seriously god, what the hell were you thinking?
Earthquake? Bird?
My office is directly below my living room where the energetic African Gray Parrot Abdul lives. Last week when we had a 5.2 earthquake, I initially thought it was Abdul just banging on his cage and made no move to safety. I have simply got to learn to differentiate those two things.
Anchorage has an Urban Design Commission? OMG!
I just read in the paper that Anchorage actually has an Urban Design Commission slated for elimination in 2013. And all I can think is… we have an urban design commission and we STILL look this way? What the hell has that commission been doing? They shouldn’t be eliminated. They should be jailed.
My mid year resolution
Stop raising my hand and volunteering when all I really want to do is crawl in bed with a good book.
While they’re at it
While Republicans try to turn Medicare into a voucher program, I think that the same should be done with the health care insurance offered to all elected representatives. If I have to go to a voucher program and try to buy coverage for very limited dollars, then they should too. No more gold plated health plan for senators and reps. Give them a $100 voucher and tell them to go shop for a good deal.
Three cheers for Mrs. Wiener
I am well aware that our current crop of public personalities did not discover the art of being scummy yucks. Had so much media been available in the past, I’m willing to bet that we might know more today than we ever would want to about people we currently view as our heroes.
But we unfortunately live in an age where every overblown egotistical impulse that visits humankind can instantly be photographed, documented, twitted and tweeted around the world in the same amount of time it takes for the thought to occur. We have lost that valuable space of time
I saw a butt crack recently
I was in a mall and a young man in front of me bent over to look at something in a display. And I was treated to the sight of most of his naked ass. Not only did I not need to have that image forever burned into my brain, but I must once again ask… how the hell do they keep those pants on? Do they have a constant erection and their penis acts as a hook holding the pants up? And my parents thought I dressed weirdly in the sixties. They had no idea what was to come.