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A Fairy Great Godmother

Here’s the advantage of being a FAIRY Great Godmother…I don’t ever have to age. So when my godchild’s new son grows up, I will be just as young in his eyes as I am in hers.  You gotta love those magic wands.

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It depends on how you define journey

My mother, a staunch, old fashioned Roman Catholic Italian, once traveled to a Bris for my cousin’s two adopted sons from Brazil that he was raising with his same sex partner. I thought that was one of the longest journeys our family ever took, immigration from Italy notwithstanding. Yesterday, my cousin’s son celebrated his marriage with a traditional Chinese tea ceremony at his parent’s home.  It was beautiful even if, for a boisterous lot of Italian, a bit odd. I think of it as another long journey from what we know to the whole glorious world beyond our comfort zone

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When my sister most looks like my mother

I was on my way to a business lunch last week, dashing down the highway because I was late, when I tried to drink and drive. There’s a reason they tell you not to do that. In the blink of an eye I went from a neatly dressed business woman to someone wearing an entire latte down the front of her shirt and pants.

I went home to change only to realize how few summer clothes I actually have that are not T-shirts from Value Village with writing on them.  So I went out and bought three tops – yes,

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Mother guilt

I start my visit East today. I am into total guilt and complete panic over sending Blue and Blondie to a kennel even though I know it’s only for six days.  Sigh…..I kept apologizing to them. Do you think they understood that I’ll be back. I don’t want them to feel betrayed.

God, I need to get a life.

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Elderly relative?

I recently received an e-mail sent out to all elderly relatives of a certain young cousin of mine. I think you should all know that I prefer to think of myself as in the death throes of advanced middle age. I’ll get elderly later.

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I live for the day

I live for the day when women can shave their heads like men do when their hair starts thinning. It will be so much easier than arranging the few hairs on my head into any semblance of a hair do.  I wonder if I have a pretty bald head or an ugly one?  Unlike Brittany Spears, I’m not taking enough liquor and drugs to want to find out.

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In the end….

In the end, we won’t be taken down by professional terroists but by some inane, inept wannabees who accidentally actually blow something up.

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Oh for God’s sake!

Am I the only one who thinks that Paris Hilton is being a tad too dramatic? It’s not like she’s been sentenced to a life of hard labor. She’s in a cell by herself, separated from the general population, which should preserve her purity. All she has to do is sit there twenty three hours a day, shower and exercise for one hour, for about three weeks and then go home.  From her histrionics, you’d think she’d been sentenced to clean AIDS babies with her tongue.  Or maybe being so close to us every day folk is just more disgusting

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