Elise Sereni Patkotak

The pope has “sincere regrets” about the remarks he made that seemed to insult Islam? How about having sincere regrets for all the lives lost because he leads a church that considers condoms a way to hell in a world of AIDS?

I buy two packages of sugar free hard candy to suck on in my office on those days when life just deserves a good suck.  I buy Werther’s Originals and Lifesavers. I know I like the former. I’m trying the latter for the first time.

I put the Lifesavers out and taste one. I don’t like them half as much as I like the others.  But I’ve already put them out in the dish.  And I paid for them.  And if I don’t eat them first and now, I’ll end up never eating them and they’ll be wasted.  So I

When I play bridge on my computer, I rotate all the little computer generated players so no one’s feelings will be hurt and everyone gets a chance to play. 

…who feels just terribly sorry for Suri?

Wow. Brad Pitt is getting a lot of votes for the “People who seriously annoy me” hall of fame.  And all those votes come from me so they count double.

On Tuesday morning I got out of bed, put on my slippers (thank god!) and headed out to the kitchen to turn the coffee on.  At my bedroonm doorway, I stepped into something soft, squishy and smelly. My dog had left me a gift. After depositing it, he then went to sleep downstairs since the smell apparently bothered him. I haven’t written about this till today because it has taken this long for my eyeballs to not bleed every time I think about it.

Oh yeah…Happy anniversary, Sandra and Harris.  May no dogs ever poop in your bedroom doorway.

There seems to be a mind set among people in the lower 48, especially those people who show up on your front doorstep in the summer, that every Alaskan is a tried and true outdoor person with intimate knowledge of wildlife, firearms, bear avoidance and – perhaps more than all else – fishing in Alaska waters.

Let me set their minds straight once and for all.

I am an outdoor person only if your idea of the outdoors is the tundra at 40 below in the winter.  My idea of firearms is confined to my attempt to hide their various

Baby Suri is dangerously close to winning the most annoying person in my life this year award and she can’t even poop in a toilet yet. 

Happened to be in a bar with live music last night.  I’d either forgotten how loud that can be or it just sounds louder because I’m so old. Either way, I found myself wishing they would put the table out in the parking lot for me so I could enjoy the music without feeling as though my eardrums were going to start bleeding.