Category: Thoughts

I’m traveling right now, and so I am acutely aware of a particularly heinous (all rights for the phrase “particularly heinous” belong to NBC; used with permission) crime that is perpetrated in airports, planes, and free wi-fi hotspots. It is a nasty crime, leaving its victims feeling dirty, violated and vulnerable. The psychology of the…

Last week I attended a meeting where an overly caffeinated facilitator wanted the room to participate in the age-old torture ritual of an Ice Breaker. Doesn’t that bring up a vicious image: a bunch of people frozen, encased in ice, which must be gnawed at and hacked at until finally numb, trembling hands can be…

Sometimes it is hard to know what to say when someone announces without a lot of enthusiasm that she is pregnant. You kind of wait to find out if it’s a “hurray,” moment, or a “ooohhhh,” moment or if a “hhmmm” is needed. But when Michelle says she’s pregnant, the only possible answer is “you…

I’m betting that if we could start in the part of your brain where your love of whatever it is you love resides and follow the sparking and frayed wiring past where it crosses the blue synapses and the firing yellow connections and that knot of red wire, we would find a glowing hotspot in…

Last night we scooted over to Bedhead Betty to shake the week out on the dance floor. They have one cute drummer girl throwing beats to an eclectic mix of covers ranging from county to Police to 60s classics. They pulled out a good mix of thirty something-plus-plus-plus-something listeners and dancers, too, which makes for…

Driving with my 14-y-old, I see a luscious stand of multi-colored tulips surrounding a mailbox garden: “Oh, look at those tulips! Gorgeous. Oh, I want those! Tonight, will you come up here in the middle of the night and snip them for me?” “Yeah, mom, I’ll just drive up…” “No, they’ll hear you. Walk.” “Wearing…

Oh my god. What is this? OH MY GOD?!?!? Who is taking pills? I will not survive these high school years, I won’t. What is it, speed, painkiller, what? I’ve never taken anything that looks like that. What am I going to do? I need to sell this house and homeschool these kids in Idaho…

Today I was sitting at a cafe killing an odd hour between appointments with a little chai, a little sunshine and a little pen and paper. A couple in their late 40s sat near me. They looked okay, a little country, both on the sandy/red-haired side, both in khakis–him in cowboy boots and her in…

I love a dirty romp with a talented girl just as much as anyone, but really, paying for it while you are in office? I think you should resign, and take Hillary with you for two major reasons. You have no business running a state when you are so careless with your own thousands of…