It’s Girl Scout Cookie Season. Watch out at the grocery store. A cadre of cute girls may pounce on you—armed with armfuls of legal, expensive, yet tasty WMDs. Try to avoid such an encounter as the earnest girls and their treats are hard to resist. But the world will INFINITELY be a better place if [...]
This month’s FuchsiaWoman Now Award is presented to a woman who has put her Hollywood career on hold while she pursues a different goal: higher education. The fourth FW Now Award honoree is <<<<<suspenseful interlude>>>>: MS. ASHLEY JUDD >>>>>>>applause! <<<<<<<<< Due to her desire “to make the world a better place,” she has enrolled in [...]
Here’s why I put Mr. Lambert in the Used To Be Cool but is now in the Icky and/or Sad Man’s Club: His performance on the American Music Awards last November. Let me back up. The first time I heard Adam Lambert sing Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody in his TV audition for American Idol Season 8 [...]
(Note: If you don’t like to read blogs that criticize public figures based on their behavior, this one is not for you.) Last night around quittin’ time (OK, maybe it was a few minutes before quitting time), three co-workers and I stood around shooting the breeze. We started on the lack of affordable health care [...]
The writer Christopher Buckley and I have Dads with the same name: William Buckley. That’s why I have always figured we were related. Not in the technical sense—like family blood or marriage ties—but in a parallel lives kind of way. He’s a funny writer. I try to be a funny writer. His Dad was ultra-conservative. [...]
Over the weekend I wrote my 150th blog. I figure that equals approximately 100,000 words—about the length of a novel. It took me almost six months. At this rate— technically—I could write two novels a year. But that’s not realistic. OK, it is if you’re Nora Roberts, who publishes FIVE novels PER YEAR. Whew! She [...]
When it comes to participating as an athlete in the Olympics, “party” and “have fun” on your own time. If you’re talented enough to be an Olympic-caliber athlete and make the trials, count your blessings. You’ve been given a gift. If you make the Olympic team, count your BIGGER blessings. You’ve been given a BIGGER [...]
Last Sunday in my weekly phone chat with my Dad, he told me he almost had a car accident. While trying to find Costco, he got lost. It was dark and raining and he couldn’t see the off-ramp signs. Either could the guy in front of him. But as my Dad continued to drive and [...]
Last month I tried to take Frankie on an outing. I had wanted him to hear a lecture by Michael Pollan, the how-to-eat-right guru and author of several best-selling books about food, which I had read, but Frankie did pay attention to. I also heard Mr. Pollan as a guest on Wait Wait Don’t Tell [...]
Years ago when I lived in Southern California I used to take my Mom to the movies on Sundays. We both loved attending a matinee and of course (you know Frankie), grabbing a bite afterwards. My Mom had two requirements about going to the movies: 1. The movies theater had to have FRESH popcorn with [...]
