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- Green Day: Hardest Working, Hardest Playing, and BEST Band in America
- Let Obama Have His Religion (which is the one about Jesus)
- The Barbara Boxer vs. Carly Fiorina Debate: A California Woman’s Perspective
- FW NOW Award Presented to the Inestimable Diane Rehm
- Pondering My Blog – One Year Later
- Fuchsia Woman Rates the Emmy Awards and the Important Part: the Dresses
- The Strange September Issue of Vogue: Artsy and Tacky at the Same Time
- More Menopause Mania: The Musical and the Malady
- Garrison Keillor’s Summer of Love Tour = a Summer of Bore Tour
- Birthday Lament: Can’t Live Without Them (But I Wish I Could)
- More Thoughts on Menopause the Musical and Menopause the Menace
- Menopause the Musical: A Hilarious Show About a Not-so Hilarious Subject
- Boycott Ann Taylor and Other Random Thoughts
- The Tillman Family Deserves the Truth – And So Does America
- Bad Summer Vacations: At Least They’re Memorable
- Normal Size Dress on “Mad Men” Looks Large
- Anatomy of a Blog
- Eat Pray Love the Movie: an EPL Experience Worth Experiencing
- EBay Selling Sex by Association with CraigsList
- Chris Brogan Jumps the Shark to the Dark Side (in his boneheaded support of CraigsList “Adult Services”)
- Part 2 – The Dog Days of Summer (the man’s-best-friend Lassie kind of dog)
- Part 1 – The Dog Days of Summer (the low-down mangy mutt kind-of-dog)
- Arianna Huffington Won’t Allow Uncivil Words on the Huffington Post—But She Will Allow a Young Woman’s Butt Crack
- One Person’s Uncivil Word is Another Person’s ‘Mot Juste’
- Lunch at John Steinbeck’s House (with 4 nice people and 1 killjoy)
- Judge Vaughn R. Walker Rules Correctly on California’s Prop. 8 Gay Marriage Law
- Rash HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius BLAMES AMERICANS for the Health Insurance Problem
- Thank You, State of Virginia, for Suing the Federal Government
- How NOT to Write: Like the Writer’s Almanac (from July 31, 2010)
- What to Wear: Try Oprah’s Magazine Cover Outfit
- To Chelsea Clinton: Happy Wedding Day!
- Horrifying Time Magazine Cover of Mutilated Woman
- Summer Vacation Plans Gone Astray
- How to Get a Job (Please don’t ask me if I don’t like you!)
- How to Have a Heavenly Day – Listen to Patty Griffin
- My Dress My Mother Gave Away (Without My Permission!)
- Sexiest Man Alive – Admiral Thad Allen
- Barbarella: Fashion Inspiration for Madonna and Gaga?
- Student Wins Lawsuit Against Her Homophobic School
- WEAR “Eat Pray Love”??
- Loudmouth Pants – How to Improve Your Golf Game
- Happier Chickens in California
- A Bad Business Name = Bad for Business
- Songs That Make You Laugh: by Spike Jones and Carla Ulbrich
- Barbra Streisand vs. Lea Michele: Two Amazing Versions of “Don’t Rain on My Parade”
- Inspirational Song Lyrics – Can’t Survive Without Them
- The Healing Power of Love: A Story of Three Adopted Boys
- Good Riddance to the “American” Russian Spies – What a Bunch of Wackos!
- Pricing Strategy: It’s All About the Perception of Quality
- To Erik’s Deli: How Hard Is It To Make a Salad?
- Day Jobs: Can’t Live With ’Em; Can’t Live Without ’Em
- Band of Brothers: Spirit of Brotherhood Personified; Spirit of America Exemplified
- Delivering Happiness: Tony Hsieh’s Book about Zappos’ Amazing Business Philosophy
- Happy 234th Birthday, America! (You’re Lookin’ Good but Could Look Better)
- Maria Shriver’s Premier Women’s Conference in California
- Two Spunky Matts: Matt Taibbi and Matthew Morrison & One Spunky Glee
- What do President Obama, Craig from Craig’s List, and Author Geneen Roth have in common? They all bug me!
- Geneen Roth Speaks in Santa Cruz, CA about Women, Food, and God (But is no Anne Lamott)
- How You Value Money Could Be A Relationship Killer
- Toy Story 3: Is the Theme Similar to the FaceBook Craze?
- Toy Story 3: Feast for the Eyes, Heart, and Imagination
- Obama’s Fatherhood Initiative (He Should Scold Some Mothers, Too)
- What to Wear: Jeffrey Campbell Shoes and a Ceil Chapman Dress (But Not Together)
- Celebrate Father’s Day with Real Fathers and TV Fathers from Friday Night Lights
- Father’s Day Story about Mrs. Story
- Joyce Carol Oates, Alice in Wonderland, and Bad Writing Teachers
- The Bloody Sunday Truth: Irish = Innocent; British = Murderers
- Rush Limbaugh, Pebble Beach Golf Course, and Me
- Billie Joe Armstrong Stupefies Audience at Tony Awards
- The Education of Two Eddies (by Ayelet Waldman and Me)
- Tipper, Sandra, Shania, and All the Single Ladies
- Follow the Scent – Follow My Life
- Why Write: Thoughts on Purpose, Motivation, and Encouragement
- Voting Day and the Value of Pretty – Is Meg Whitman is in Trouble?
- Black Women Love Their Weaves (According to Chris Rock’s Movie)
- Israeli Blockade of Gaza – This is NO WAY to Win Friends and Influence People
- No to Meg Whitman – Yes to Women Voting
- Maya Angelou – An Amazing Presence
- More iwearyourshirt.com pix
- Jason as Fuchsia Woman on YouTube
- Chris Rock’s “Good Hair” – Interesting Comments from Maya Angelou and Tracie Toms
- Easy Rider and Sex and the City 2: Two Road Trip Movies from Different Generations
- Fuchsia Woman on iwearyourshirt.com
- Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring – Music that Caused a Riot
- Sex and the City 2 = Friends & Fun & Fashion (and one FAB New Guy)
- The End of An Era: Farewell to American Idol’s Simon Cowell
- DVD Review: “Good Hair” Is Better than Good
- What I Learned in Traffic School (Interesting Stuff that Can Save Your Life)
- America Got Milk – And America Is The Better For It
- The Everything Is Connected Phenomenon
- Listen to “The Story” for Great Stories
- Schiaparelli Perfume Named “Shocking” is Shocking to the Nose!
- Laurice Marie Perry – Where Are You?
- Jessica Watson – Young Australian Sailor Dreams BIG
- The Cove: BEST Documentary about the WORST Situation
- William F. Buckley, Jr. – Another Member of the Icky Man’s Club
- Christian Dior – Emperor of Fashion Design
- Christian Siriano’s Fierce Fashion Book
- California Wackiness – Politics as Usual
- Offended by Craig at CraigsList
- Talking Through My Hats by Lilly Daché – A Rare Book by a A Rare Milliner
- The Walt Disney Museum: A Stimulating Experience
- Anne Lamott and Isabelle Allende – Common Thread in Writing
- May Day – What a Difference a Few Thousand Years Make
- Hugh MacLeod and Me: Separated at Birth, Philosophically Speaking
- Jane Fonda Stages National Day of Fitness at the Georgia Dome
- Natalie Merchant Sings Poems in Leave Your Sleep
- To Craig at CraigsList – Someone Needs to Get a Brain (and a Conscience?)
- The Witty Wonderful World of Anne Lamott
- Green Day Punks Out Broadway
- Saturday’s Jambalaya -Part 2
- Write Blogs = Get Shoes
- Happy Birthday Earth Day!
- Happy Anniversary Mark Twain
- Emma #1 vs. Emma #2 = America vs. Britain
- The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold, and My Sister
- Saturday’s Random Jambalaya
- Tax Cheaters Rant – Part 2
- It’s Tax Day: To Rich American Secret Swiss Bank Account Holders – Pay Your Share
- Why Customer Service is Mostly Dead in America: It’s All About Decency
- Gwyneth Paltrow and My Mom
- Lefty The Right Golfer Wins the Masters
- The Pope Has Got To Go
- A Sportsman is Not Necessarily a Sports MAN: The Story of Lance, Tiger, & Phil
- What Poetry Do You Recommend: Just Ask Ron
- What Poetry to Read: Just Ask Caroline Kennedy
- How to Write Poetry: Just Ask Maya Angelou
- How to Read Poetry: Just Ask Keats
- What Did Jesus Do on Easter SATURDAY?
- The Holy Days of Easter: What Do They Mean?
- America Has Other Fish to Fry
- Let Women Be Women – However They Want To Do That
- Boy and Girls Have the Same Math and Science Brain
- Mad Smasher Slasher on the Loose–on Capitol Hill
- Stories That Change Your Life
- In Praise of Google and Shame on Microsoft
- President Obama: If Your Own Mother Hated Insurance Companies, Why Are You FORCING Them on the American Public?
- Does the Success of Others Make You Happy or Sad?
- President Obama: Time to Build More Prisons (for Average Honest Hardworking Americans)
- Hugh MacLeod: Thinker, Cartoonist & Businessman
- How NOT to Conduct Business – A Lesson for My Ex-Insurance Guy
- Oprah’s Skirt to Save the Dolphins!
- Happy Saint Patty’s Day to My Adopted Peeps
- Health, Happiness, and Harmony With the Cosmos – Fun Times at the New Living Expo
- The Oprah Skirt Saga Continues…
- Hell Hath No Fury Like a Writer With a Righteous Grudge
- I Bought Oprah’s Skirt (!??)
- The End of Cursive Writing?
- A 9-1-1 Letter to the Morgan Hill, CA Police Department
- FuchsiaWoman Rates the Red Carpet Dresses at the Academy Awards
- Anna Wintour and Grace Coddington: Vogue Magazine’s Dynamic Duo
- Anna Wintour: Psychological Insights (from behind those shades)
- Add Anna Wintour to the Successful but Icky Woman’s Club
- Foodie Michael Pollan Speaks – San Jose, CA
- FuchsiaWoman Now Award – Two Industrious and Conscientious Girl Scouts
- Boycott Palm Oil – Don’t Buy Cookies (Nabisco, Pepperidge Farms, Keebler OR the Girl Scouts)
- Girl Scout Cookies are Killers
- Miss Ashley Judd: Winner of ‘Prestigious’ FuchsiaWoman Now Award
- Adam Lambert says, “What Do You Want From Me?” I say, “Read This Post.”
- The Icky Man’s Club
- Me, Christopher Buckley, and Our Dads
- Reflections on Writing Blogs
- Olympians: World-Class Athletes Need World-Class Behavior
- A Driving Tale
- Read About Food By Michael Pollan
- Inglourious Basterds: My Mom Would Have Loved It!
- The Frankie Chronicles: Tales of a Tumultuous Tummy – Part 3
- President’s Day AND Susan B. Anthony’s Birthday
- Give Yourself a Valentine
- Me & Rewa (the Monkee Thief!) Part 2
- Me, Rewa, and Micky Dolenz – Part 1
- A Valentine for Roger, Pete, and Stevie
- Love Letters and Love Poems
- Kicked Out of Church – Twice
- Claire Danes – Actress and Clueless Temptress
- Temple Grandin – Astute Autistic
- Tales of a Tumultuous Tummy
- Why I Will Never Starve Myself
- How Important Is the Sense of Smell?
- A Smell Lesson in an Irish Movie
- Sandra Day O’Connor – A Woman of Justice
- Howard Zinn: 1922-2010 – A Tribute
- Hooray for France!
- The Resilient Writer: Good Adjective; Not So Good Book
- Justice John Paul Stevens Has It Right
- Cindy McCain and Haiti – Both Need Assistance
- The Death of America
- Obama’s First Year = Obaminable*
- Martha Coakley – What Were You Thinking?
- Oprah’s Words Hit Home
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – Best Speech Ever
- Golden Globe Hopefuls – Meryl Streep and Sandra Bullock
- The Many Forms of American Music
- Your Sense of Smell – Very Valuable to Your Health
- Lilly Daché – Queen of Snoods and Hats of Yesteryear
- U.S.C. Hires Questionable Football Coach
- Jerry Yang – Moral Pygmy Forever?
- Science Lesson: “Rrhea” Bodily Conditions
- What’s Up with the Ugly Uganda Government?
- Things That Haunt You For Life
- Governor Schwarzenegger – We Think Alike (Shock!)
- American Idol – More Ranting About America’s Favorite TV Show
- I Will Miss Paula Abdul
- Broken Resolution – I Watched American Idol
- Gird Your Loins for 2010 (And Make a Fashion Statement)
- Apply AAPS Every Day – Let’s Start a Movement
- The End of the Awful Aughts – The Decade of the ’00s = a Big Zero!
- The Rise of AAPS (and a Bubbly Champagne)
- Cheers! Veuve Clicquot Champagne
- Celebrate the New Year with Benedictine Monk Dom Perignon’s Creation
- Fantastic News Story 2009 – A Father Fights On!
- Another New Year’s Resolution: Get More Guts (Like Anne and Ayelet)
- Christmas Wishes and Christmas Form Letters – Part 3
- More Dreaded Christmas Letters – Part 2
- Writers – Give Yourself a Christmas Gift: Your Own BLOG
- What NOT to Write: Christmas Form Letters – Part 1
- A Not So Merry Christmas Story
- Greetings of the Season from Fuchsia Woman and Friends
- Here’s to a Healthy 2010
- Green Day’s “21st Century Breakdown” – Best Album 2009
- Green Day’s “American Idiot” – Album of the Decade
- Great Date Conclusion – Part 3
- New Year’s Resolutions 2010
- A Not So Great New Year’s Eve
- Great Date Story (Prelude) – Part 2
- A Not So Great Date
- Great Date Story – Part 1
- President Obama: Stay Away From My Body (Part 2)
- President Obama – Quit Begging for Money! (Part 1)
- The Meaning of Golf Clubs
- Great Dates – Ever Had One?
- I’m Fascinated by Fascinators
- Up the Movie: Uplifting, Upstanding, and Up There for Best Movie of 2009
- “We’ve Only Just Begun” – To Tell the Truth
- 2nd FuchsiaWoman Award Recipient
- Gone Shopping…
- A Thanksgiving Story
- No Respect = No Customers = No Business
- In Memoriam to My Beautiful Friend Lorrie
- I Heart Adam Lambert’s Voice – But NOT His Performance (Part 2)
- Me, My Bro & Barnes & Noble – More Freak-Out Tales from O.C. – Part 4
- Me, My Dad, My Bro & Calif. Pizza Kitchen: More Freak-Out Tales from O.C. – Part 3
- Me, My Dad, & Macy’s: More Freak-Out Tales from O.C. – Part 2
- Me, My Dad & the Apple Store: Freak-Out Tales from O.C. – Part 1
- I Heart Adam Lambert – Part 1
- “Food, Inc.” – If You Eat It, You Must Watch It
- 1st “Fuchsia Woman Now” Award Winner
- Maria and Nicole: Way to Strut
- Dapper Dresser Michael Chabon at Book Reading in Oakland, CA
- What Are You Afraid Of?
- Podcast #5: What NOT to Wear when Meeting Hippies
- President Obama: Hope Is Sooo Last Year
- What to BLOG About? Blog Topics Are Everywhere!
- See John Irving or Visit Your Dad?
- A Happy-Ending Hemorrhoids Story
- Let Ceara Wear a Tux
- If You Really Want to Write, You’ll Write – Just Ask Laura Hillenbrand
- Relating in the Classroom – Part 5
- The Writing Life Paradox – Stay Inside and Go Outside
- David Sedaris in Concert – In My Living Room
- A Great Day for Reading
- A Change Is Gonna Do You Good….
- For Your Listening Pleasure…
- Have American Directors Lost Their Minds?
- Ralph Lauren – You are Bad for America!
- Writing Is Difficult: So?
- Born Creative – Stay Creative
- Good-bye, Gourmet Magazine and Hello, Splendid Table!
- U.S.C. School Spirit? Yes and No.
- Thoughts on Writing…
- Words: Ain’t They Grand
- Fashion Update #2: Ridiculously-Priced Designer Clothes
- What’s Up With Gourmet Cooking?
- AT&T Will Rip You Off AND Urinate On Your House
- KISS – Ehh; Gene Simmons – Ick!
- Gray Gardens: Not-to-Miss Documentary and HBO Movie
- Don’t Sell Your House for Romance
- Elizabeth Edwards – How Are You Doing? Tell Your Husband He Owes Me Money
- Relating in the Classroom – Part 4
- A Hard Day’s Night – Terrific Movie Then and Now
- I Love Rock-n-Roll & Jackson Browne: The Soundtrack of My Life
- Elizabeth Gilbert – Part 2: Writer’s Block, Creativity & Writing
- A Workplace Horror Story
- Elizabeth Gilbert – Part 1: Previous Book and New Book
- Change of Scenery = Change of Attitude
- Fashion Update #1: Oprah, Mad Men, Donna Karan, Valentino, Burberry
- Roddy Doyle + Irish History = Literary Barn-Burner
- Relating in the Classroom – Part 3
- What NOT to Wear When Meeting Hippies
- Don’t Give Up – Even in a hot sweaty exhausting Jr. High School event
- A Visit to the Tobin James Winery in Paso Robles, CA
- Relating in College
- Valentino: Good Guy, Better Designer, Best Friend
- How To Write Well
- Thoughts on September 11, 2001
- Relating in the Classroom – Part 2
- Celebrities Are the Same as You and I
- Lubna Hussein: You Are a Fuchsia Woman!
- Patti Davis: You Are On To Something
- Music Can Save Your Life
- Bratty Behavior May NOT Get You In Trouble
- Relating in the Classroom – Part 1
- President Obama: You Hoodwinked Me
- Go Read Anne Lamott
- A Passion for Fashion
- Mad for “Mad Men”
- Kristina Train: A Beautiful New Voice on the Horizon
- Homosexuals Are Not Weirdos
- Find Chris Issak a Wife!
- Can Watching TV be Hazardous to Your Brain?
- America Can Do Better
- The Writing Life