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An Award, An Acknowledgement, and a Pope for Dinner

May 31, 2011 by

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Territerri of www.intomystic.wordpress.com just gave me the Versatile Bloggers Award.  Territeri is special for a couple reasons, the least of which is that she has a repeating name (think John John Kennedy). TT writes about her life in a way that makes me want to grab my coffee cup, pull up a chair, and join in.  […]

Bring Me the Head of the Pope

May 26, 2011 by

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Some years back, Now Husband Dan acquired, in a very interesting and not-for-public consumption way, a much-larger-than life-size exact replica of the head of Pope John Paul II.  The sculptor was a friend of his.  We are neither Catholic nor Big Head collectors.  For this reason,the larger-than-life-size likeness of a deceased pope’s head didn’t fit […]

Not the Oscars, But Sort of Better

May 25, 2011 by

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This morning, after waking up, looking in the mirror and seeing two completely different people represented on my head, I began to muse on the medicinal uses of Spanx. It was then that my intellectual reverie was interrupted by being alerted that I had received a “Versatile Blogger Award” from Coming East.  As the recipient, I must tell you […]

I’ll Have A Cut, Color, and Formaldehyde, Please

May 23, 2011 by

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I have curly hair.  No, wait.  I have CURLY HAIR.  Like in “You can be a really good person and deserve good things in life, but I am Your Hair and I will screw you everyday of your life by being completely out of control and no matter what you do I will make you […]

Communal Dressing Rooms: Where Dreams Go to Die

May 20, 2011 by

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  I’m just as evolved as the average woman.  I’m smart, I’m funny, and I can sing “See You in September” backward.  I paint, I write, I can still recite the entire introduction to the old TV show “Superman.” I’d say I have a pretty good self-image, except for two areas of life: finding myself at […]

Labor Days

May 19, 2011 by

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Thanks to Newsweek, I now know that laughing gas is being touted as an aid during labor (the kind that ends in childbirth, rather than the kind that ends in a paycheck).  This got me to thinking about my own labors, in 1975, 1976, and 1980.  This was shortly after husbands began routinely appearing in […]

Life in the Fear-Free Lane

May 17, 2011 by

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I hadn’t intended to start a blog.  What I had intended to do was to write articles for women over 50, and to use humor to get my point across.  When the opportunity to write for examiner.com, came up, this gave me a framework within which to write. I wrote my pieces, and after awhile, […]

My Psychic Menage-A-Trois

May 15, 2011 by

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  To celebrate my birthday, two friends (Roni and Susan) and I went to a psychic. This was no ordinary psychic.  This was a psychic who had been on TV and who cavorted with other famous psychics and who was here for a one-time-only event.  I was sold. Count me in and take my hard-earned […]

Bristol Palin:Plastic Surgery-ing With the Stars

May 12, 2011 by

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In an attempt to quell the insidious rumors going around that she has had plastic surgery, Bristol Palin invited a reporter to her home inAlaska. “First off,” she started, this is absolutely, completely, 110% not true. I did not have plastic surgery.  I had corrective jaw surgery.  I did not want to have surgery. My doctor […]

Gotta Love Joisey

May 10, 2011 by

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I’ve had several messages from the universe lately. Some people get messages from the universe about saving countries or leading their people to freedom or fighting for human rights.  I’m not one of those people. Because I grew up in Phiadelphia, I get messages about New Jersey. I spent a lot of time at the […]