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

May 23, 2011
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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 […]

Posted in: life, satire, women

Communal Dressing Rooms: Where Dreams Go to Die

May 20, 2011
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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
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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 […]

Posted in: baby, childbirth, humor, satire

Life in the Fear-Free Lane

May 17, 2011
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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, […]

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My Psychic Menage-A-Trois

May 15, 2011
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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 […]

Posted in: humor, life, satire

Bristol Palin:Plastic Surgery-ing With the Stars

May 12, 2011
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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 […]

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Gotta Love Joisey

May 10, 2011
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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 […]

Posted in: humor, memories, satire

Boomer World News

May 9, 2011
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Boomers who need something to be alarmed about other than the 101 year old Chinese woman who is growing horns on her forehead can choose from the following:  New research finds significant facial acne can persist well into adulthood, according to www.webmd.com.  When informed of this, a group of unnamed Boomers said, “This isn’t exactly […]

Young American Wisdom

May 7, 2011
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Lucky me. The author of a new blog, www.youngamericanwisdom.com, commented on my post and so I checked her out.  She quotes her kids, then riffs about the quote.  This is a brilliant idea for a blog, and she does it so well. Check her out. (Note: I have received no compensation for this endorsement.  Damn. )

Posted in: blogging, humor

The Person Whisperer

May 7, 2011
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  I’ve been sick for the past few days.  My vocalizations have become quite unique.  If Donald Trump’s hair could talk, this is the voice it would have.  I do a lot of whispering, so as to protect pregnant women and small children.  Here’s what I discovered: Whisper, and the world whispers with you.  Reveal […]

Posted in: humor, illness, life, satire