It’s holiday ramp-up time! And what better way to usher in the season than to share our most dysfunctional family stories? I originally posted the story below on my “other” blog several years ago, but it still stands as my most shared seasonal delight. Meanwhile, What’s your favorite family holiday story? Include…Continue Reading
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Botox! (Oh yes I did.)
I turned 44 on Thanksgiving and although I’m so grateful for my family, friends, and health, I couldn’t help but notice my skin looks like turkey flesh. And the line between my brows resembles a gravy boat. And while I’m at it, what happened to my eyebrows? Why are they in my eyeballs? Oh,…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #209: The Crazy
(NOT a happy chucklehead.) “The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone’s neurosis, and we’d have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.” ~William Styron, 1958 I posted this on Facebook the other day and heaved a…Continue Reading
A Giveaway of Good Skin
I ranted (recanted?) about my skin and favorite skincare products over at the Trend Tribe today. Plus, there’s a giveaway of a $100 Vitamin C Serum that blew my mind.
Stories of Us
{A re-post…} Tall-tale-telling imp in the making. My dad is a master storyteller who always gets the punchline or dramatic pause just right. My siblings and I spent many nights perched on the side of our beds listening wide-eyed and rapt to tales of my dad’s haunted childhood or how his grandpa lay…Continue Reading
I’m Back and Blogging THAT
Wait until you see these characters in action. We wrapped the BlogTHAT pilot this past weekend and it turned out better than expected. You know that zen kinda feeling you get when everything is aligned? That was this – the actors, the crew, the script, the direction all came together into one huge…Continue Reading
Saying Goodbye
The other day I visited a psychic. Forget about my vow to never see a seer again; I went because I’m needful of someone who knows what’s next. Either way, she addressed some people previously in my life who I still fought saying goodbye to, completely. That’s because the thing with me is I…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #208: The Thanking
Times have been tough lately for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is this damn economy. I’ve been working hard to stay afloat on all levels and sometimes you just get tired, you know? It occurred to me that the best thing to do is make my gratitude list to…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #207: Who Was Your Believer?
In February 1978, my family moved to Buffalo Grove, Illinois from Foster City, California. Recently battered by a grumpy blizzard of legendary proportions, Chicago looked in February how I felt: tired, beat up, and gray. I’d turned 10 in November a few months earlier and hated my life. My dad took us from my beloved…Continue Reading
Warriors in Pink
I despise talking about cancer. Most of the time, I pretend it doesn’t exist so it can’t take me by surprise anymore, and I imagine that’s probably the case for some of us; but it’s the people who DO talk about cancer that kick it in its face, say NO YOU DON’T GET TO HAVE…Continue Reading
It’s OK to Not Be Cool
I was a moony kid. At the tender age of six or seven, I’d be found under a tree, looking through the branches at the clouds in some deep daze it took 85 mom-shouted “DEBORAHS!” to shake me out of. I read books while I walked to school, inadvertently wandering off the curb and into…Continue Reading
It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like a Stripper Halloween
(What my eight-year-old wants to be for Halloween) (How I see her in my THE-WHOLE-WORLD-IS-GROWING-UP-TOO-FAST-AND-BLINDLY-ACCEPTING-THE-WOMANIZATION-OF-OUR-LITTLE-GIRLS mind’s-eye.) I’d like to know what happened to kids’ Halloween costumes. Like, when did Paris Hilton start designing them? Because slutty is totally on sale at Party City. The girls just wanted simple vampire girl…Continue Reading
