This is The Thing

When I was a kid, I talked a lot. In other words, very little has changed. And I do have other words — have no doubt. I have a lot of them. One thing that has changed is this — when I was a kid, there were certain settings in which I was not “supposed [...]

I used to be a commedienne/musician. I did this for money, and for pleasure, and I received some acclaim. I think that I was pretty funny as a comic. I think that I can sing well enough to carry a tune and bring a song off, and play guitar well enough to back myself up, [...]

I realized, in my head-shaving post, that I had another story to tell about hair. I held back. I didn’t follow through. I thought the side-stories had reached a limit. But it continues to simmer in my head, so here it is: After I shaved my head, and some hair grew back, I dyed my [...]

This Post was originally begun on January 4, 2006. Thanks to my Commenters, it will finally appear. Strangely (not so strangely) it has become pertinent again, for reasons I will divulge after June 3rd, 2006. ——————————————————————- WHY I HAVE NOT SHAVED MY HEAD (RECENTLY) Well, at this moment in time, to answer honestly, I think [...]

Yesterday afternoon, I shaved my legs. Lest you begin trembling at this statement, thinking “Oh My God — she said she was going to blog every day! Does this mean we are going to have to read every mundane detail of her life from here on out? Is this the torture that I’m in for?”, [...]

One of the things about being “very psychic” is that I find that I’m not often truly surprised. Oh, sure, once in a while something happens that I didn’t anticipate — and God always seems to find a way to include little daily delights that are unexpected — but it’s pretty rare that I experience [...]

On Saturday, I got a “rejection” letter. I had submitted the text of one of my favorite blog entries — God and the Spin Doctor — to my favorite radio show — “This American Life” for consideration. By the way, if you have never experienced This American Life, I will just state here, for the [...]

A commenter asked “Will you speak in Kansan more often?” And so, I will oblige with a brief primer on Kansan, so that readers from other parts of the globe may comprehend. Note to reader: There is a book called “How to Talk Midwestern”, but since it covers only a basic lexicon, rather than grammatical [...]

Last Tuesday, I woke up with the little nigglings of a cold. I made a deal with my body that I would “pretend to be sick” for the next two days, giving it the same care and attention that I would have if the cold went full-bore — and it worked. I spent Wednesday and [...]

Okay, here’s what I did with my free time today: Meet Frank and Fritz (left and right respectively). They are now guarding our front porch atop their thrones of plastic pot (courtesy of our backyard pile ‘o junk, where all discarded potting equipment must eventually end its tawdry life or, apparently, find a happier fate [...]