Where Troubles Melt Like Lemondrops

Have you seen the Kirtsy slideshow on the Super Bowl. I love the game…if only because Kirtsy was created five years ago right in the middle of it. My favorite item mentioned…the Greatest Snack Bowl Stadium Ever Built. Okay, I might be insane (like, for real this time) but I’m kinda digging this craziness from [...]

I wrote a post on Hitting Refresh today that started to be about our trip to see the Harlem Globetrotters this past weekend. But then it turned into something about Beyonce and gender equality and pantsing. It includes a few choice quotes from Harry: Harry regarding the GOP candidates: “It’s weird, Mom. They all have white [...]

The words crystal and chandelier creep me out. Put them together and, I don’t know, weird. I get that this is overly irrational, but shopping for crystal chandeliers is unsettling.  It makes me think of bawdy Old (Mae) West brothels, or snobby Marie Antoinette, or the stranger parts of the 1970s.  But my MIL sent me [...]

Above photo by Better in Bulk. As I know I’ve mentioned before, my friend Jenny is always coming up with these fantastic things that make her (and others) furiously happy. You probably know about our Beyonce adventure. And the Twilight wolf costume dance off. And the time she and her readers saved Christmas. But now, as we’re looking ahead, [...]