Apparently, despite Ben Affleck’s original protestations a year or so back, he has an absolutely garish tattoo that takes up the whole of his back and then some. Fast forward to this past week when Ben Affleck was photographed on a beach looking pensive and possibly horribly […]
Ok. Let me get one thing out there. Supposedly this piece here will be about the latest Spielberg movie called Ready Player One. However, I have to first declare outright my love of Easter. Ever since I was a little girl, I enjoyed it immensely. Now that […]
This past week has been hard in that I just have not been able to readily fall asleep. It is not that I am worried or necessarily stressed out. Rather, it has been that I have been caught up in a series of Netflix binges. Yes, each night […]
I saw this totally silly meme on Facebook today. Yes, I am still on Facebook. Although, I rarely post anything. I lurk more than I state. And, I barely even lurk anymore. Regardless of my lurking or non-lurking Facebook behaviors I did catch a silly meme that […]
I am not a cook. I have some dishes I can make when I am so moved. I used to love to bake but have not done so in ages. As a matter of fact, my son has baked recently more frequently than I have. He was taking […]
We all have a happy place. Even the most curmudgeon of us has a place that can fill them with some joy or perhaps less angst. I often describe myself as a curmudgeon because I am a snarky New Yorker. However, there are many that note […]
Everything these days seems to be either about personalization or psychometric profiling. I suppose that by now you have heard about the little problem that Facebook has been having the past few weeks. Apparently, according to the news media companies, voter-profiling company Cambridge Analytica harvested private data […]
They were laughing so hard that they didn’t even realize how far up they had already hiked. They had been friends since college but didn’t get a chance to see each other often. But they all had made a point to finally get together, enjoy each other […]
Look, I do not relish the thought of a major earthquake occurring in California. Just like the majority of Californians, it scares me. I look at all the new high-rises that are being built in Los Angeles, with a teeny bit of anxiety. Supposedly, these new buildings […]
Sometimes we picture the past in a way that it didn’t exist. We romanticize some past points in ways that make us nostalgic for things that never existed or happened. There is even a book by Stephanie Coontz called “The Way We Never Were” that dissects decades of our […]