Time to put on my grannie panties When I first heard the former education secretary Margaret Spellings advise incoming White House Press Secretary Dana Perino that it was time to put on her “big girl panties” I was awestruck. I felt no better phrase captured what women […]
As I walk out of Grand Central station and head to work, I am bombarded with advertisements with all sorts of wild claims. Some juices cure you of Vitamin D deficiencies and some airlines have enough legroom that you can stretch out and not develop deep vein thrombosis. […]
Literal, physical and existential sticky situations while traveling If you love to travel and do it quite often, then you must have a hardy core and quick-thinking brain (of sorts). Cultural and language misunderstandings are the items Du jour oftentimes while out on the road. I […]
Saunter and idle banter Chatter about non-matters Substance oozed out long before Your dog days of yore A deep hardy hearty laugh So muddy one needs a bath Your burrowed pensive looks Are all for your callously baited hooks I am not your marionette I don’t bow to […]
A daily ritual Woke to a growing sprinkled field of yellow Chirping musical notes throughout the spectrum An owl hoots into the sunrise The rabbits scamper and mightily sniff Nearly forgot this was no serene monticello Instead I lay waste to a thorny plectrum Plucking out all […]
The early bird gets the worm plus all the extra work I am generally up at the crack of dawn. If I wake up at 7am, I am waking up either an hour too late or it is a sunday. My son appears to have the early bird […]
Wait! Did I wear this dress yesterday? Much has been made of the fact that both Michelle Obama and Kate Middleton have worn some of their dresses on more than one occasion. Apparently, it is a major social faux pays in the celebrity world to wear a dress […]
Seven and a half things to do this spring Monday to feel the spring-hue happy blues It is a lovely spring morning in New York today, despite it being a Monday. Indeed it is a blue sky Monday with the chubby squirrels gathering up their nuts on the picnic […]
What my spam email says about me… or not I try to not take many things personally. I laugh and giggle a lot and get over arguments fairly quickly. I most assuredly hardly ever get bothered by the crazy things staff or partners have to say. […]
Mellow yellow is all a state of mind, bubbles and a racing heartbeat For the past three years, although I work what seems to be a 24/7 shift, there is one thing that I treat myself to. Despite work-load storms and flurries of paper strewn about the […]
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