Here’s the thing, I have always tried to be respectful of other people’s beliefs.  Honestly, I don’t give a rat’s ass what a person has chosen to put their trust in.  If you find comfort in prayer, have at it.  If you offer to pray for me, have a go.  Whether you attend church regularly…

I’m not cheering Bill O’Reilly’s fall from grace.  Not because I think he’s innocent, but because I don’t think it will make any difference at all in our patriarchal society.  For all the many advancements women have made, we’ve not moved too far from the rape culture so wonderfully depicted in Mad Men.  I’m certainly…

I answer calls and process claims in Customer Service. No one knows better than I how contradictory this is to my personality. Nevertheless, I do a damn good job. Once I got over the feeling that any of these calls are personal (they aren’t), it’s pretty easy to get to the root of their call….

Sitting at a college classroom desk, I watch the young woman in front of me.  Every single day she reaches her right hand back and separates her long brown hair with her thumb and forefinger.  She burrows her two fingers down to the layers of hair that are closer but not quite at the base…

I’m going to reveal something about myself with this blahg: There is a Star Trek episode where the Enterprise crew finds themselves stuck in a sort of time warp where time is traveling at different speeds.  In one area of the ship, time is so slow that everything appears frozen.  In another, it is traveling…

All roads lead to Rome. This place has my eternal love.   If I were given the opportunity to live anywhere on this planet, I would choose Rome, Italy without hesitation.  The beauty, food, and history is beyond measure.  Upon arriving there for the first time many years ago, I knew within 10 minutes that…

I’ve spent the last two hours staring at a giraffe’s vagina… Words I never imagined I’d be muttering my entire life.  This is what I’ve become thanks to the internet.  Years ago, I’d have never known that this giraffe was pregnant or that she even existed.  Now, I am confident I am not the only…

I figure I better start this journey by reassuring anyone who may read this now or in the future that my husband and kids mean more to me than anything else in the world.  I say this because future posts may cause my devotion to be questioned.  I love them beyond words but I am…

Almost nothing is off limits. If something catches my fancy or strikes me in a poignant or funny way, my brain works on it until it evolves into a narrative.  I do this with just about anything I hear or see.  No one is safe except that I won’t use names unless he/she tells me…

Right after marrying in 1994, my husband and I decided that we wanted to get out of Tucson.  I didn’t mind Tucson; it was fine, but I’ve always known I wanted to leave.  When we met, my husband worked in a bank and by the time he was accepted into the FBI, he was a…

I am not for the faint-hearted and I accept this. Not surprisingly, my outspokenness and lack of filter completely contradicts my incessant need to be liked.  While the teenager in me pauses when I spot someone’s dislike of me, the middle aged woman I have become doesn’t give a flying fuck.  Don’t get me wrong;…