The La-La Sisterhood
I spent last weekend in Ft. Lauderdale with friends I’ve known since the early 1980s. We have a ton of memories from our teenage and college years. Now Cathy, Julie, and I are making memories from an adventure known as middle age.
Girl-bonding during a three-day marathon of enjoyable conversation is good for the soul.
Eggplant Parmesan-pizza [...]
Childhood, adult, middle age: the journey from cute to comatose
Amber, Jackie, and I have been friends since high school. (I’m using different names and identifying characteristics, so that jail time may be avoided.) Over the years, our conversations have changed along with our hairstyles and threshold for pain.
This has never been more apparent than in the last few weeks. We used to talk about [...]
Ten years of two
I did something the other day I swore I’d never do.
No, I’m not talking about voting Republican or driving through downtown Gainesville. I’m talking about something truly embarrassing and unworthy of a former punk queen who hung out in Ybor City before they installed street lights.
I put together 77 of my children’s photos for [...]
My annual newsletter
‘Tis the season for holiday cards and form letters. That’s right. Check out those cards and one or two are usually stuffed with an annoying newsletter. Some family you hardly talk to sends along an impressive list of achievements designed to catch you up. It’s filled with boring anecdotes about the family vacation in Paris, [...]
Thoughts and concerns (while fighting the good fight)
I’m not comfortable posting details about my health right now. Not sure why. Maybe because writing a scene is challenging when you don’t know how the story ends?
(Besides, you have my number.)
If you don’t, scour the restrooms at Skipper’s Smokehouse. Or wait until I write about it (when I’m damn good and ready.)
Until then…deal with [...]
Happy Thanksgiving
If you find yourself with a group of people you try to avoid the rest of the year, here’s how to get through the holiday meal with a smile.
Enjoy your day.
Later Hater
When people get sick, they often experience an epiphany of one kind or another. A few might rediscover love, others commit to a healthier lifestyle while some suddenly choose Jesus as their personal savior. They decide that life is too short to pretend these truths don’t exist for them and make commitments in their lives [...]
Republicans for rape and other fun issues
Republicans to American Women: Bros Before Hos
A few weeks ago, Darling Rachel talked about Senator Franken’s first course of action – an amendment to the Department of Defense Appropriations Act. This piece of legislation prohibits our government from contracting with companies (coughHalliburtoncough) that prevent their employees from utilizing the U.S. justice system when they’ve been raped or sexually [...]
One of the dangers of having your own website…
Is that you sometimes run the risk of writing a post that’s too personal.
I’ve done that from time to time.
In the very beginning, I actually posted entries from a diary I kept in the mid to late 1980s. (1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989, and 1990 – go ahead and read them. You’re in there.)
Since [...]
Essentially, getting older is sort of a bitch.
Two months from my fortieth birthday, I’ve never looked or felt better.
Considering my high school and college years, this is pretty remarkable. I used to scare people with oversized t-shirts, an abrasive attitude, and hair that could withstand fifty-knot winds.
But now, after discovering exercise, obtaining a decent wardrobe allowance and growing my hair *down* instead [...]
Catherine Durkin Robinson
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she’s crafty
