It Was My Birthday – Dammit.

| January 28, 2011

Okay, so my birthday was a couple of days ago. I’m okay with admitting that I’m 35 now, unless my dad’s around and then I only admit to being 25 because, as my dad puts it, that’s a win-win situation for both of us. But, for the record 35 is not old. It’s not! Having [...]

Happy New Year – Welcoming 2011

| December 30, 2010

Sooo, it looks like Cabo San Lucas and St. Bart’s are the top hot spots for New Year’s for the A-listers this year. Those of us regular joes probably aren’t jetting off for Costa Rica vacations and are instead opting to stick a little closer to home on what my husband calls, “amateur drinking night.” [...]

And so it begins…

| November 3, 2010

It’s that time of year… my Halloween decorations are put away, I’ve got my Thanksgiving/Fall stuff up already and Christmas carols playing. I’m starting to get that giddy feeling I usually get this time of year and I know I’m only a few weeks away from pulling out the Christmas decorations and reliving all the [...]

Laugh and Death? Revisited.

| June 7, 2010

“I saw the destruction of Dresden. I saw the city before and then came out of an air-raid shelter and saw it afterward, and certainly one response is laughter. God knows, that’s the soul seeking some relief… Humor is an almost physiological response to fear. Freud said that humor is a response to frustration – [...]

Dawgnawt BBQ Team

| June 8, 2009

Last weekend was the big event… the one we’ve been practicing for, the Bakersfield Biggest Baddest Barbecue Championship 2009! After months of tweaking websites and eating loads of Mike’s barbecue everything came down to late (very late) Friday night right up to noon on Saturday. They say that competitions are won or lost within the [...]