Last Friday I ignorantly wrote the following on my Facebook status… …because somewhere in my online traipsing for maps of Solvang, CA, I read that it’s a Dutch village. Well, it’s not. And what kind of journalist would I be if I let the mistake stand without correction? I have a dubious blogging responsibility to […]
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I Have This Pain on My Right Side
Have you ever walked into a room full of sullen face people and said “Hey! Who died?” and then wished you didn’t? Because someone did? Or perhaps you’ve found other ways to put your foot in your mouth. Perhaps you weren’t aware that your friend Trixie is still sensitive about her sons’s sex change operation […]
Duct Duct Juice
Junk mail pisses me off, unless it suits me. I thumb through the thirty-some-odd coupons in that blue direct mail envelope that arrives every Wednesday, ignoring all the plastic surgery and dry cleaning ads, and once in a great while a gem is revealed. The recent remodeling in my condo seems to have created a […]





