Archive for November, 2006

…can pack a wallop! A friend of mine–Jennifer Angelo–is writing a fabulously funny book on germs and the people who hate them.  She needs our help with a chapter on purses.  She has discovered that one of the most recent threads of research on germs involves looking at how filthy the bottoms of women’s purses [...]

I am when it comes to TV.  I’m about to reveal top-secret information about myself that could mean the end of the world’s perception of me as the coolest person on the planet.  Yes, I know what you’re thinking.  But this will put me further in the hole of no longer coolness. I adore Murder [...]

I was just at sitemeter checking out where my avid readers are logging on from.  Well, google always guides a few interesting people to my site.  This time, someone looked up Preakness Nudity, and my post on that came up as number 3 of 11,000 or so hits for those words…Now that’s funny.  To me, [...]

When 20 guys meet at a country club for an “investement meeting” while the Pitt game is on.  That is called getting together to watch the Pitt game.  Just saying. Holiday MISC. My kids are going to implode with all the Christmas hype.  And it’s not the commercials and early decorations.  It’s me.  We’re gearing up to start [...]

Ever heard of Rolfing?  Structural integration?  Ida Rolf? I never had either, until this summer. As a matter of fact–if you know what Rolfing is and can tell me the context from which you know it, I’ll give you a prize.  A book–someone you actually want to read.  If it doesn’t cost too, too much. But [...]

There is tons of literature in the field of education that discusses the way narrative story structure is embedded in human interaction.  There’s a beginning, middle and end to everything with drama in between. Non-fiction structure is not universal and for some that explains the added difficulty kids have in making sense of it. Being [...]

I figured this out the other day.  I have a good sense of direction, but that doesn’t mean I never get lost.  I just don’t panic.  Sometimes I can literally feel North, South, East or West.  And that’s no easy feat in hilly and river-filled Pittsburgh where you often have to go south to end [...]

I don’t have a coherant post put together so I’ll just throw stuff up and see what sticks. I saw Melissa Hart the day after she lost the election.  I walked right past her table in a restaurant.  I swear she could tell I voted against her.  She scares me.  I’m sure she won’t be [...]

I am, but I’m nervous about it.  I always am.  I think that is so strange.  My mother used to lug my three sibs and myself along with her, narrating the whole process, the weightiness of it all.  Anyway, I hope my guys win.  Like, I’ll be as psyched if they win as I was [...]

…actually, I have several blogs I need to add to the blogroll, maybe catagorize things.  But since I belong to Pittsburgh’s chapter of Sisters in Crime (and there are two men who are members) and we’ve started a new blog–I’ll start with them! Check them out here or on my blogroll.  Great posts by many [...]