Welcome to my life simple plan

Welcome to my life simple plan

Thank you EMPIRE!

Juno was included in Empire magazine’s 500 Greatest Movies of All Time. (See the entry here.)
I am agape with shock. I love the Brits.
(My personal favorites from the list include Fight Club, Boogie Nights, Almost Famous and perennial Number Onesie The Godfather. How about you?)
In other news, I love Billy Joel and I don’t […]

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SOMEONE MUST HAVE DIED (with replies)

A long lost best friend called me Friday…just to tell me someone we used to work with had died. We started talking about all our other co-workers. Were they still alive? A few of them were pretty old.

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dear assholes - an open letter to my irritating neighbor

so, when i saw 5 dudes fucking with the pool gate and trying to jimmy it open while i was swimming with my niece, i was irritated.  this is the 3rd time we’ve had to put in new pool locks because of that bull shit.  then, they jumped the fucking fence, with a bunch more […]

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SOMEONE MUST HAVE DIED

A long lost best friend called me Friday…just to tell me someone we used to work with had died. We started talking about all our other co-workers. Were they still alive? A few of them were pretty old.

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I’VE GOTTA BE A GOOD GIRL NOW?

It’s a young adult novel — you know, about TEENAGERS. I have no idea why I’m writing about teenagers but it seems to be what I keep coming back to. When I first started writing novels, at the age of 25 or so, I was writing for young adults. I didn’t want to have to […]

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How did we get into this mess?

In 1916, a financial writer named Bertie Charles Forbes (who later founded the Forbes Magazine; the present editor, Malcolm Forbes, is his son), wrote:

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TAKE MY HAND

Of the 850 blogs I’ve posted since March 2006, this is one of my 8 favorites.

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FREELOADER? OR HOPELESS ROMANTIC?

There’s an old “dating rule” that says a man should pay for everything. In the dating process, he’s trying to win her over…he’s COURTING her. That means buying her things, taking her out for fancy dinners, doing everything he can to “romance” her.

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liberry dayz - who loves ya baby?

ok, you don’t HAVE to vote for me, but vote for someone, i know you all have a librarian you love out there!

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THE DANGERS OF BOTTLED WATER

Yeah, sounds nice and healthy. Except my water always contains one of these:

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