A during-commercial-break conversation about an irritating chickey-type female of our common acquaintance.
Me: She’s one of those women who just are like that, you know?
Mr.Everyday: All women are like that.
Me: *raising eyebrow*
Mr.Everyday: *in his usual failed save manner* What? Look at it objectively. Don’t just react because you’re a woman! You’re a writer, after all.
Me: I write about women and relationships, babe.
Just found out that in a particular group of people I know, I’m the woman most men are attracted to. Does that make me feel good? Not. Not as much as it should, considering I’m sworn to thinking like a man. If I were to really think like a man,…
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier My rating: 2 of 5 stars Is it possible to deal with bullies without carnage? How are power structures, formal and otherwise, shaken by one person’s defiance? The turbulence of adolescence, where every event is a phenomenon, every disagreement is a war and the…
General zingers· You deserve an Oscar for the best impersonation of a human being that I’ve ever seen.· If I were politically correct, I’d refer to you as cranially challenged· Of course there are a lot of people who care about you; they call themselves PETA· They named an element…
Soon, it will be 9yrs since I made one of the few impulsive decisions of my life. It is a decision I’ve been punished for over & over.
I actually wrote this post five months ago. I feel more confident about bringing this out so here it is for your reading pleasure!
I’m in a relationship.
Phil Collins tells me that, A friend’s mother imparts the following wisdom on men and marriage, “Don’t expect any kind of sense for about 3 years. After that they kind of settle down.” PATIENCE is a virtue, apparently a prized one for a woman. Me? I never met a man…
