apropos of anything

In the spring, there are daffodils, and the daffodils look lovely today.
They begin popping up in February, sometimes as early as late January, courtesy of a Georgia winter that, by northern standards, is usually more tepid than cold. Some are bright yellow, some are pale yellow, some are a combination, and they are all so [...]

This morning, it was which color scarf to wear when your pants are gray and your scarves are, well, less gray. Black? Funny colored gray? Light gray? Pink? I chose one of my black from-Saudi scarves because I love the way it fits on my head and doesn’t move (much). Also, pink wasn’t really an [...]

Today is somebody’s birthday. Not somebody in the grand scheme of the world, because, duh, but somebody I know personally. The problem is, I can’t remember who it is. Also, I think it may be several somebodies, at least one of whom I may no longer be in touch with because she is my old [...]

Dear Parking Attendants of the World,
When I pull up to your booth and hand you my ticket, I expect you to tell me how much I owe you, take my money, and maybe, possibly, make a few tiny moments of small talk about, say, the weather. I do NOT expect you to flirt with me. [...]

I feel like I’ve been traveling for months. I think that would be because I HAVE been traveling for months. It’s been a long time (read: Thanksgiving) since I’ve had my regular work-home-Augusta schedule, and let me tell you, the nastiness that is my house is simply awful to behold. I’d post pictures, except then [...]

This morning when the boxes of Dunkin Donuts arrived, we opened one and found a dozen heart-shaped donuts. Heart-shaped. All they needed was little pink hearts to make send us all into sugar overload, in more ways than one.
It’s good, then, that immediately afterward, we engaged in an artery-clogging second breakfast at Wheaton’s own Egglectic [...]

Me and baby Amal after the funeral

There was an interesting story on CNN.com’s Science and Space section earlier this week about an outcast star that fled the Milky Way at the same time that its companion star got sucked into a black hole. Thinking on terms that large is always, shall we say, broadening — this was no 60 mph star [...]

With the “YOU” being Leta, and the “here” being gate L9 at O’Hare International Airport. The odds aren’t as high as they might be, considering Leta lives in Chicago, but it’s still highly coincidental that we’d both be on a plane to Atlanta. Especially since that wasn’t my original flight; I had myself bumped to [...]

Can somebody, anybody, PLEASE tell me what’s going on with Debra Messing’s hair in the promos for The Wedding Date? It’s so sharp and frizzy at the bottoms, and it looks like it’s been plastered to her head. Also dyed badly, although I thought she was a natural redhead. I can’t watch even ten seconds [...]