February 2012

The Facts of Life

February 28, 2012

Last month my husband Greg and I attended my niece’s wedding.  At the reception dinner afterward we sat with my sister and her daughter and granddaughter Sammy. During the meal Sammy (a nine-year-old) said she wasn’t sure if she wanted to eat her salad because it had bacon on it and she had never had [...]

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Oscars Schmascars

February 27, 2012

Just a few notes about the show. If the general consensus is that the show sucked, then my husband Greg and I agree.  But if the consensus is that the show was great, then Greg and I thought the show sucked. For me, the high point of this year’s Oscar telecast was Robert Downey, Jr. [...]

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Jeni’s Splendid

February 26, 2012

Any readers enjoy ice cream? Yeah, me neither… There is a terrific little ice cream chain in Columbus, Ohio called Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams. My boy Raven told me about them a while back and my husband Greg and I had a couple of opportunities to give them a try. We stopped by Jeni’s on [...]

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Fwd: Memo from God

February 24, 2012

This morning God faxed me down a memo clarifying his position on a certain topic near and dear to me, and he asked me to spread the word. So here goes: To my children whom I love dearly, and also to Republicans: Remember when I advised that a man should not lay with another man [...]

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I Just Converted Two Dead Mormons to Homosexuality*

February 22, 2012

*And I liked it! Try it yourself here.

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Another Cat Name? Really?

February 20, 2012

I just saw that Apple will soon release another update to its Mac desktop operating system, called OS X “Mountain Lion”.  This is the latest in a long string of cat names: Cheetah, Puma, Jaguar, Panther, Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard, Lion, and now Mountain Lion. What’s next? OS X Pussy? And how long is this [...]

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Shocker: My Alma Mater Did the Right Thing

February 16, 2012

I live a few miles away from the University of Dayton (UD), my alma mater. You wouldn’t know it from its purely secular name, but it is a Catholic university, run by the Society of Mary. Over the last few weeks there has been a lot of hubbub here in the U.S. regarding the government’s [...]

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Tongue Twister

February 15, 2012

It didn’t start out that way, but that’s how it ended up. “It seems seamen seen at sea are soon to see men seeking steaming semen seed on the seat seam at the seaside scene.”

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