Just putting this here in case anyone missed Justine Musk’s piece on being married to the muskrat: https://www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/a5380/millionaire-starter-wife/

Soy sauce, butter and a little lemon juice at the end is my go-to glaze for most sauteed vegetables. 

John Malkovich on set KNITTING?!?!

I am, I am. And their parents know the gist of what I’m telling them (their mom *is* my bestie ... so). 

I don’t have kids of my own, but am Auntie to my BFFs 5 (and their friends). THIS IS MY ROLE. I give the advice, and because I am not a wife, nor a mother, but an independent lady, “my girls” usually take it. Granted, I didn’t expect to become the Auntie of Sex Advice, but well, we don’t get to pick and choose. 

Oh! That last meme makes me cry. Those photos are from Joes’ son’s funeral. 

Yup. Said it above. Works great when you’re only doing a couple of home pizzas -- 

We live in a pizza desert, and I swear by Nancy Silverton’s recipe in her Mozza cookbook. Not a 30 minute dough, but delicious. My other trick is to use parchment paper to get the pizza off the peel and onto the stone, then you can tug the pizza back out of the oven using the paper. 

This has been going on for a while — we were all “informed” that (guilted/pressured to) we could donate PTO to a co-worker whose baby is a high school freshman now. Of course that was back when I was a “regular” employee instead of a contractor.

Ah yes, but still pales in comparison to the year a cement mixer lost its brakes on the Kingsbury grade (92? 93?), flew through the red light, and crashed onto the course. Driver managed to turn the truck, keep it off the greens, and dump in a creek bottom, hurting neither himself nor any spectators or golfers. Johnny…

When my BFF was pregnant with twins (after a stillbirth) we drove 1.5 hours to the hospital with a NICU on the regular. Like weekly. It was terrifying. If you go into a difficult labor here you wind up on the helicopter. 

So much for that whole “Putin’s not a thug” thing the Nation has been pushing for the past 5 or 6 years. So much so that we cancelled our subscription after 30 years. 

I had to carry my brother’s ashes through TSA, in an small airport where they’re ALWAYS assholes. I had a note from the funeral home, and took a big xanax, and had 2 friends with me because if they’d done ANYTHING I would have lost my shit and wound up in jail. My deepest sympathies to Mr. Francis ...

Here’s the hope we’re clinging to in MT. In a state of just under a million people, he only pulled 6500 for the rally (also a state that went +20 for him). My small town parade was noticeably silent when Gianforte and the GOP marched (as opposed to last year when there were cheers). Big cheers for the Dems this year,…

I’ve only had to mention it once, well, my brother did. Excused himself to go to the loo, took the waiter aside and said “Look, that’s our father, and we haven’t seen him in 10 years, so we won’t be flipping the table. But we will leave a big tip.” Worked a charm. We had a lovely evening, left a big tip, and it was…

And for GODS SAKE PEOPLE -- don’t hover right behind another group. Either hike through and go on, or drop back. Nothing is worse than someone sticking 20 feet behind you, chattering ... 

There’s a GoFundMe here for funeral expenses. Which although every part of that sentence breaks my heart, at least provides us with a way to help: https://www.gofundme.com/antwon-m-rose-ii-memorial-fund

Yeah, if you’d told me that I’d find lifelong happiness with someone who doesn’t eat vegetable (but who is yelling from the next room about “the noble root crops!” — carrots and potatoes). My dude is not an adventurous eater, which makes me crazy when we go to a city and he doesn’t want to find dim sum — but I just…

I’ve had this paragraph from the Introduction to The Nasty Bits over my writing desk for years:

I’ve posted this a couple of places on Twitter today — but just FYI. I’m a year younger than Kate Spade, and menopause sent me into the 1st real depressive episode of my life (I grew up in a family of depressives). I have no idea if this was her experience at all, but while there’s a chance, I just want to alert…