Yah. 33 years here. The secret? Inertia. Neither one of us wants to get off the couch to call the lawyers. ;)

And I am sharing a pint of Ben and Jerry’s peanut butter cup with my beloved as I read this to him.

Yeah, a very dear friend did this back when I was about 23. She was 44, an engineer (and graduated from Purdue back in the sixties, when not a lot of women were going into engineering. Anyway, I cleaned up. her widower found a young man with a pickup to take the couch she was sitting on when she put a bullet in her…

Floridian here. How the hell do they keep the palmetto bugs (aka cockroaches) out? Yeah, brandy. I know, but these little bastards are tough down here, I tell you.

Want unicorn poop cookie Now!

Yay! I’ll do it. I’ve already discovered what you say about skincare is true ; when I invest the time and product the final face looks much better. It will be fun and so worth it, I think.

Hi, friendly neighborhood Sephora cashier! can you help me with a question? I’m an early 50’s lady who never really had time for, or needed to, use much makeup. A few months ago, I changed careers, and now have time /need/inclination to up my makeup game. Tell me about the big beauty makeover. I am seriously…

Oh, for fuck’s sake, really?

Okay, lady. That coukd easily be construed as workplace harassment. warn her (nicely, with witnesses) to back off. Do it a couple of times for good measure. Then, unleash the lawyers(if HR doesn’t go to bat for you.

I agree, they are just wonderful together. They seem to fit each other’s personas so well. And my grandma was a sweet 18 year old Georgia farm girL when she married grandpa, who was a 36 year old Greek immigrant. They were married until she died in her 50’s.

Aww, family love. I have a Puerto Rican friend whose extended family is both white and black. She tells me they do this too. Just in spanish!

How bizarre. Rotate the balls 180 degrees, and that’s the way my half Greek dad used to sign the first letter of his name.

I love to cook, but with just the husband and myself, we have the same problem of too much food,even if I make just a regular recipe. So we’ ve developed a little something I call the Friday lunchbox at work. every body just brings in whatever is in the fridge that they are tired of, and we create a buffett. We don’t…

I cut contact with my emotionally abusive parents for good in 1988-yeah, I’m old. As my husband pointed out, they were gonna keep twisting the thumbscrews as long as I permitted it. Eventually, I realized that my life was truly my own, to live as I chose. That meant without having them in it, because they would be…

Thank you. While I am proud of my Greek heritage, I’m even prouder of Grandpa hightailing it out of that tiny village in the hinterlands of mainland Greece when he was 11, making to America after a rather checkered maritime career, and finally, after a little back and forth deciding where to live with his American…

I missed you! Wondered if we would get a review in June or were you summering in some magic makeup land?

Huh. The sandwich shop at my husband's old workplace was owned by a Thai woman and her daughter, and Miss Sam used to occasionally make Thai iced tea. It (IIRC) had milk in it. The tea from Thailand was amazing, very granular with some spices.

Oh dear god, this is my mother. in the mid 1980's (can't remember exactly) Mom and I went to lunch at a cafeteria style place that still had waiters to carry your tray for you. We had a perfectly pleasant young man carry for us. After he got our drinks, Mother proceeded to tell him that he "look(ed) just like the…

You might like toy check out Bourbon French Parfums when you are next in New Orleans. Many vintage scents of their own plus an amazing range of single notes..I wear orange blossom but am going to their Oriental Rose next. I don’t know if they sample but I will plunge on a scent occasionally. Some hits, some misses,…

I got 36 F’s. Maybe I should be smuggling