One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion. - Simone de Beauvoir (9 January 1908 – 14 April 1986)

I imagine just as calling him "my husband" every time would be irritating to some, too.

We didn't even have that going for us. Just a different market, where we've both lived, even.

It is natural to try to understand one's own time and to seek to analyse the forces that move it. - Emily Greene Balch (January 8, 1867 – January 9, 1961)

This is coming from New Iberia, LA, where the temperature is 24 F! My niece, my youngest sister's stepdaughter, got married in St. Martinville yesterday evening, on the coldest day in FIVE years. The ceremony part was outside, and the minister didn't cut anything short despite a freezing bride. When it seemed like…

Yeah, that is a good one.

That is my husband's name.

Early this season, Osiris asked if Paula's husband was Patton Oswalt. Now we see that Patton Oswalt types like Paula.

Gods always behave like the people who created them. - Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 – January 28, 1960)

In the late 1980's, my then-husband (a bass player) was in a band with some other guys, and the guitarist was a misogynist dick. He decided to try to mock my musical taste, but when he asked who was my favorite guitarist, I said Django Reinhardt, and when he asked who way my favorite bassist, I said Will Lee. I…

Is Will Lee still in the band?

Thanks! I will edit my Facebook post.

Rest in Power, Tilikum. May choirs of blue whales, or rather, humpbacks, sing thee to thy rest.

I had to read that headline three or four times to understand it, only to wonder what "becoming its own band" means.

Or, as I said to Osiris, "And the role of Joe will be played by Steve Martin."

Let us celebrate the constancy of the speed of light, let us praise gravity, that it is in action the curvature of space, and glory that even light is bent by its force, riding the curvatures of space toward celestial objects as a fine, shimmering red-golden net might drape over them. - E.L. Doctorow (January 6, 1931…

Say cheese.

CoziTV (or CosiTv), I think.

Oh, yeah, Wendie Malick was the former babysitter!

From whom did you learn the most?