I believe you. Tartar sauce is also good with fries. Hell, just about any sauce is good with fries. I don’t eat meat or chicken nuggets, but on the rare occasion I treat myself to McDonald’s fries, I always get the nugget Hot Mustard Sauce.

The former are my parents. They were raised in the Deep South and my mother didn’t have indoor plumbing until she was a senior in High School — late 50's. Everything had to be COOKED, goddammit! Otherwise you might get sick.

My parents used to cook their steak well done, but only because they were raised in an era of trichinosis and other diseases of ill-kept meats. When I was growing up I hated steak, pork and other meats because they were cooked beyond flavor. Now I’m a pescatarian, mostly vegetarian, and have been for 20+ years. My…

What has happened to Sting’s face?!?

Love that movie! (But the book is better. The author, Scott Smith, also wrote the turkey The Ruins. Both the book and the movie are definitely B-side.)

I’m a married, staunch feminist. Been married 31 years. Have I compromised? Of course. I’ve found that a happy, successful life — if you have a marriage, children, a job and other things going on (you know interactions that involve other human beings )— is 80% compromise and 20% “this is me...deal with it!” Am I…

17 years ago I stumbled upon a gorgeous (non puffy!!) gray leather couch at the Sally Ann for $40. I paid the extra $30 to have it delivered. It replaced a $2000 leather sofa that crapped out after five years. Our Special Gray Elephant has survived two teens, two adults, five dogs and two cats and lots of foster…

Nobody fucks with the memory of Anne Frank. I mean...NOBODY.

Yes! As a child if I was out of sorts in public, my mother would say, “You’d better fix your face, Little Miss!”

I LOVED Kidman in To Die For. It’s one of my favorite movies.

The shows you see with your mom!

I turn 50 this year! I was a Nirvana fan early on. But being present in music at any time in history is a gift. Recently, I read a post on my daughter’s Instagram page where one of her best friends referenced how I introduced them to Neutral Milk Hotel when they were in the 7th grade. I can’t tell you how honored that…

Remember back in elementary schools when “fundraising companies” promised kids an ever-growing pyramid of shitty toys if they sold stuff for their school?!? Only the company gets a hefty portion of that, and everyone in the community gets a shake down. It’s a total scam.

And the people who DO have insurance pay more to cover the bills of the uninsured, who typically arrive to health care at a more advanced (expensive) stage of ill health and receive poorer outcomes (not that that matters! ‘cause they poor). Not providing a basic minimum of healthcare for all citizens costs us as a…

He probably thought “uranium” was a dirty word.

Well, the attack on teachers was the opening salvo. Sad!

We have a more expensive model toilet seat that actually has a dryer! But we rarely use the dryer.

We have a more expensive model toilet seat that actually has a dryer! But we rarely use the dryer.

It’s amazing raw, but it has to be cleaned fairly quickly. It doesn’t keep well, so a lot of fisher-folk just throw it back as trash. But if it’s cleaned soon after catch, it’s AMAZING raw, and if it sits a few hours before cleaning it’s super good hard smoked. I’d never throw a mackerel back for being “trash.”

You dice it up and add it to creamy cheese grits! No one else around here makes it anymore (my grandmother used too), but I make it all the time and it’s amazing, even reheated the next day.

The “locker room” talk excuse is just so ridiculous. After that was said, my (very manly BTW) husband said he had never heard anyone speak about women like that in his life — and he was a bartender at a popular disco in the late 70's!