13. They seem perfectly pleasant, don't they? They are. He was a marine pilot. She was a housewife. Married 47 years, they had one child. My mom is just like everyone else. She's nice enough. No great sense of humor. Hates confrontation. My dad's just like you. Not the caring...
As my foot touched the far curb and stepped up on the sidewalk, I was already deep into dragging my behavior into the direct sunlight of that gorgeous day; not in any kind of harshly judging, name-calling, self-loathing way; rather in a questioning way, a way that would have accepted ...
In the meantime we needed to gather our ingredients for a Nasty Woman, because this was Election Day, and I wanted my Pantsuit Party. That night we made the drinks…. but there was no Pantsuit Party. In fact something was terribly wrong because Hillary was not winning! We weren’t watc...
barely able to speak with emotion. She had just received my brother’s card in the mail, three days BEFORE the- holiday-formerly-known-as Mother’s Day. The card portrayed a young, tow-headed boy riding away on his bicycle with some sappy-assed saying about how she was always there fo...
But they knew early in the day that it was grim and getting grimmer. Mick Taylor, the newest Rolling Stone, was still aghast at what had happened when contacted in London shortly after his return home from Altamont. “I was really scared,” he said. “I was frightened for all of us,...
Look I was ill man, get off my case. I’m allowed to be ill, you don’t have to be a cock about it. Pictured: possibly not you. Alright, now the preliminaries are out of the way let’s do this shit. This week I’m wondering about Valentine’s Day. It strikes me that Valenti...
That, my friends, is what you call a bad day. A little further north, another elderly man made a shocking discovery. Fisherman Bjorn Frilund, 64, caught himself a lovely 5kg cod in the waters off his hometown of Eidsbygda in western Norway. When gutting the fish, Bjorn removed the ...
Hanging out with a three-year-old the other day, I was reading a magazine while he attended his own mysterious business. Suddenly, he clambered up beside me and, clasping my face between small, absurdly warm, moist palms, turned my gaze full upon his own. ...
these gift ideas come from my own experience with these items. I love them, I use them, and I’m always glad I have them. And even if Mother’s Day wasn’t coming, I would recommend them. Shoot, I would probably buy them for myself as a nice Mother’s Day treat. So if you ...
Someone can become a vegan and still eat cookies, sodas, french fries and other processed foods all day long, she noted — but that wouldn't lead to healthier outcomes. Although the vegans also lost an average of 4.2 more pounds than the omnivores, weight loss isn’t alway...