Spring Pacifica Beauty giveaway

March 14, 2016
It was rare for me to get excited about a mascara. I wanted to, because my thin, skimpy lashes need help. But most mascaras haven't delivered on their promises....

Trans-selfish

March 11, 2016
Are we over our romance with trans- people? I got to know my first trans- person in 1990, so you'll pardon me if I yawn through the gossip sites that cover every outfit...

Who me? Feisty?

March 5, 2016
I'm an author! Well, not really. I didn't write this book. But I am one of 45 feisty bloggers who contributed to this funny, inspirational and helpful anthology on...

Find your voice

February 25, 2016
Don't let fear keep you quiet. You have a voice. So use it. Speak up. Raise your hands. Shout your answers Make yourself heard. Whatever it takes,  just find...

Vulgarity is not comedy

January 25, 2016
Comics reached a new low at the Golden Globes the other week when comic actress Amy Schumer told the viewing public in a televised interview that her vagina itched. I...

A few of my favorite things

January 7, 2016
Take a breath. A big one. And think of your favorite things. Bet you've been so busy doing for others this winter holiday season that you haven't taken time to do...

Your life, all in one place

November 18, 2015
Yes, it's giveaway time. Read on! It's not January, but I'm thinking about how badly I need to get organized. Maybe you've had the same thought? Now that I've retired...

Best summer beach reads

June 12, 2015
Airplane reading and beach reading have one thing in common: they've got to be distracting and that means fairly light. But not completely mindless. The kind of book...

Musings on Grace and Frankie

June 3, 2015
Jane Fonda is 77. OMG. 77! When did THAT happen? She's playing a 70 year old on our new obsession, the Netflix series, Grace and Frankie, and she is good.  She's...

Sinatra: he stepped up

April 25, 2015
My mother was a bobby-soxer back her day and Frank Sinatra was her favorite artist. He was adulated by teens in the 1940s --oh, that voice, like velvet-- and my mother...

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