Photo highlights from my girls trip to New Orleans.
Girlfriend Getaway
Girls’ getaway weekends are one of the hottest trends in travel. Don’t take my word for it. Google the term yourself. I got 143,000 hits with suggestions from Lake Placid to Charleston to the wine country of - wait for it - Minnesota.
Proof that girlfriends will go anywhere together.
There’s Something About A Typewriter
It may not mean much to millennials, but to Baby Boomers who sat through high school typing classes - oh, the crazy cacophony - or who worked in big offices in the 1970s and even the ‘80s, the sound and feel of a typewriter signals that actual work is being done.
I Don’t Train Dogs. They Train Me.
My family loved dogs - big ones - but never followed through on training. Oh, sure, we'd give it a shot for a day or two. Until we ran out of Snausages. Or patience.
Bored With Boycotts
A quick trip around the internet shows that scores of corporations are being targeted by activists on the left and on the right. Some lucky companies, like Amazon, Netflix, Starbucks and Ben & Jerry’s have angered both lefties and righties and are dealing with dueling boycotts.
Historical Smoking
“Chappaquiddick” is about an entitled, philandering U.S. Senator from a powerful family who let a girl drown in his car - he waited more than 10 hours to report that he’d driven off a bridge with a 28-year-old female passenger - while he tried to figure out how to save his sorry political ass.
And the censors are worried about smoking?
Southeastern Virginia Has An Identity Crisis
Local visionaries are at it again: Trying to concoct a new moniker for the region after making a balls of it several decades ago with “Hampton Roads.”
They never learn.
High School Cafeterias: The Loneliest Places On Earth
I dreaded everything about this forbidding city school. Like all new kids, I especially fretted about lunch. Where would I sit? Who would I talk to? I felt sick thinking about it.
Kerry Goes Mattress Shopping
One salesman ordered us to wait while he ran back to a desk from which he produced a discount coupon. In a whisper he pretended he wasn’t supposed to offer an additional mark down on top of their “rock-bottom” Fourth of July sales prices, but he liked us.
I didn’t like him.
Yep, Pit Bulls. Again.
Pit bulls are banned in many cities and counties.They’re also banned in military housing.
Shoot, if the Marines are afraid of pit bulls, we all should be.
Fun Shoes, First-Class Service
Yes, I’m aware I’m unemployed. Leave me alone. New shoes make me feel better about myself.
Confessions Of A Diet Coke Addict
My heart would race every time my supermarket had one of those buy-two-get-three-free offers on cases of Diet Coke. I loved looking at all those silver boxes piled in my kitchen, knowing I wouldn’t run out of those beloved cans. For a couple of weeks anyway.
Working From Home? Follow These Rules.
But if we’re honest, most of us will admit we don’t like people as much as we pretend we do. There is a glorious sense of relief that comes with no longer being forced to interact daily with the office idiot.
Especially if the office idiot is your boss.
We're Not Facebook's Customers. We're Its Products.
I recently asked my daughter if she’d seen the Facebook ads that pop up constantly in my feed. The ones for a magical gloss that erases lip lines and gives women plump, juicy kissers.
She said no.
Don't Let Your Sons (And Daughters) Grow Up To Be Newspaper Reporters
If your kid is considering a career in journalism you need to talk them out of it. Unless there's a trust fund, that is.
What Is It With Environmentalists And Our Bathrooms?
Perhaps you heard. Environmentalists want us to switch from toilet paper to swatches of fabric. Just like they used in the 18th century! This is progress, environmentalist-style.
United Breaks Guitars. And Puppies.
You want to prevent this from happening again, United? Here's a thought: Don't cram pets into airless overhead bins to suffocate.
There. Problem solved.
When A Car Is More Than A Ride
People who don’t like to drive will never understand that delicious feeling of slipping behind the wheel of a peppy car that begs you to step on the accelerator and ignore the speedometer. A car that hugs the corners and purrs when you hit 80.
March Madness And Your Illegal Office Pool
Truth is, part of the fun of filling out brackets - for the chronically law-abiding - is knowing that it’s a little bit illegal.