America’s Finest City San Diego gets a new (gulp!) slogan It was a most unfortunate waste: The contents of my wine glass came shooting through my nostrils when my friends told me about San Diego’s new slogan. We were at Mosaic, shrugging off our workweek, and given the restaurant trend to skimp on acoustic tiling, [...]
Perhaps It’s Really Raining Frogs
Healthcare sucks, and the world keeps spinning on her axis “An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern.” —Tony Benn, former member of British Parliament Because my intuitive child knows that I can’t possibly have imagined a more harrowing way to ring in the New Year than to navigate our nation’s health care [...]
Love Stinks
Here’s some free birth control for anyone on the fence (Adapted from a previous blog post.) I remember once, before I was a mom, well before I even thought I wanted to be a mom—which was only about three hours before I became a mom—being lectured by neighbors at my local dog park about how [...]
The-World-Is-My-Oyster Disease
A few things in our sorry little culture that make me an angry woman While navigating my way to the day job the other morning, I got stuck in traffic that’s all too common with any weekday commute involving a freeway. There I sat, idling away my time and my gas, calming my nerves to [...]
Ooooooh, I’m A Jealous, Unkown Douche!
Today, I received a comment on an old blog post that is so pathetically mean-spirited that it made me laugh out loud. It’s that fantastic, trust me. I do have comment moderation enabled, but that is only to protect myself from one person and that person is not Mena, the eloquent author of what you’re [...]
Sentimental Journey
A traditionally twisted visit home for the holidays “Are you going to visit the other half of her family?” Our fingers touched as she took the money from my hand. I was purchasing a few things to complete my airplane bag of tricks—dollar bin items that would enable me to pull an endless array of [...]
Have Hall Pass, Will Travel
What every girl needs is a friend to roam withNext to a life partner who loves you unconditionally—–who accepts how you, the loud talker, tend to forget that a mobile phone is mobile and can be taken to another part of the house, and who forgives your unfortunate habit of leaving hair strands in the [...]
Monster meltdown
A day at the pumpkin patch is everything I’d imagined it could be It isn’t often that an event lives up to the Cinderella anticipation surrounding it. Take New Year’s Eve, for example—an occasion to which orbital expectations are pinned. Inevitably, someone gets dumped before midnight, breaks a heel, becomes mascara-smeared belligerent and pukes in [...]
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Or just toss it out the window when you’re done with it Has everyone in this country gone–as my daughter Ruby likes to say–cuckoo bananas? I mean, I realize that, at times, I could make the very most of a padded room. But generally speaking, when I step back and dare to behold the belching [...]
100-percent preventable: We’ve heard it a thousand times, and still it’s not enough
(My most recent column as published yesterday in CityBeat.) On any given weekend in the College Area, police officers can be spotted busting up raucous parties. (Remember those days? Yeah–good times.) I’ve watched from my front porch as kids stream from the houses like clowns from a Gremlin, noisily flood the streets, climb into their [...]