Year: 2018

There is a certain type of personality that I find very difficult to be around, and that is the self-aggrandizing blowhard.  We all know the type – the guy who barges into places, talking too loudly, mostly about himself and his real or imagined accomplishments, and who only values the people around him for what…

My Nana was born in 1899, which as a child, confused me.  How could someone be from the time before the 1900’s and be alive?  To be fair, that would only make her 64 when I was born, the youngest child of her youngest child.  Still, that number seemed to be magical, as if she was not only…

It will come as a surprise to absolutely no one that I have been seeing a therapist for about as long as some of you have been alive.  Oh, this is news to you?  You clearly don’t listen to our show. Well, I have as many issues as a newsstand, as they say, so I…

I looked deeply into my cat’s eyes this morning, and told him how much I love him and that everything will be okay.  He was sitting in his cat carrier already, and was meowing his discontent. Having been to the vet twice recently for tests which assaulted his body and dignity, I’m sure he was…

There has obviously been a downward slide in public manners and civil behavior in recent decades.  People seem to think that they should be allowed to do whatever they want whenever they want, without a second thought to how it affects others.  Loud-talking on cell phones, demanding upgrades and comps wherever they go, and finding…

I remember reading somewhere that in relationships, people usually tell you what they want and where you stand with them.  Of course, you have to actually be listening to what they say, and have to be brave enough to take the words in, without changing it into what you hope they just said.  I wished…

I don’t get excited about vacations until I am on the way, bags packed, tickets in hand. There is so much to do before I get to that point, I am an anxious mess until we get to the starting line. We don’t even have kids to worry about, but getting ready for a trip,…

It seems that sometimes, the cool kids suddenly decide that something is no longer the “in” thing, and then everyone jumps on the bandwagon.  I’m not necessarily defending any of the offending items or fashions, but the  ostracism for wearing those looks, or owning those items confuses me. Why, for example, did the mullet become…

I was lying in bed the other evening, and listening to the quiet of the neighborhood being assaulted by the distant roar of a motorcycle.  I couldn’t help but wonder how loud that must be to the people nearby wherever he was zooming past.  BLaaaaaAAAAUM, BLUM BLUM BLUM BLUM BLUM.  Oh, good for you, motorcycle…

America has lost its collective minds.  I shake my head every day at the news, and the things that pass for logic these days. Latest edition of head-poundingly frustrating thinking/not-thinking:  A puppy was placed in an overhead compartment on a plane and died as a result.  This is a senseless and obviously very sad event….

One of the bits on the show is Name that Orgasm.  One of us needs to research a whole mess of orgasms and the rest of the show has to guess their ethnicity based on the orgasm.  It is a lot of fun and a bit ridiculous.  We were supposed to have Ron Jeremy on…

Mr. Helix and I are trying to plan a vacation to England for early this summer. There is so much involved in trying to get this done, I feel like major troop movements are involved. First, there is the simple problem of trying to figure out how much sausage you can shove into a 5…

My friend went to the School of Visual Arts in New York City, and let me tell you, those artists knew how to party.  You purchased a ticket to the event, and they would rent out an entire nightclub for the evening, and hand out 3 drink tickets per attendee.  This particular night, it was…