Dear Dipshit: I hope this letter to you, my ex husband, finds you well. Today, if we hadn’t divorced, would be our 13th wedding anniversary. In all honesty, the wedding never should have taken place. Had I listened to my instincts, heard what my close friends weren’t saying, or had more self-confidence and cared less […]
“Don’t you love a farce? My fault, I fear….
I thought that you'd want what I want — Sorry, my dear." ~ Stephen Sondheim's "Send in the Clowns" My first dance as Mrs. Dipshit was to Tony Bennett's version of "The Way You Look Tonight" and ironically, the first dance I had with someone after I became the ex-Mrs. Dipshit was to the Frank […]
“Memory… is the diary that we all carry about with us.”
~ Oscar Wilde Several weeks ago, I was sitting on my couch, quietly reading a book and I glanced up. My eyes lingered on a Vettriano print I have hanging in the corner and as I began thinking about the painting I realized…. It's gotta go. "Dance Me To The End of Love" is a […]
“… the truth will set you free.”
~ John, Chapter 8, Verse 32 Recently I've been giving much thought to the truth. Truth in what I say and do, the truth about my past and present so that I can move forward into the future, truth about what's going on in the world. It's a scary concept, truth. "The truth will set […]
An Open Letter From Jen to… well, Everyone!
Jen does an awesome job of introducing herself so without further ado…. My first (though hopefully not only) guest blogger, Jen. I asked Mo sometime ago if I could post something on her blog and she said "sure". It's long over due I tell the world how amazingly wonderful she is. I've known Mo since […]
“The good ones screw you, the bad ones screw you,…
… and the rest don't know how to screw you!" ~ Samantha Jones, Sex and the City The other day Sassy Booties and I were alone in the front office, Water Buffalo off on a vacation day or some such nonsense. Wait, I should probably back this up a notch. A week or two ago, […]
Stuff I Could Not Make Up Even If I Tried
Little vignettes of things that have truly happened to me but aren't worth an entire dedicated post. My friends Mark and Kony in Chicago had a vegetable garden behind their garage that yielded copious amounts of vegetables. One night, after having dinner together, Mark sent us home with this huge zucchini. It was as big […]
“They say it’s your birthday!” ~ The Beatles
The other day, I was wandering around frantically checking calendars and Facebook because I just KNEW there was someone I knew who had a birthday that day. Around lunch, it hit me. It was Dipshit's birthday. I've spent many a post disparaging Dipshit's character (for good reason, admittedly, but still), so I thought perhaps I […]
“A lifetime’s passed by you….
… What would you say?" ~ Dave Matthews Band "What Would You Say" I'm sure by now most of us have seen the YouTube video Dear 16-Year-Old-Me. And then there's the blog post regarding the Mom whose 7-year-old declared she was fat. So I started thinking. If I could tell my younger self, my daughter, […]
“I realize that I’m black, but I like to be viewed as a person…
… and this is everybody's wish" ~ Michael Jordan I've been having a lot of blonde moments as of late, but this one takes the cake. Even if it happened more than ten years ago. Michael Jordan's home in Chicago had pink marble in it. Very, very pale pink marble, but pink all the same. […]