The Hit List – Ring my bell

The Hit List – Ring my bell

Every year, the Salvation Army bell ringers set up outside local grocery stores. And every time, I walk by.  On rare occasion, I’ll toss a coin or two into the bucket and then go on my merry way. I really don’t think too much about it. You probably don’t either. But...
The Hit List -Brownies and Ageism

The Hit List -Brownies and Ageism

When I was a little girl, my mother enrolled me in Brownies (Girl Scouts for little kids).  She thought it might be good for me to hang with girls my own age and play outside. I was a lone wolf and a book nerd. I was also never one for the great outdoors and I...
The Hit List – The same cloth

The Hit List – The same cloth

The last few weeks, I’ve been aggravated with my husband.  Why?  It’s because he decided to do some major reorganizing and renovating the week before my big retreat.  And nothing has been completed. I’ve been living in disarray for what seems an eternity. The worst...
The Hit List – Comebacks

The Hit List – Comebacks

No one was cheering louder than me when Jackie Earle Haley got back on the silver screen in “Little Children.”  JEH was one of my major childhood crushes so seeing him back on film was all sorts of girly nostalgia for me. (For the record: I was pissed when he didn’t...
The Hit List – I will not cry

The Hit List – I will not cry

Are you going to cry when I leave? Why aren’t you crying? If that was me, I’d be crying. Will you cry later? My baby girl is gone far, far away.  This is the furthest she’s been from home.  Madrid.  Gorgeous, glorious Spain. This is an act of bravery for my little...

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