The “Holiday Season” that everyone in the entire world keeps trying to shove down my throat does not start the goddamn day after Thanksgiving. It has been so written. Right here. So, just stop it. I do not want a Christmas tree more than 2 weeks before Christmas (and prefer a max of 10 days). I [...]

We got 4 inches of snow 2 days before Halloween. We lost power, had that come back on, shoveled and scraped ice of off the windshield, lost power again for a bit, and donned winter coats for the Halloween festivities. I’m done with winter 2011- 2012 already and we haven’t even “fallen back” for DST [...]

There’s something about this place that takes some of the joie de vivre out of vivre. The weather is nice, but there’s a sense of decay that I just can’t shake. It creeps and crawls into the mind and under the skin like the feral cats and cockroaches. There isn’t any wildlife to speak of, [...]

Throughout my whole pregnancy with Elise, I was convinced that I was pregnant with a boy. I had a boy’s name all picked out and even imagined what my little boy would look like. But I also knew that it might be a girl. Even with the total absence of morning sickness, you just never [...]

Today Little Miss Dictator had her first “playgroup” with the nanny. I think that “playgroup” has also moved into verb territory and perhaps she went “playgrouping” with “playgroupies”. Being so insanely out of the loop I really have no idea. The group is made up of Americans and other foreigners in this foreign land and [...]

I had heard not so stellar reviews about this movie but I felt compelled to watch it anyway because, well, it’s Indiana Jones. Some people feel that this film is a bad example of an Indiana Jones film but I disagree. This film is one of the worst movies ever made about any subject matter - [...]