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Maybe THE FOURTH HOUSE Should Have Taken Things a Step Farther …
January 11, 2008
From the "Truth is Stranger than Novel Department: This, from today's news ... MAINSTREAM news, not some "Weekly World Report" fake news stuff: SEPARATED-AT-BIRTH TWINS GET MARRIED Twins who…
Happy New Year and Thanks!
January 3, 2008
I never knew why Thanksgiving was set aside as the day to give thanks for all good things from the past year. For one thing, the holiday is at the end of November. That basically eliminates all the…
Must I Stuff Your Stockings For You?!
December 20, 2007
Okay, gang; Christmas is only a few days away, Hanukkah has already passed, Kwanzaa is on its way, and there are probably some Buddhist, Muslim, Hindi, and Wiccan fests whose names escape me that are…
#6!!!!! (Number 5 took a baton to the knees)
December 13, 2007
Okay, so no sooner had I bragged about my boys' high school being named the 7th best in the nation than the judges recounted and discovered that it is actually #6. This has been a bad year for bad…
Brothers and Sisters, Oh My
December 6, 2007
One of my favorite scenes in the movie "Patton" is when Patton faces Rommel in battle, using many of the "Desert Fox"'s tactics against him successfully. Patton bellows, "Rommel, you magnificent son…
Party People
November 29, 2007
It's funny ... you go to a big fancy party where, going in, you only know about half a dozen people and you find there are no name tags. You stumble around eating caviar and drinking top shelf…
Eat or Die
November 15, 2007
You’re in the wrong part of town at the wrong time of night. A woman (or perhaps a man) wearing too much perfume and too little clothing approaches. “Hey, you wanna date?” You either politely…
Famous Strangers
November 12, 2007
Wednesday night was the annual Bookspan party at the ultra-swanky Hotel Pierre in Manhattan. This is considered one of the "literary events of the season" and despite that, I was invited for the…
Brothers and Sisters
November 5, 2007
I've started to get into the television show Brothers and Sisters on ABC. Good entertainment, and I have always loved Sally Field's work. Lately, they've been toying with a story line wherein the…