There is a refrain among people who talk to me about their upcoming visit to California. They want to watch the bread formed into animal shapes at Boudin’s on Fisherman’s Wharf, they want to ride a cable car, and they want to have a couple of Irish coffees at the Buena Vista. But most of […]
Check Out the Guy Calling Dominos
Single girls never ask me for relationship advice. I don’t know if that’s because they’ve seen pictures of my poofy ’80s wedding or what. But if they did, I would tell them to marry the guy who always offers to call to order the pizza. More than a good provider, a generous, selfless family man, […]
New Obsessive Project, I Heart You
Here’s another reason why Facebook is ruining my life. I was all set to finish off the year strong with lots of writing projects and ambitious experiments. I have a screenplay in my head that I want to write, but first I have to take a class on how to write a screenplay. And I […]
An AI Husband Would Be AOK
My video binge-watching came to its inevitable destination: I watched a movie in which Johnny Depp is the least attractive person on the set. And that includes all the nerdy computer geeks, and guys in flannel shirts and hardhats that are so 2010. But he’s also a dream husband, after he moves out of the […]
We’ll Turn On Our TV, But May Have to Buy It Dinner First
Here’s how lame my husband and I are. We don’t know jack about our TV. The Dalai Lama knows more about television technology than we do. Also the little French Catholic school girl who skips past my house every morning, as well as her fictional equivalent, Madeline. My husband is one bored vacation day away from […]
One Lucky, Scared Girl
I’ve been traveling around a lot lately, and it’s been a wild ride for a Hubbard girl who didn’t visit much of anywhere except Hershey, Pennsylvania, until she was a grown-up. I didn’t fly in an airplane until I was in college, didn’t leave the United States of America until I was 20, and I didn’t […]