Paul McCartney’s story about how he came up with the lyrics to Let It Be had everyone in the country in tears. As he told James Corden on Carpool Karaoke recently, he was worried about the future and during a fitful night’s sleep, he dreamed of his late mother, who told him to just let […]
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A Life of Crime Is Not For Me
My husband and I were in a hotel recently and I was forced into a life of crime, once again reminded that I would make a terrible bad guy. Housekeeping forgot to replenish our shampoo and conditioner one morning, and we were running low. Making a request would have required a phone call down to […]
Cover Up Your Legs, Princess! It’s Gown Season
It’s that time of year again: when normally sensible, well dressed women throw all they know about fashion out the window and put on princess costumes to go out in public. It’s floor-length gown season, bitches. Which means it’s the twelfth time I’ll go against my own better judgement and half-heartedly walk out my front […]
Yankee Go Home, But Flush First
Being an American these days is becoming more and more embarrassing. We look really bad to the rest of the world and I’m not talking about how we run our elections or our unwillingness to learn the metric system. We’re known globally as the race of people who don’t know how to flush their own […]
Where’s My Coffee?
I’m not a self-centered person. Really I’m not. But that doesn’t mean that I didn’t blurt out, “Oh, come on!” when I found out the replacement coffee carafe I ordered was going to be slightly delayed because of a train derailment. One day. The delay was one day. Because a train had a terrible accident. […]
Spicing Up Old Age
They say that as you get older you are more likely to be a hoarder of at least one thing, and now that I’m (ahem) older, I can definitely see that happening. Not that I’m wading through mountains of on-sale collectible dolls and dirty Kleenex to get to the bucket next to the broken toilet […]