I feel compelled to follow up my blog on being a waitress at Howard Johnson’s with a post on being a cook at King’s Inn, in Lowellville. If there is a shit job that is worse than being a waitress next to an interstate highway, it’s being a cook in the middle of Western Pennsylvania. […]
Putting the Ho Back in HoJo’s
Here’s proof that you can buy or sell anything on EBay. (EBay is a world I don’t want to explore. I fear EBay. My friend Diane K is addicted to EBay much the way I’m addicted to social networking. She makes a lot of money selling her crap, but she also ends up buying a […]
If God Had Wanted Us to Pee Standing Up . . .
I am thrilled to announce that another of my inventions has been made into a real thing. A portable toilet that girls can carry in their purses and pee into, standing up. I invented that in my mind back in the early 1980s. (I’ve invented lots of other things, too. I’ve mentioned before that I […]
I’m Tired of the Squeaky Wheel
I’m sick of the squeaky wheel. It’s been a long trip and that wheel has been squeaking like a banshee. While I could ignore it at first, it’s starting to really get on my last nerve. I tried to drown it out by turning up NPR really loud, but it’s beginning to cut right […]
It’s My Time for Michelle Paper Dolls
It’s time for me to get the Michelle Obama paper dolls. I’ve been waiting 45 years to get to the top of the seniority list to put paper clothes on a First Lady and, by god, I think this might be my year. When I was really small, my dad used to go on […]
Jim Traficant and Somebody – Not Me
I’d like to be able to tell you that today, on this first day of freedom for former Congressman Jim Traficant, I have a chest full of war stories about Jimbo and me when I was a reporter in Youngstown. Some of my former colleagues, as well as my husband, have a boat load of […]