I’m in a book club! I’m 50 and this is only the second book club I’ve belonged to, so you get some idea of what a trend-follower I am. It also tells you something about my social life that we meet on Friday nights and that will now be my most thrilling thing to […]
Jon and Kate . . . Can’t You Two Just Get Along?
I am really torn up about the Jon and Kate scandal. I’ve been a big fan of Jon & Kate Plus Eight, the reality show about the couple who couldn’t have kids, so they went through fertility treatment and had twins and then went through fertility treatment again, stronger this time and with more feeling, […]
Portrait of a Family
I’m going to get a bad rep for stealing blog ideas from other, funnier and more specialized bloggers. I can’t help it, though. I just have to post these Awkward Family Photos from AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com. This blog site has lots of funny pictures, some candid shots and some of just ugly people, which I don’t find […]
Book Store Musings
I spent a glorious two hours in Books-A-Million, my new favorite Florida book store, this week. It was a good two hours to be Diane. For Mother’s Day, my kids gave me a book store gift card, so it was with zero guilt that I bought three books – two that weren’t even on sale, […]
There She Is . . .
My daughter is still getting mail asking her to be in beauty pageants. Not that I’m surprised – she is beautiful and could kick ass in an actual scholarship competition. But she’s not only not the beauty contest type, she’s like the anti-Christ of high heels, big hair and all things pink. But according to […]
Derby Derby Doo
Before I start in on the Derby party I went to last Saturday, let me get this right out in the public eye: The whole time we lived in Lexington, Kentucky, self-proclaimed Horse Capital of the World, I never went to the Kentucky Derby, even though it was a mere hour’s drive and I […]