Growing up, I had three sets of cousins. I had my Uncle Jack (my dad’s brother) and Aunt Dorothy’s kids – John, Patty, and Murphy (MaryAnne – but everyone called her Murphy).  We’d get to see them whenever our Dad took us over to see them, or sometimes, when Aunt Dolly (Uncle Jack’s twin sister)…

If you guessed Kaiser – you got it in one! Holy Gribaldi. WTF is wrong with these people? I know we are in the middle of pandemic, but we’re about 6 months in now.  You’d think they’d have gotten their shit together by now. Okay. What I learned – You CANNOT get a face-to-face appointment…

I am an atheist. But that doesn’t stop me from loving religious music of varying types. It certainly doesn’t stop me from loving to get to sing with a really good church choir, especially one that is doing really good and interesting music. The Metropolitan Community Church of the Valley (MCCV) in Burbank, California had…

For a very long time we did not have Dunkin Donuts in our city. But a year or so ago, we finally got one. My husband is very familiar with Dunkin because he grew up in New Jersey; I am a little familiar from my summer in New Jersey taking care of my husband’s sister.…

I’ve written about this before, but I think it bears repeating from time to time. One of the banes of being fat is trying to find out what fucking size you wear. The best advice I can give you is – take your measurements (or even better have someone else do it for you) –…

When he was little, my (little) brother Chick could not (or would not) say cucumber. He pronounced it cumbugger. I must clarify – that is pronounced “cūm-bugger” not “cŭm-bugger” (which is, admittedly hilarious – but not, in this instance, accurate). It was funny (to me) then. It is still funny (to me) now. So if…

I got a message alert from my HMO (Kaiser) today. My immediate reaction is WTF now? You know it’s not going to be something to put a smile on my face. So I go to the website, login and see WTF they want now. Turns out they want a lot. First, they say it’s a…

I know this is supposed to be Theater Tuesday – but with the current lack of theater going on, sometimes, I just need a break and want to write about something that is happening. Like, what am I watching? And what have I watched. Watching – The stuff I watch with my husband is not…

I distinctly remember there being such a thing as creamy Italian dressing. I never bought it because I don’t much regular Italian dressing. I have, however, bought regular Italian dressing from time to time because if you put a bottle of it over (and into) a chicken and bake it (or cook in the crock…

  I recently read How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi. It took me awhile because there is so much in this book that I wanted to absorb. Part of what I want to understand is the racist that lives in me (one of the premises of the book is we all have…