Okay, maybe not kill but definitely make me uncomfortable. I have had two bizarre pill incidents in one week and I am hoping and praying (to the God I don’t believe in) that this is not one of those things that comes in threes. First.  Stuck in Detroit overnight because of my flight problems (read…

Most theater people are “night owls”. We have to be.  We are performing in shows that usually finish up around 11 pm or later; after which we have to wipe the makeup off, hang up our costumes, get dressed, pack up our personal items and head home – or head out for some breakfast or…

Okay.  Here’s the deal.  I suffer from chronic depression and anxiety (not to mention intermittent crabbiness, grouchiness and just plain old bitchiness).  I was recently been transferred from Kaiser’s adult psychiatry department to its geriatric psychiatry department. The main difference in the departments is with adult psychiatry you see or talk with a psychiatrist.  In…

One of the Hot Cross Nuns’ (L to R – Sr. Flagrante Dilecto (Laura Sheriff), Rev. Mother Arletta Fahrt (Linda Dodson (R.I.P.)), Sr. Tittilus Buttox (Terri Cotter Weitze), Sr. Clitteruptus (Sue Abitanta), and Sr. Dietus Perpetua (Kathy McGinty Radocaj)) favorites.

This is a long one folks. Flying while fat can be fraught with it’s own set of problems.  Add on flying while old and it’s a whole new ballgame.  Then you can add on flying during a pandemic. And the fun just never starts. The large city airports are just that – large. They are…

The one good thing I can say about my mother marrying our stepfather Charlie is that he brought into our lives our cousins, Alice and Marilyn. The four of us spent a lot of time together growing up.  A lot of that time was unsupervised and we had an inordinate amount of fun. Linda is…

Some of you have expressed concern as I seemingly disappeared off the face of the earth – or at least the face of the Internet. I was in Michigan.  I went to Michigan for the wedding of my niece Hailee.  I ended up not attending the wedding because I had what seemed like endless diarrhea…