Originally published on Fiftyisthenew.com Hello, here are some words I would like to obliterate from our vocabulary, dictionaries, lexicons and consciousness. Bureaucracy (byuu-rok-ra-see) – excessive official routine How does bureaucracy sound? No, ma’am, I can’t schedule that appointment for you until your doctor faxes us an authorization; No, ma’am, we can’t set up online management [...]
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Words To (Not) Live By
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ambien, black men in prison, bureaucracy, cancer, depression, honey badger, insomnia, Ku Klux Klan, Prozac, racism, rednecks, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Trayvon Martin, Wellbutrin on April 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Just Call Me Crazy: I Liked “John Carter”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Disney, El Capitan Theatre, Entertainment News, Hugo, John Carter, John Carter Box Office, John Carter Flop, John Carter Review, Sister Act, SIster Act 2, Taylor Kitsch, Taylor Kitsch John Carter on March 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Originally published on Huffington Post. “What? You and three other people?” That’s what a friend of mine said when I told him I went to see John Carter. And in fact, there were just about three people in the audience. And that’s a shame. What a waste. All that crazy money — $300 million to [...]
No Thank’s, Thats Not Write!!!!!!!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bad Resumes, Bad Writing, Calvin Klein, Calvin Klein Billboard, Culture News, English Language, Language, Punctuation, Resumes, T-Shirts on March 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
If that title looks perfectly okay to you, you can stop reading right now. A friend of mine decided to create a line of T-shirts that lament this country’s woeful mangling of the English language. I think it’s a great idea. As a writer, I’m into words, and punctuation too. Ah, the vagaries of the [...]
Natural Beauty Tips for Humans
Posted in Uncategorized on March 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Photograph by Hans Silvester from the book, Natural Fashion: Tribal Decoration from Africa Originally posted on www.fiftyisthenew.com. My new novel, Saturday Comes—A Novel of Love and Vodou, is out, and I am the reigning queen of book autography. I am sitting behind a stack of books at a recent author event, happily writing friendly messages [...]
My New Book Giveaway
Posted in Uncategorized on February 1, 2012 | 4 Comments »
I became a member of Goodreads, a great site for people who love good books. As part of their author program, I am giving away ten copies of my new book, Saturday Comes–A Novel of Love and Vodou. If you would like to get one, click HERE. If you do get one, PLEASE! Be a [...]
When Death Wears Sunglasses: The Positive Aspect of Death in Haiti
Posted in Uncategorized on January 31, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
What if Death had style? What if Death wore black sunglasses, liked to dance, smoke cigars and drink rum? What if he loved to indulge in bawdy sexual references (yes, in this case, Death is a he); and what if his presence made people want to party ’til the sun rose up in the sky? [...]
Now You Can Tell Your Story
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged rape, rape statistics, sexual assault, sexual violence against women on October 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Every time I hear a rape statistic I am astounded. Recently I thought I heard that one in three women have experienced sexual violence in their lives but couldn’t find a link to confirm that, and my foggy brain is not all that trustworthy. So I Googled it and came up with this site, which reports [...]
Things I learned From My Cat
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cat, cat behavior, cat litter, cats, dangerous act of loving, fabulous haircuts, go shopping, grooming, kissing, lab rats, life lessons, Lipstick, making love, nine lives, purring, rats, risky behavior, slumlords, source of happiness, wounding a loved one on June 3, 2011 | 1 Comment »
1. If your owner calls your name, walk or dash off in the opposite direction. One must never let a caretaker or anyone in a position of power think they hold the key to your happiness because everyone knows that the source of joy comes from within. 2. If you detest the food you are served, refuse to [...]
Discovering Selflessness with My Friend, Madam Menopause
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bio-identical hormones, genetics test, hormone levels, hormone replacement theraphy, hormones, hot flashes, menopause, sleeplessness, stress on May 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This blog was originally published on Fiftyisthenew.com You don’t know how happy you are that I didn’t post the blog I originally wrote titled “I Hate F#*@!-ing Menopause.” I remembered just in time that I’m supposed to embrace this era of transformation, of aging with grace, etc., etc., blah, blah, blah. To be 100 percent [...]
