A bored housewife jousts at windmills, pokes fun at everything from leg wax to Miss Manners.
“Wasting away again in Margaritaville. Searching for my long lost shaker of salt…” Jimmy Buffet Of all the injustices I’ve ever witnessed in my lifetime, I think the worst was the way I once saw a margarita treated. I ordered a frozen margarita. You know, just the usual lime variety. When the waitress brought it …
My daughter, Charlotte, is nine years old and, therefore, very impressionable. This worries me. Her step-father, my husband, is quite possibly the crudest person alive. He is very loving but, nevertheless, a bad influence. The first time this became evident was when she was about five years old. We were playing Hangman with her and …
The only time I have ever doubted my relationship with my loving husband was the sad day when he told me he didn’t think Bugs Bunny was funny. How, I asked myself, could I have given my heart to someone who held this view? Bugs Bunny to this day is the funniest cartoon on television. …
My husband and I talk about everything. That’s great, of course. But, the topic that seems to emerge most often lately is what we would do if the other person died. I begin to wonder if this is not wishful thinking on someone’s part. What’s more we have set up guidelines about how the surviving …
I decided that my web address should match the title of my page. I was amazed at how many weird domain names there are. For example, www.treehugginghippy.com was already taken. I also considered my screen name “heatmiser” for a domain name. That is taken too. (Heatmiser is my screen name, because when I am in …
My greatest challenge when I get my hair cut is getting the hair dresser to fully grasp just how much I don’t ever want to have to do anything to my hair ever again. No matter how many times I see a hair dresser he/she is always surprised at how much hair I want cut …