The Lance Armstrong’s confession of being a liar, a cheat and ruining the careers of many fellow athletes has captured the news since October with the climax being an interview with Oprah. In October the ‘LiveStrong’ charity that Lance founded asked him to step down. LiveStrong wanted to distant themselves from their founder and be…
DetailsHave you noticed how many times a day you see some one’s butt crack? No longer is it just plumbers with their heavy tool belts pulling down their pants. No longer is the visibility reserved to fat big-bellied men whose pants can’t come up high enough. No longer is it displayed from the woman with…
DetailsI plowed through my closet with purpose and resolution. Anything from the first Clinton administration went into the charity bag! Anything with stains was cut up for rags or put into the garbage! Anything in a size 6 or under was pulled out regardless the condition and put into the giveaway bag. Sentimentality was overruled…
DetailsI’m looking at New Year’s Resolutions while trying to bring down my annoyance meter. I have actually found myself doing a teenage eye roll with some of the expressions that drive me crazy. My New Years’ resolution is to not cringe when I hear one of my pet peeve expressions. Maybe I am not alone?…
DetailsA friend I met when we were both going through breast cancer treatments is one of the most interesting women I have ever met. She is brilliant, graduated college at 20, funny, self-deprecating, avid reader, great hostess and extremely kind. She is also a former Spy. When she graduated college as a Russian major the…
DetailsI have been in sales pretty much my whole adult life. Part of selling someone something is also being rejected. You get told ‘No’, quite a bit. A good sales person looks at the ‘No’ as an opportunity to get to ‘Yes’. Rejections are part of the game of sales. In sales you hope…
DetailsIf you have seen the show Portlandia on the IFC network, http://www.ifc.com/shows/portlandia, you know it is a spoof of my city, Portland, Oregon. It may make fun of us but of course there is truth in jest. Real Life Portlandia moments: A friend of mine owns a small restaurant and buys lettuce directly from the…
DetailsThis is a bloghop post for GenFab “How I met my significant other”. I am not a liberty to discuss in my blog many people in my life. Be it a gag order or witness protection tactic’s, for peace and harmony I comply. I can talk about my cats, they don’t mind, but everyone else…
DetailsBecause of my old lady sciatic issues, I can no longer go to my exercise class. Without a class I easily become a slug. Sure I bike daily but what is my upper body doing? Right now the weather is damp and getting cold and it is not be pleasant to bike outside any longer.…
DetailsThe other day my next-door neighbor asked if I saw the deer across the street. No I did not. We have lived in the same home for 23 years and I have never seen deer. Oddly another neighbor a block away said that the deer keep eating her roses and knocking over her birdbath. Deer?…
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