If there’s one thing Southern gals know how to do, it’s gab. Silly or serious, all it takes is a glass of iced tea and time. Pull up a chair, kick off your shoes, and make yourself comfy…get ready to dish!
Sinfully Tagged
“Sometimes you can learn more about a person by what they don’t tell you. Sometimes you can learn a lot from the things they just make up. If you are tagged with this Meme, lie to me. Then tag 7 other folks (one for each deadly sin) and hope they can lie.”Pride: What is your biggest contribution to the world? I’m breathing, aren’t I?Envy: What do your coworkers wish they had which is yours? My shoe collection.Gluttony: What did you eat last night? Coq au vin. In Paris.Lust: What really lights your fire? Depends on the...
read moreTen This Tuesday
Ten years ago today, at precisely 6:13 am, Miss Frack arrived in the world. That means today, at precisely 6:13 am, I became the mother of two children who are now in the double digits.She’s gorgeous, and I’m not just being a proud mama. She’s really objectively gorgeous–willowy, long legs, shining hair, bright smile. I wonder how many of us were gorgeous when we were ten and somehow forgot (or never believed), those of us who have been the walking wounded on the inside for years and years because we just...
read moreReading Lists: 100 Greatest?
Every once in a while, something pops up that just demands to be blogged. I ran across this listing of Time magazine’s 100 best English-language novels published since 1923. Lists like this are always up for debate, but I thought it would be interesting to see how I fared. Of their 100 choices, I’ve read these:All the King’s Men – Robert Penn WarrenAnimal Farm – George OrwellAre You There God? It’s Me, Margaret – Judy BlumeBeloved – Toni MorrisonThe Catcher in the Rye – J.D. SalingerA...
read moreThe Bed List/The Dinner List
BED LIST: SHEMAR MOOREShemar Moore first caught my attention as the intense profiler with the sentimental streak in Criminal Minds, but he’s been swoon-worthy for a while. Check out his strong turn in the Tyler Perry film Diary of a Mad Black Woman. Girlfriend was crazy to hold out so long! Dayum!DINNER LIST: TYLER PERRYSpeaking of Tyler Perry…this man is a brilliant businessman and an absolutely fearless comic. His multiple successes with the Madea franchise show his intimate knowledge of his Atlanta hometown and his target...
read moreThrees
I guess today I can officially close the book on my youth. First Ed McMahon (how many years have I heard that voice?), then Farrah Fawcett (all the girls wanted her hair, all the boys just wanted her), then Michael Jackson (“’cause this is THRILLER…thriller night!”). Michael Jackson’s taking the most effort to process, though. He’s not that much older than me! Of course, we all watched him grow up, from being the high sweet voice of the Jackson Five, to the disco phenomenon of Off the Wall, to the...
read moreIB Pissed
I don’t know about you, but sometimes professional conferences are a pain in my considerable behind. Today’s is no exception. I’m at a gorgeous beach resort–no complaints there–with nice food and a room that’s about a hundred feet from the Gulf of Mexico. Fine. Dandy.What’s not fine, or even approaching dandy, is the veritable avalanche of paper I got this morning, all badly organized and comb-bound, which makes it impossible to reorganize. Top that all off with a room full of people from rank...
read moreThe Bed List/The Dinner List
BED LIST: SIMON BAKERSimon Baker’s Australian, though you’d never know it from his best-known role, Patrick Jane in The Mentalist. Those eyes! That grin! Those dimples! Don’t know about you, but he’s welcome to observe me up close anytime.DINNER LIST: ARNE DUNCANBehold our new Secretary of Education. I’m sure you can guess why I’d want to have dinner with him. Somebody with some sense needs to talk with the Washington policy wonks!! He’s kinda cute, too, so it wouldn’t be a hardship.
read moreOff to the Races
The reworked idea for The Five Step Plan and the proposal for Life After Little League are now on their way to Dream Agent. Let’s hope she’s happier with the rework–if she is, I can salvage some main story elements. If not, we’re talking total rebuild (which I’m not wanting to do, but…). Now I’m back to the YA ideas. Who knew designing an entire fictional high school would be so complicated! That “write what you know” advice sure can throw a wrench in the works when you’re not...
read moreIf It’s Not One Thing, It’s Another
Adding to the insult of no money coming in all summer (two teacher household, remember?), today I hear this weird griiiiinnnddd-CLUNK sound from one of my back windows. Yep, now it’s stuck down. All the way down. And this is Florida, where we have a thunderstorm every day at 4:00 p.m.Great. Lacking the several hundred bucks it will take to fix the window (stupid VW window regulators are pieces of plastic trash that are cheap but take like three hours to fix because you have to disassemble the back seat to get to them), and since...
read moreThe Bed List/The Dinner List
BED LIST: JAMES McAVOYWho’da thunk the limpid-eyed Mr. Tumnus from The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, furry goat butt and all, would have ended up becoming a prime-grade Scottish leading man? Not me, but then I saw Penelope. And Atonement. And Becoming Jane. James McAvoy is a seriously cute bundle of simmering Glaswegian rawr.DINNER LIST: ALAN GRAYSONThe new U.S. Representative from the 8th District of Florida is a kook, but maybe in a good way. He campaigned on a platform of transparency in government spending, which is way more...
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