Posted in Slices of (my) life on August 23, 2007| 1 Comment »
Have you ever, while perusing the menu, asked a waiter waitperson what the vegetables are in a restaurant? Chances are the answer is “a vegetable medley.”
What? My fiber’s gonna sing to me? After all, the first definition of “medley” is
a musical composition consisting of a series of songs
or other musical pieces from various sources
I don’t want singing veggies, unless of course they’re (more…)
Posted in Slices of (my) life on August 22, 2007| 1 Comment »
Yes, it’s true. Even Auntie Kate, adored by untold legions of resale and consignment shopkeepers and even a few mystery readers, and (usually) a couple of brothers, sometimes feels, well, just the teeniest bit unappreciated.
Yes, thousands visit www.TGtbT.com a day, and almost a thousand visit www.HowToConsign.com and this blog a day.
But still, in the dark of the night, the “nobody likes me” goblin visits.Or the “you’re a loser and no one will ever invite you to the prom not even the geek” gremlin… that’s a holdover from high school. Then there’s the (more…)
Posted in Slices of (my) life on August 15, 2007| 1 Comment »
I was going through clothing catalogs today, and can’t help wondering: If those companies think it’s okay to charge 10% more for plus sizes than for missy sizes, why don’t they be honest entrepreneurs and charge 10% LESS for petites?
I mean, come ON. There’s a LOT less fabric in a 2 Petite than there is in a 12… and not THAT much more in a 1X than in that 12. Heck, the 2 Petite probably even requires one less button than the missy, and lord knows what with the price of buttons nowadays…
BTW: The ad’s from 1934. Doncha love it? Look close and you can see they ripped off my name.
Posted in Slices of (my) life on August 13, 2007| 4 Comments »
oops…the freebie slide show program’s gone out of business. Well, my show wasn’t all that interesting anyway.
Posted in Slices of (my) life on August 1, 2007| 4 Comments »
Editorial in 
the NYTimes today re drinking bottled water includes this passage:
“almost all municipal water in America is so good that nobody needs to import a single bottle from Italy or France or the Fiji Islands. Meanwhile, if you choose to get your recommended eight glasses a day from bottled water, you could spend up to $1,400 annually. The same amount of tap water would cost about 49 cents.
“Next, there’s the environment. Water bottles… are made from natural gas and petroleum. …it takes about 1.5 million barrels of oil (more…)
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