A hula hoop artist (I'll wait) A hula hoop artist named Revolva (ok, I'll wait again) A hula hoop artist named Revolva recently wrote an open letter to Oprah. Oprah's people asked Revolva if she would like to perform as an opening act for Oprah's tour. After her...
Later this month Seth Meyers will take over as host for NBC's late night talk show. Here is my claim to non-fame, I once led a committee that decided not to hire Seth Meyers for a job ... as a comedy writer. I read his writing samples and they were well written and...
I've spent the past few weeks feeling like I'm stuck in meetings and working very hard but not getting anything billable done. But, this week the meetings started to slow down and I actually started to get some work done. I like thinking about the absurdity of how...
The "Angry White Guy" is a stock figure in feminist writing. This is a man who rails at the world for changing and taking away his privilege and blames it all on women and minorities. Last month I "met" AWG and similar to the time that I was called a racist and...
Our former childcare provider had three kids, two girls and a boy. By the time my kids were at her in-home daycare the youngest of her kids was in high school. When my son went through a car-obsessed phase her husband told me that it was such a relief for him when...
I have a lifelong habit of narrating events in my head as they are actually happening to me. Sometimes this has been a great thing. I've gotten through a lot of boring and horrible events by simply pretending that it was all part of a story I was writing. Sometimes...