I can’t believe it’s really fixed. That thing that has bugged me about my appearance almost my entire life is gone, changed forever. I was routinely teased and humiliated in grade school, where kids in those days would pick the slightest difference or imperfection and make up nicknames for you that lasted until you moved […]

The last time it happened to me was New Years Day. What, you say? Rude awakening? Happy tears? Nope, just my period. The time before that was last summer; I don’t fully recall exactly when. Point is, they are far and few between. This means what? Am I finally and officially in menopause, or still […]

I sat in the shoe store surrounded by towers of boxes containing some of the ugliest shoes I have ever seen, trying them on one by one like a reverse Cinderella — the pair that fits will definitely not get me a date to the ball. As I whined over the loss of not being […]

So there I am at Intelligentsia, an über hipster coffee spot in Silver Lake, on a first date, when I feel it… heat in my chest radiating up to my neck and face until I’m swooningly hot and turning beet red. There’s a prickly, skin crawly feeling and lots and lots of sweat! Spontaneous orgasm? […]

January marked three years since my husband moved out and ended our marriage. Three years is not particularly auspicious, but I did think I’d be farther along in my “new life” as single mom and single 40-something. I did buy a sporty new car — though not the bitchin’ Camaro in bright yellow I really […]

I had one of those “only in LA” kind of conversations with a friend the other day, which included some heavy name dropping and some truly epic “I knew them when, blah blah blah.” It was great reminiscing and all. But the thing is, no one — and I mean NO ONE — other than […]

It’s switcheroo day… again. The day when the children leave my house and go stay with their dad, or the day they come back to stay with me. You’d think I’d be used to it by now, or hope against hope that my kids would be, but no… someone has left their only pair of […]

Growing up in the late ’60s and early ’70s meant our generation was still subjected to many of the outdated notions of child-rearing by the well meaning but misinformed adults around us. I vividly remember being told by adults when meeting me and my sister, “Oh, how nice, a smart one and a pretty one!” […]

Ah, summer vacation! It’s almost here and boy I could use some time off. How can that be? I am unemployed, it’s like I’m on vacation all the time, right? Uh, no, it’s not. Darling, Webster describes a vacation like this:  Noun 1. A period of suspension of work, study, or other activity, usually used […]

I just sold my wedding dress on eBay. It went for $154.49. Really it was a relief just to get it out of my closet. I hated running into it when I would look for the camping gear or winter jackets. It still held a twinge of pain and loss. Some of my friends thought […]