Thank you for being a friend!

I have a secret that I'm starting to publicly admit: I love "The Golden Girls."

Why men can't be alone after a breakup or divorce

Read this piece in the New York Times by writer and editor Dominique Browning (I reviewed one of her books below in the blog post below.)

For a long time, like decades, I believed men were babies who couldn't handle being alone and got remarried sooner than women. I still think, especially with the older generations, that holds true.

Slow Love

Slow Love: How I Lost My Job, Put on My Pajamas, and Found Happiness by Dominique Browning

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


"Slow Love" is about the author's loss of a job editing "House and Garden" when Conde Nast decided to fold the magazine -- she had started it 13 years earlier -- and how she rediscovered herself in a slower, less spectacular manner than the she was used to during her prestigious career. She cleaned a lot. Spent a lot of time in pajamas. Learned new music on the piano. Gardened and tried to learn to cook. She also ended a toxic relationship with a guy who refused to divorce his wife -- he remained legally separated from her for years -- and sold her NYC house to save money and moved permanently into her second smaller home in Rhode Island.

Happy birthday to Chloe

Today's been one year since my life forever changed... I adopted Chloe.

I think she's pretty happy because her tail constantly wags when she's not sleeping or in her kennel, aka, Doggy Condo, aka, the Meditation Room, which is where she goes when Momma has to "bring home the bacon."

Burrrrr! (Part 1,243)

Tonight with wind chill it was negative 9 degrees.

It was so cold and windy that I fully zipped my parka and lifted the hood over my head before leaving the rec center for the parking lot — even though I was pretty warm from my workout.

"I seek a woman who doesn't think creativity is important..."

Below are some of the usernames on a dating website in these parts.
(I'm changing the obvious names to avoid identifying these guys, even though I shouldn't because they apparently don't mind identifying themselves.)

- BSmith

- RyanDadof2

- Mitch307 (307 is the Wyoming area code)

- I_am_Miguel_1977

If you're going to be that obvious, just post your Social Security Number while you're at it.

Le foodie

I know why you all visit Pink as the Sky: Le food.

Because you know me, all day long behind the stove. Whipping up potpies. (The microwave in my kitch is above the stove.) Just magic, how I can turn a glutten-free, Kosher, no-bovine-growth-hormone butter frozen crust into a flakey crust in 7 to 10 minutes because I'm into the slow food movement and so is Marie Calendar's.

But it's more than flavors. It's also my flava, if I do say so myself. My personality that makes you want to want to transform your whole life. Just a little Martha Stewart, I am.

You come for the cooking and stay for the cleavage.

Guns and Poses

I was in line at Walmart a while ago, and the checker said, "Gosh, everyone here today seems to be carrying a gun."

Then a customer replied with vitriol, "It's their constitutional right."