80s Lyric for the day: You should have known by the tone in my voice, Baby, But you didn’t listen You played dead, but you never bled Instead you lay still in the grass All coiled up and hissing My beloved and I settled down the other night with a plate of (vegetarian) burgers, stuffing, and…
Category: Holidays and Celebrations
Punishment
My father is a terrible snoop. He revels in our inability to surprise him on holidays. He tear through closets and climb under beds, he will browse wallets for tell tale receipts and snoop through credit card bills for suspicious charges – in short, he’s impossible to surprise, and so we’ve just stopped trying. Apparently,…
Counting my Blessings
When my bankroll is gettin’ small I think of when I had none at all And I fall asleep counting my blessings . . . #1 – My mother – We may never live within 100 miles of each other again, but luckily she is alive and well and loves to talk on the phone….
Halloween
Happy Halloween!! Passin’ out candy with my spooky sister this All Hallows Eve before reluctantly trudging off to rehearsal at 7. I’m a corpse bride today. My sister is a vampire. We’ve gotten some funny looks (and she’s gotten some mean comments!! she worships the devil, who knew??) for being grown ups wearing costumes…