There are many good things about Facebook, this new social networking tool that is all the rage, when it comes to getting in touch with long lost friends and being cutesy flirty through out your day, instead of actually going outside and talking to people.
But then there is one bad thing that I can think of right this [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Leisure’
September 30, 2008
Could I Be a Facebook Fatality?
July 9, 2008
Six Weeks To Go
I have six weeks to go ’til I get these braces off. By the time I get them off, I think it will have been nearly two years of metal mouth. I’ve grown used to them. I will be sad to see them go. They make me look younger.
These last six weeks are going to [...]
November 29, 2007
Errata
Miguel has complained that in my last report, I seem to depict him as an alcoholic, and he would like me to correct the dialogue in which I misquote him as saying, “I was drunk.” This is, in fact, because he never really said that, that was an embellishment on my part, but the other [...]
January 23, 2007
Dr. Laura is My Saviour
I believe that if we listened to Dr. Laura more, marriages would endure and we would be a happier, richer people. And we might actually see fewer cases of breast cancer. I didn’t know this until I read Dr. Laura’s blog. All this time I’ve spent, swimming, cycling, running, you name it, has been for [...]
January 6, 2007
Practical Moms
My mother asks me this all the time: “When are you going to do something practical, like race cars.”
I wish she would just get off my back. She hounds me all the time. “How’s your Miata?” she wants to know. Parked. What else can I say?
“Have you blue printed the motor yet?” “What about the shock [...]
December 22, 2006
Artist Spotlight: Jacquie Phelan
My latest experiment in fighting colds has failed. Badly. But does anyone really want to know about this, no. But I’ve been holed up in Miguel’s apartment condo trying to reach a normal temperature again. I’m almost there. Miguel’s sick, too. The saddest part in recovery, however, is knowing that soon I must bid farewell to my [...]