My darling blog, New Media Martini, amazes me and countless others, mostly me, with its many fantastic features and its general coolness. Look no further than the instant post, the very one which you are now reading, with or without your self-encouragement to read it, somewhat unnecessary, because let’s face it, you read reflexively; you [...]
I have spent a lot of time today with my head in my Kindle. Oh, my! I think we just ran into the logical limits of the expression “my head in a book.” But perhaps not, because I never meant it literally, since I am a confusionist. I am the child of a literal mother, [...]
I said I had no advice for Emma. Or the Kay who deniably is not again seventeen nor seeking advice from the Kay who deniably is some other age. A number unspoken and unremembered as is proper. But I say many things that must later be swallowed or worked around or both swallowed and worked [...]
On Friday, there will be a return visit from Women Are Not Funny regular featured guest, Michele Woodward, Inventor of the Baked Alaska of Failure, the dish so nice, I have baked it twice. Or more often since, actually, I find it quite addictive, in its own way. Which is sad. But less sad and [...]
As I hope you know by now, one of the features of this very excellent blog is that it has its own pie. Kay Ballard’s Man Pleasing Lemon Cream Pie. It is a deliciously popular pie known for its insistence on living up to the promise of its name. The download link is on a [...]
I know I am living in a rarefied world. I know that and tell myself I am deserving. To have so many friends who are published authors and so many friends who should be. Friends who have and have had something to say. Who say it by writing. And at times who say it by [...]
A fun conversation about heartbreak. How is such a thing possible? Perhaps it isn’t possible. Perhaps I am merely confused. But if I am not mistaken, yesterday, on Women Are Not Funny Radio, I had a totally fun conversation about heartbreak with my friend, best selling author Susan Piver, about her new book, Wisdom of [...]