Last week I re-watched a few episodes of True Blood where they blatantly explore the nature of sexuality. This is an evolution. In the gothic Dracula sex is never mention...
Women. As a younger, very left-brained person I struggled with female company. They gossiped, ridiculed, complained, and in general had nothing useful to say about what w...
When a pair of shoes are so cushy and spacious a baby mouse sets up a nest inside the left one, you should be justified in tossing that comfort-shoe urge out the window. ...
I referred earlier to a conversation with a friend. She is not Anglo-Saxon. She is Latina. So, when I mentioned to her that I was going to start writing about vampires, s...
When I went back to re-read Dracula , I couldn't find my copy. Likely, I lent it out and it has not been returned, as with so many of my books. But, then, that's what boo...
As the hourglass of my college life is quickly slipping away, I realize how much I am going to be glad I am gone, but miss it at the same time. Such torn feelings surroun...
If Leia hadn't asked Obi-Wan for help with the awesome rebellion she was leading, there would have been no Star Wars. I was just telling a (male) friend this story: when ...
Remember Katherine Harris? Seems like a hundred years ago now and almost quaint, after 8 years of the horrors of the Bush-Cheney corporate cabal. But it's where it starte...
Before I had children, I could sit in church and feel the power of God. Since I've had children, I go to church and wonder at God's sense of humor. This was surely the ca...
My boyfriend Charlie and I live two blocks from the pacific ocean. This means we're in the water a lot, swimming, boogie boarding, surfing, etc. I hear a lot of horror st...
















