Rimini Or Bust

In just a couple of weeks my kid and I will be heading off to Italy, Rimini to be exact. Rimini is on the northern coast of the Adriatic side of Italy, down from Venice a bit, and is famous for being Fellini’s home town. Ten years ago, as my expired passport...

Funny Thing About Kids

Kids. They drive you crazy until they’re gone from you and then your life feels suddenly empty. I know for some it’s a relief. Half the time for me it’s a relief but half the time, more of the time, it’s not. You miss them. You miss them. You...

Loving Me Some Kelly

Okay, so I wasn’t much for the Kelly Clarkson of the American Idol birthing machine – McSingers with their McSongs were not so McDreamy to me. But Kelly stepped outside the box after some rat bastard broke her heart to write and produce her own personal...

The Whole Food vs. Wild Oats Debacle

I don’t know why I find this story so funny, perhaps because being a So Cal girl all of my life I watched the rise of Wild Oats, followed by the advent of Whole Foods and the subsequent monopoly of it. The CEO of Whole Foods John Mackey was, for years, posting...