Wednesday, September 23, 2009

NYT : August 30, 1998

'How to Offset The End-Of-Summer-Blues' (my OLD submission):

Recognize that summer is a verb, not a noun

Know that summer isn't a season, but a way of life

Appreciate that the fun doesn't stop on Sunday nights
The tourists are on the parkway, the locals are in the restaurants

11 years later...still true!

Life Lesson #145

Dilbert, 9/22/2009

When you find a kettle of crazy it's best not to stir it

Better options : Ignore, walk away, (or, FB advice) RUN?

Monday, August 3, 2009

My Six Word Memoir

Have a little faith in me

Monday, February 16, 2009

Where Have You Gone, Cynthia Heimel?

From the MIA author of 'Sex Tips For Girls', 'If You Can't Live
Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet?' and 'A Girls Guide To
Chaos':

"Let people push you around. The person who says, believes, and
acts on the phrase "I ain't taking any shit from anybody" is a very
busy person indeed. This person must be ever vigilant against
news vendors who shortchange him, cabdrivers who take him the
wrong way around, waiters who serve the other guy first, florists
who are charging ten cents more per tulip than the one down the
block, pharmacists who make you wait too long, and cars that cut
you off at the light: they are a veritable miasma of righteous
indignation and never have a minute to relax and have a good time."

Gotta' love Wikipedia, where I can always dig up an old quote.
My heroine: a wise, fun girl who sure can write. So why won't she?

Sunday, October 5, 2008

Me & Princess Leia

Happy 52nd birthday to me and to Carrie Fisher, four days apart this
month. I loved her best as Marie in 'When Harry Met Sally', though I
will now be referencing her fabulous one-woman show, 'Wishful Drinking' forever and ever.

Some words of wisdom from this talented trainwreck:

I don't want to be thought of as a survivor because you have to
continue getting involved in difficult situations to show off that
particular gift, and I'm not interested in doing that anymore.


True that, me too, and may the force be with us.

Sunday, June 8, 2008

Streets Of Philadelphia

Sure, it was a bujillion-hot-record-breaking-degrees event.
But today's bike race was a gorgeous postcard of Philadelphia.
6ABC's Gary Papa : 'The Champs-Elysees has nothing on us!'

Bien sur.

Saturday, June 7, 2008

H2O + NaCL

Refrigerator magnet for a Libra Girl:

The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears or the sea.
- Isak Dinesen


Or a frozen and rimmed margarita.