Surely you jest — I couldn’t believe my ears…not about the personal details from Prince H smeared across the news wires this week, but his one statement referring to the tabloid newspapers: “It’s laid out at breakfast when everyone comes together,” Prince Harry to Anderson Cooper. Seriously? I’m no marketing genius, but aren’t they…

A star, a star, dancing in the night — Epiphany weekend rocks. Even if you’re not a Christmas fan, or even New Years, there’s always January 6th waiting for you around the corner to celebrate the Magi, the three Kings, bringing gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh to the Christ Child. When I married my Venetian husband, I learned…

Out with the old, literally. — “Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.” — Desiderata Before the end of 2022, I decided to stop paying my monthly instructor fee to Zumba Fitness, so I do not have a license to teach it any longer. …

How I was detained south of the border the other day — I was traveling home to the United States from a country south of North America and north of South America with my grown daughter recently. We were tanned and relaxed from a week in the sun and surf. The chill vibes came to a screeching halt after we deplaned a…

When there’s so much at stake — One of my professional psychic friends was at her own neighborhood book group when the conversation turned to the garden variety psychic phenomena people will talk about publicly….doors closing unexpectedly, lights turning on, special lyrics popping on the radio, blah, blah, blah. We’ve all taken part in those conversations, mostly…

Ignoring the pressing problems at hand and jacking off instead — It’s almost comical, except there was malicious intent and people could have died. A landed, wealthy “aristocrat” was organizing an attempted coup to overthrow the German government. Yes, a coup. Who in their right mind takes on the German government? No surprise that this aging German aristocrat who goes around…

Would you do it? — One of the decisions I had to make at the end of my husband’s life two months ago was whether to send his body to Jefferson Hospital nearby to be carved up. Samples were taken, I don’t even know how large, don’t want to know, and then the body was…

They can put you in a headlock in two seconds — Once I heard someone on television say to watch out for Philadelphians because all the citizens there do mixed martial arts for six hours a day, every day. A bit of hyperbole, but some truth. It’s the land of Rocky after all. There are no less than twenty gyms and…

Turns out she’s an expert — Here we are in the perpetual twilight days of late autumn, recovering from election season and waiting for Ghislaine’s shoe to drop on unsuspecting pillars of power. Suddenly it’s time to decorate for the holidays. Yippee. This year the task was solely in my hands for the first time. Ever. …