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The World Should Have Such Problems 1 Sep 2011 | 09:25 pm
Recently, an interviewer for JAM magazine asked me, "Which phrases do you over-use the most?" My answer: "Cry me a fucking river" and "The world should have my problems." Indeed. The reason I haven'...
The Airborne Lunatic 7 Dec 2010 | 02:21 pm
Ah, ‘tis the season for holiday travel. And I, for one, am greatly looking forward to the new, full-body pat-downs at airport security. You want to run a metal-detector over my nether parts? Please, b...
My Sad, Irish Valentine 9 Aug 2010 | 03:39 am
This month, Frank McCourt would've turned 80. This blog is in his honor. Recently, I went to Ireland to honor my late, great mentor and high school English teacher, Frank McCourt. As you may know, Fr...
It's No Longer the Germans I'm Worried About... 10 Apr 2010 | 05:19 am
Confession: until this week, whenever I visited Germany, I felt a little queasy. Even as I laughed with German friends, raised a beer, and feasted on strudel, part of me was on red-alert, one eye on t...
Hallelujah, We're in Fahrenheit! 23 Feb 2010 | 03:16 am
So I’m back in the USA again, prostituting myself again for the brand-new, gorgeous, shiny, highly-affordable paperback version of Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven (please buy it, please buy it! –th...
What is in a Nickname? 3 Feb 2010 | 06:30 am
Ah, once again, it seems, I’ve pissed off the Brits. Recently, my husband, the Amazing Bob, and I went to London. From Geneva, it’s an hour-long flight, followed by an eternity stuck in rush-hour tra...
On Moroccans, Minarets, and What’s Up with the Swiss 3 Dec 2009 | 07:19 am
A few weeks ago, the Amazing Bob and I had the great, good fortune to go to Marrakech with some American loved ones. We spent a week in a family-run guest house in the medina. Each day, we toured Moro...
Dildos, Chocolates, and Commies 26 Sep 2009 | 02:53 am
I just paid $17 to look at a bunch of ho-hum dildos in Prague. Serves me right. Like a gazillion other tourists, I got suckered in by the “Sex Machines Museum” here just beyond the Old Town Square. We...
Need Health Care Reform? Raise a Glass to the Swiss. 18 Aug 2009 | 12:04 am
Given all the hot-under-the-collar hullabaloo over health care reform in America, I feel compelled to offer my fellow Yankees a drink. Let’s all peruse a wine list and chill out for a moment, shall we...
Oz: There is Some Place Like Home 6 Jun 2009 | 07:17 pm
So I just spent two weeks in Australia. This should be a big deal and a big blog because, let’s face it, Oz, as they call it, is one big continent and one even bigger hassle to get to. Unless you’re i...
