The Frumanista

To this day I have an o dd relationship with sick days.  When I was a child, it would happen from time to time that I would awake feeli...

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle. —Edna Ferber;  " Glare of ...

I am currently reading Love in a Headscarf by Shelina Janmohamed (I'm not sure where I had heard about it, but I think it was on a fru...

Singin' in the Rain is hailed as the most favored musical of all time. (I think it's pretty darn good, but it's not my favorite...

I blather about this topic enough: authenticity. I think that too many of us are frightened of expressing our actual interests and beliefs ...

I think I've decided on my spirit animal: the Giraffe.  I kinda pilfered it from Ma, the animal-loather who admires only one four-l...

This clock change is very inconsiderate. For weeks (probably until it springs forward) I'll be awakening (against my will) at 4:30. If ...

On the his first episode on M*A*S*H , Major Charles Emerson Winchester III pompously intones, "I do one thing at a time, I do it very ...

I am going to get shot for this post.  [Deep exhale]. Okay, here goes:  Hair loss is, for obvious reasons, a touchy subject. I'...

There is seeing, and there is seeing . Mild example: Eewok is (finally!) a reader, and she is eager to curl up in bed with a book, whic...