The Truth About Teenage Boys

I teach high school, technically. I left the elementary school scene after more than a decade for the more cerebral, more mature arena of teenagers. Truthfully, I just needed a job at the time. I thought I could extend my year off of being a self-employed writer and blogger, but when my tub started leaking […]

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A Nu-Way to Look at Life

My mom passed away this year. She was 85 and pneumonia gobbled her up like a hungry bear. It floored us, especially my 91-year-old father, who kept repeating, “This wasn’t the plan,” while pacing the quiet house for the next several weeks and trying in vain to figure out how to use the dishwasher. The […]

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Resolutions for the New and Improved Whoa-Man

*This is dedicated to those who agree with me. Happy new year!      I had an amazing, sharp and witty blog written, all ready to upload and share on Facebook. Crafted with those in mind who are tired of enduring endless crap from friends and family, they were well-designed resolutions for the new year that […]

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Forty Years of Rush

            There are few celebrities I truly like and respect. Caitlyn Jenner is growing on me right now, but otherwise I just don’t care. As my friend Claudia likes to say, “Susan, if Mark Ruffalo came up to you, you’d ask him for a tic-tac, because you wouldn’t even know who he was.” […]

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What I Did on My Greyhound Vacation

      They say you should do something every day that you’ve never done before. And I do! I do that! Every day! (For example, today, I got out of bed for the first time at 10am on April 28, 2015!)       But last week, I really did something major for the first time, and that […]

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Live! at The Nearsighted Narwhal

      So I live in the south. It is a grand place to be.       Especially if you own a gun. Or a rebel flag. Or a gun and a rebel flag.       It is not quite so advantageous if you are a fairly liberal writer with the word booze in the title of one […]

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The Cat Who Saved the World

      Well, this next blog was supposed to be about trying out for the local roller derby team, the Spartanburg Deadly Dolls. I “auditioned” last week (and probably would’ve been asked to join the team, were I not suffering from a shoulder issue that requires PT once a week. Oh and I can’t skate for […]

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Return From Japan: In the Can!

      My friends are expecting a sentimental blog about my recent trip to Japan after nine years. I will save most of the sappy stuff for my Facebook author page, and write something painfully emotional as merely the preface to this blog. Then I’ll get to the funny shit. I mean, funny stuff.       Living […]

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The Only Thing Better Than Hairspray…

      My old roommate Melanie, who moved to Seattle last year (refer to previous blog titled “S & M in the USA”) is a very talented actress, dancer, and singer. She was the star of several Spartanburg Little Theater productions, including Chicago, in which she had to jump off tables in lingerie and heels and […]

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How to Lose a Guy in Ten States

Warning: This blog post may be somewhat raunchier than the others. If you are extremely religious or you are one/both of my parents, I advise you to stop reading now.       So Terry and I got this opportunity to go to New York City to interview a Holocaust survivor with an amazing story of escape […]

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