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Friends….when is enough ENOUGH?

Before I get into this too much, let it be known that I am an incredibly social person….in REAL LIFE TOO. I’m not one of those online entities that rolls up into a little ball upon face-to-face interaction…I actually like people.  I have friends! In fact, this is the year that my very best friend [...]

My final wishes

Sitting in a hospital tonight with my husband, listening to the sound of his father’s restless stirring and the mechanical beeps that are uniquely hospital-driven, it reminded me that I have already laid down the law on my funeral. And before you sit there and scratch your head thinking I’m really weird for having preferences [...]

Our house…in the middle of the street

*If you didn’t start humming that song, I just don’t even know if I can be friends with you anymore* So, here it is…all 7 minutes of it, so it’s long and rambly, but if you want to tour the Casa de Mayhew, have a gander. A “gander” <—heh, I’m getting my Georgia lingo on [...]

#FreeAnissa

A Berkeley student who was covering an anti-government protests in Egypt managed to get a single word out to his friends via Twitter: Arrested. A pretty tremendous series of events unfolded over the next days and the college ended up getting him a lawyer and helped get this young man free. That’s fairly impressive no? [...]

I traded in my HAWT for stow-and-go seating

This weekend I had a soul-shattering, earth-rattling, ego-smashing moment of gagtastic midlife epiphany. It doesn’t matter how good a hair-day you’re having how well-applied your makeup is how pretty you may be feeling how good you know you smell how snazzy you feel in your no-kids-around outfit how LOUD you blare your inappropriate music if [...]