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First, a little background on the location where we live:
I and my boyfriend of a year live together with another couple that we are very close friends with, in a complex of apartments built for students only. It’s not like a dorm, the apartments are beautiful and when we moved in it had only just [...]
My Mother’s best friend since high school was like a second Mum to me. I called her Aunty from the age of one. She lived with us for most of my childhood and I loved her dearly. She never had any boyfriends and hence, never married. She started a new job when [...]
My daughter Linda and one of her girlfriends Sophie from graduate school came to my home one day and began discussing the tackiest wedding invitation they had ever seen! Apparently Sophie’s boyfriend Hank was going to be the Best Man at an upcoming wedding. Unfortunately, the bride, Karen, loathed Sophie. In [...]
Today’s post is on a subject I’ve been loath to discuss for months. When I expound on some tacky business, I always wonder if I am not in some way aiding and abetting a business’s tacky, rude or, in this case, gross crassness by giving them publicity. After all, even bad publicity is [...]
This story taught me a valuable lesson about paying attention in class. One of my college courses was in a huge lecture hall. One night I arrived barely on time and had to find a seat further toward the back of the room than usual. I pulled out my laptop to take notes, and because [...]
Here’s the back story: My boyfriend & I recently got engaged. Now I am 18, he is 21 and we’ve been dating for almost a year (we’ve known each other for about 2 ½ years). I can understand the viewpoint of “you’re too young” and “you haven’t known each other that long,” so in the [...]
I’m not sure I’d escalate to a louder confrontation that attempts to get the rest of the theater audience ganging up on the blathermouth. Ask nicely and then seek theater management assistance.
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I attended the wedding of one of my (now ex) husband’s old high school buddies, where he was serving as the best man. It was a smaller wedding held at a Mason’s club, but nonetheless trying very hard to be a classy affair. It was sadly hampered in attaining its goal by the bride’s family [...]
This past week provided sports and entertainment fans with eyepopping, jawdropping displays of rude behavior by athletes and musical artists who exploited their priviliges as celebrity elites to abuse others. Let’s start with Kanye West at the MTV Video Music Awards…
First he has the audacity to ascend to the stage when he has no logistical, [...]
