“This house IS NOT a democracy!” How many times did you ever hear your parents say (or scream) that? And how often do you say it now?
Read the full story »Lizzie and Jane are on the cusp of GenX. We continually search for our spot (past and present) in the great game of generational generalization.
Spirituality as continually redesigned by Lizzie and Jane
Lizzie and Jane’s brewing stew of back and forth trouble that hasn’t yet been loosed upon the world…
Because there’s nothing you can’t put on a list
Everything else Lizzie and Jane are thinking about…
Lizzie When Jane and I went to high school in New Jersey in the early 80’s, there were no state-imposed SOL’s (standards of learning) or tense parents’ Q & A nights for the Sex Ed …
My hometown of "Pleasantville," New Jersey, enjoyed the glorious status of being a regular stop on the Erie Lackawanna train line into Hoboken. The neat brick train station, with its urine-smelling underground walkway, formed the …
Jane
So this morning Lizzie asked me what I think about Obama’s choice of Rick Warren as the pastor to give the invocation at his inauguration.
Lizzie
about the Rick Warren thing…coming up for inauguration. You heard about …
Well, as my fellow Scrooge Lizzie has duly noted, that “most wonderful time of the year…” is upon us.
Chanukah, Christmas, Kwanzaa… Malls, online shopping, a thousand catalogs in the mail and special offers pouring into …
I am staring through a stepladder at 1,800 points of light—a profusion of clear mini-lights strung perfectly around our 12-foot Douglas fir. My kitchen counter is lined with Costco-sized bottles of vanilla extract and molasses, …
PANDORATION: n. the habitual, feminine act of opening up boxes full of trouble. Implies the adoration of all that goes along with trouble-making mischievous box-opening. The contrary and perverse lack of desire (as opposed to inability) to leave the damned lid tightly screwed on the above-mentioned Box…
So here is Lizzie’s and my conversation from the night of, and morning after, this past monumental presidential election. I stayed on Facebook, Huffington Post, MSNBC.com, and CNN.com until the wee hours. Had CNN on …
Jane October 25 at 8:51am
Thank you for all of that. I won’t be able to properly sit and think and write until Sunday (hopefully afternoon, but possibly evening). There is a lot to respond to. …
Lizzie October 23 at 6:02pm
I am stuffed full of vanilla, luscious fudge sauce, and Reddi-whip–just from your answer to Question Two. And it’s just nutty enough. Who needs a cherry? (Memories of working the …
Jane October 23 at 8:44 am
Lizzie’s First Question: Is the cultural connection and uncodified personal spirituality enough for me?
Short answer: yes.
What follows is the long, much more rambling answer:
One of my housemates in my one …
What I learned from Holden Caulfield, whom I got to know in Mrs. Levinson’s 11th-grade English class (where Jane sat a few seats behind me, by the way)…. As a reader: An honest-to-goodness …
Jane: Before Gina Welch’s final preparations for the Alaskan Salt and Light Evangelical mission, her mother arrived for a visit. They had a great conversation about a Phillip Roth public radio interview. Roth …
What I learned from Holden Caulfield, whom I got to know in Mrs. Levinson’s 11th-grade English class (where Jane sat a few seats behind me, by the way)…. As a reader: An honest-to-goodness …
Jane: Before Gina Welch’s final preparations for the Alaskan Salt and Light Evangelical mission, her mother arrived for a visit. They had a great conversation about a Phillip Roth public radio interview. Roth …
Jane: So Lizzie, how has the past week been for you? We’ve both been busy and spoken/texted a bit less than usual. I’ve been feeding my internet/news fix with all sorts of interesting observations and …
UPDATE: And here it is! Follow the presentation of the new iPad and check out all the cool things it does! GDGT LIVE APPLE COVERAGE OF …
