Laurie: My most expensive-to-date jeans came with a written warning. Do they lift my butt? You bet. Do they tuck in my tummy? Yep. Can I breathe? Yes. Notice my priorities here – butt, tummy, oxygen. So what was the warning? The brand (I’m not advertising free for them after the price I paid)...
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elizabeth: I don’t want anyone to think that I harbor any ill will towards the famers in this country or in the world for that matter. It’s just that alfalfa sprouts have never done anything to soothe a bitchy mood. And beets do not lead the pack when your man or woman has...
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Laurie: Someone just slipped a three-page Smoke-Free Household Survey under my door. Seems like my building is going smoke free. No easy endeavor with 1600+ apartments in the complex, but they are going to give it a try anyway. By July 22nd we are all supposed to cough up (yeah,...
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elizabeth: Last week I got a Facebook notice to “like” a page a friend had set up. I clicked on the link to say I “like it” and I saw this face and name in her friends group that transported me back to when I was in my 20s and living in San ...
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elizabeth: Every once in a while I go on the Internet and look at pictures of rock stars that I dreamt about sleeping with. Or at least getting my picture taken with them so I could make up some smoldering stories about some tawdry nights I spent with them. Good Catholic girl lying through...
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Laurie: I recently had the opportunity to see Nora and Delia Ephron’s Love, Loss, and What I Wore, a delightful play based on the book by Ilene Beckerman about various outfits that marked momentous events in her life. Hysterically funny and poignant, which means that chances are it ticked a few memories of my...
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Laurie: I can’t believe I’m doing this but I have an appointment to visit my local Verizon store on Sunday. I held out as long as I could but I can no longer justify not having a phone that texts and holds all my sacred email. The one I currently have does have...
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Laurie: I just heard that there are plans to build a mosque two blocks from where the World Trade Center used to be. Let the protests begin! Two city blocks from where over 3000 people lost their lives? How inconsiderate, how in your face, how ridiculous! Yes, the people who flew the planes...
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Laurie: I’m sorry but you have to love the South. Nowhere in the world would folks come up with such hilarious and sometimes even wise sayings. I was speaking with my cousin the other day about how lucky we were that that Times Square would-be bomber was a moron. And a natural...
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Laurie: There’s a reason for sayings like “No good deed goes unpunished” or “The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.” Well, Coaches on the Edge agree and have decided that a lot of these goodie-two-shoes philosophies are myths that don’t work in today’s world. Nice is not always the way to go. ...
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