When I walk in with the camera, the Tot likes to be silly and roll around while chirping at me. And he'll give me that I'm-the-sweet...

This New York Times front-page piece today is depressing. We voted for Change in 2008 and we got it. The Change is called Stagnation. We ...

Believe it or not, I rolled up 12 or 14 outrageously large collard leaves tonight and did a chiffonade! That is an 8" chef's knife...

We certainly knew the Obama Administration was going to bring us change. And here we are . Obama, in his first year, does what George W. B...

I love quirky people and people who do strange things fascinate me. I feel like I'm relatively normal when I read the paper or venture ...

A couple of weeks ago I was reading my neighbor's Facebook page and saw an interesting comment from someone. I clicked to her profile. ...

We decided to try a couple of new things today. First, we went to Torchy's Taco in south Austin for a fried avocado taco which was tru...

1973 And no, that was not Agnetha Faltskog on vocals. In the absence of time to create a Virtual Outhouse on Fridays, I can always find a f...

I came to the sad realization today that my cats are like people involved in partisan politics. And like our country, we're pretty even...

What a week . Thanks so much for giving us Rachel Maddow though! Air America, the long-suffering progressive talk radio network, abruptly s...

This Supreme Court ruling today basically took our political process, tied a boulder around it, and tossed it into the high seas. Sweeping...

It's very simply summed up by Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. “I’m not going to decide today what we’re going to do in the future....

I've spent the bulk of a day (when I wasn't working) dwelling on the Massachusetts election which resulted in Scott Brown being elec...

I seriously need to do some cleaning around here. Lots of books need to be donated, particularly the books on film production and screenpla...

I guess when times are tough, you drop your standards a bit. Focus on the Family, a Christian family-help organization based in Colorado Sp...

Rachel Maddow and Chris Matthews at a pub or what the fuckever. Discussing Scott Brown's victory in Massachusetts. I knew this was com...

I received a very interesting email from a friend today and she had this to share: My sister and I have a difficult relationship. She has a...

A right delayed is a right denied. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

I've had this nagging political anxiety brewing inside me for several weeks and it's getting worse by the day. I can hardly believe...