

When In Romeo!
Ah, love is in the air! It’s Valentine’s Day once more, when Hershey and Hallmark add millions of dollars to their bottom line and we are subjected to couples fawning over each other at the local Longhorn. If we’d wanted dinner and a show we’d have gone to see Cirque Du Soleil, am I right? Oh, I jest. I’m not quite that cynical…yet. Love is the greatest human foible, is it not? It has toppled dynasties and even created brand new religions. People have killed rivals and themse


Of Cuss We Do!
Ah, the art of profanity, in all its fucking glory! What got me on to this topic was a recent lunchtime conversation with a couple of girlfriends about the appropriateness of cursing. One of them shared that she’d been accused of cussing like a man. The feminist in me got riled. Why do men get a pass for throwing around expletives when we women have to hold back? Why does Leonardo DiCaprio get to use the “f” word 506 times in The Wolf of Wall Street and it be described as hav