I have two 6-year-old poodles that I absolutely love. They are brothers with very different personalities, but both of them are very intelligent and cute doggies, look: Oh, I also love my cat, Cali, too!

Ever get stuck waiting for a subway train in New York City when you’re in a hurry and mutter “FML!” under your breath? Then this one’s for you… Chiara Atik from Guest of a Guest points out that the MTA has its very own FML subway stop at the Union Square station: I wonder if [...]

Its World Cup time again, which to most Americans means absolutely nothing. Yet today, there was some palpable excitement about the match between USA and England. Twitter was a abuzz with “fans” asking why the clock counts up instead of down, what the rules are, and how its called soccer and not football. So with [...]

Dinosaur lovers like me have a new attraction to travel to this summer and its called Dinosaur World. Not that the dino park is new, but its definitely new to me! Plus it allows me to live out all of the Jurassic Park fantasies I’ve ever had… I don’t have any immediate plans to stop [...]

U2 has announced their huge North American concert tour has been postponed because lead singer Bono has to recover from emergency back surgery. That includes the Irish rock band’s show at the New Meadowlands Stadium in New Jersey, which I happened to have tickets to see with my U2-loving family. So much for my big [...]

I understand that people love LOST. I really got into the show, even if I have to watch it all over again to really figure it out. But how much do you have to love LOST to spend the time doing this? I didn’t get a chance to ask the blond-haired lady driving the Jeep, [...]

Happy Birthday, Melissa! <# You are wonderful and amazing and special and I thought the best way to show you how much I appreciate that was to try to capture all that you are in a work of art. I proudly present the one and only birthday girl, umm, you: Love you, darling! <# <# [...]

Well let my blog updating frequency be an indication of the choppy and uncertain ways my life has been twisting and turning the last few months. (Of course, you’d never know it from my tweeting frequency, but that’s a different story…) I’ve switched job locations involuntarily and been dumped into an entirely different set of [...]

Cynicism has been taken a lot of high-profile hits lately. Late night talk show host Conan O’Brien, who certainly could have become cynical after the way he was treated by NBC, mentioned cynicism during his final show: “All I ask of you, especially young people…is one thing. Please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism — [...]

There’s a funny side effect of Facebook that I experienced recently. Photos of you from the past suddenly appear there when someone you went to school with or used to hang out with decides to start scanning and tagging old photo albums. And by “old photos” I mean elementary school photos that you may or [...]