A few weeks ago, I woke up around 3:00 a.m. and I couldn't get back to sleep. My youngest cat, Bugsy, kept jumping on my head, wanting to...

It's weird meeting people for the first time. We're all naturally awkward about it. It's scary. We're all judging each other. I do not...

The signs in store windows are beginning to disappear. Events are starting back up. We are now being advised by the CDC that if we are...

(Originally posted April 15, 2020) We are on stay-at-home orders here in Florida due to the COVID-19 pandemic, so I told myself I'm going...

In the early 80s, a female college professor I admired once told me to call myself Pat. “That way, on job applications, no one will know...

I wish I could know everyone. I wish I could know (and somehow handle) their loneliness. Ugh! But all I can really do is try to find a...

Nice ride. Ride out the storm. Go for a ride. Hitch a ride. Ride the wave. Ride my ass. Took me for a ride. Wild ride. Ain’t about how...

All this pandemic stuff abruptly brought the curtain down on my budding career as a stand up comedian.  It also marked the end of hosting...

Ok, so Once Upon a Time, there was a girl. She’d been around the block. Checkered past. Coke whore turned treehugger. A Cinderella...

The title of this blog makes me bristle a bit. I am reminded of the taunts I heard as a child in school, as I was always at least a head...

(Originally posted April 15, 2020) We are on stay-at-home orders here in Florida due to the COVID-19 pandemic, so I told myself I'm going...

Florida is under stay-at-home orders beginning at midnight tonight. Decided to share a few quotes I like that seem appropriate to the...

I'm mostly staying at home these days -- the COVID-19 pandemic is hitting the Florida economy pretty hard now and most of my part-time...

An homage to cat lovers everywhere, this poem was written by my maternal grandmother, known to us as 'Nana Commish' because of her...

For a year and a half I worked as a cooking demonstrator at a large grocery store chain. I was required to prepare a protein-based dish...

Cable "News" Talking Heads: Given the circumstances... The fact of the matter is... All things considered... What I'm trying to say... At...

After my husband passed away 10 years ago, Plan A was that I'd find someone new to enjoy life with, intimacy, blah, blah, all that fun...

Really? Ewwww.....! + the above, so 11 things. Short men who think that all tall women are insatiable sex goddesses. It’s true, but...

Recently, I was watching one of my fellow comedians deliver a particularly disturbing set of jokes. There was a little laughter, but...

In Elizabeth Kolbert’s The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, the author concludes that human behavior is on the verge of causing...