Heard in the Bleachers

Posted by mimi on Oct 20, 2007 in dish | 0 comments Little League. Bleachers. Moms and dads and sibs. Always an interesting sociological mix, especially in our community. I’m paying attention to the game (mostly), trying not very hard to avoid overhearing the conversation on my left, conducted by slim, toned wives with far more expensive shoes than I. You know, the ones with $100 haircuts and blinding diamond (plural) wedding sets....
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Last Lecture

Posted by mimi on Oct 15, 2007 in dish | 0 comments My friend Nancy sent me a link to this short video, a clip of a “last lecture” given by a prefessor at Carnegie-Mellon University. Universities across the US are featuring last lecture programs, inviting well-known professors to deliver the wisdom they really would like to impart before departing. What’s the catch here? Dr. Prautsch has terminal pancreatic cancer and is...
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Style, or Lack Thereof

Posted by mimi on Oct 8, 2007 in dish | 0 comments So I’ve been reading style books lately. (My friend Desiree is passing out at the thought at this very moment.) What I’ve realized is that my style and my closet aren’t on close speaking terms.My friend Colleen once told me that the best thing about turning 40 was the ability to say “to hell with it” and mean it. To hell with tasks you don’t want. To hell with...
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HB2Me

Posted by mimi on Oct 6, 2007 in dish | 0 comments DH hates the song “Happy Birthday.” He says that everyone sings it too slowly, so it comes out sounding like a dirge more than the celebratory air it should be. Methinks I agree. I’m a Stevie Wonder “Happy Birthday” kinda gal (moreso than The Beatles’ “Birthday”), which is in no way dirgelike or, come to think of it, clichéd.And on this, my 43rd...
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Moms Rule!

Posted by mimi on Sep 28, 2007 in dish | 0 comments Okay, this bit is priceless:Assuming this is the common experience, then we’re all going to turn into our mothers. Which may not be such a bad thing.
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