Gays can adopt in Florida — overturning crazy 1977 prohibition
After yesterday’s ridiculous vote on the don’t ask/don’t tell scenario, this announcement below comes as a very welcome bit of news: From the Tampa Tribune 9/22/10 Court affirms Florida ban on adoption by gays unconstitutional The Associated Press Florida will immediately stop enforcing its ban on adoptions by gay people following a decision by a […]
My not-so-married life
This month, September, in fact today, is the anniversary of my divorce. I’ve been divorced twice as long now as my marriage even lasted. And yet, I found myself thinking of my brief experience of being a married woman last night and again this morning.
Black and white and red all over
I know — it’s supposed to be “read” all over as in that old childhood joke — What’s black and white and read all over? A newspaper! But if you read this blog, you’ll have the context for why I’m writing it as red, not read. I’ve been thinking a lot about the comments I […]
Doug Holders says stay-at-home moms aren’t part of “workforce” … oh, no he dit’nt!
I already didn’t like Doug Holder — current State Representative District 70 — too much for his stance, voting, and wishy-washy statements on oil drilling off the coast of Florida, but now I like the guy even less. Holder is a holdover from the Mad Men era — apparently, the guy doesn’t have a clue […]
MC … Sarasota Smoothie Queen
If you read my July Cappuccino Chez MC column, you might recall that I’m slowly transitioning from outsourcing my meals to insourcing them. Meaning — yup, that’s right, I’ve got to feed myself at home! My desire to transition is based on a lot of ideals — I don’t want to waste my time in […]
Love between the raindrops
If you have no idea who you are anymore, try to recall a time when you did. When you knew who you were undeniably. When you moved with a sureness that came from presenting yourself in the truest way — whether people liked you or not, whether someone hired you or not, whether you could […]
MC (and Coco) in da house
Clearing out a folder of photos and came across these. Just goes to show the fact that at least in 2008 and early 2009, I actually did get out of my house and into “da house!”
Heads up
I know, know for sure, I’m going to alienate some friends, family, maybe even a paramour or two with this blog. But, HELLO!!? Can we please eat with our heads up?
Sarasota: nearly seventh heaven
Who knows, really, what that phrase means anyway? But whatever it is, I think I’m entering it. Yup. Today is the first day of my seventh year back here in Sarasota — and also the beginning of my seventh year of being in business for myself. When I left Boston six years ago, I really […]
Fear and loathing in Sarasota
Last night, I worked a bit late, stopped for dinner, and then was going to head back into my office and do a bit more, but stopped first in the kitchen to cut up some roasted chicken I’d bought as a treat for my cats. I stood there for some time at the counter, cutting, […]