To Kiss of Not To Double Kiss.

January 17, 2010

At cocktail parties there seems to be a lot of people double kissing — a gaggle of revellers who insist that one kiss is not enough; that if you kiss them you are going to have to turn the other cheek.

This is how it goes. You say, “Oh, hi!” and move toward the person, perhaps kissing them on one side of the cheek, and then just when you’re about to move on to the next person, they pull you back in for the second smooch. Frankly, it feels contrived, affected really, but when I expressed my concern to one partygoer, she

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Gossip is in the ear of the beholder

Friends, Romans, Countrymen-do not lend me your ears.

I come to bury gossip, not to praise it. For the quality of slander is not restrained. It is twice cursed. Gossip curseth him that gives and him that takes.

Since the beginning of time people have talked about each other. I am certain in caveman times they sat around rubbing sticks together: “When is Ug ever going to evolve and get his paws off the ground? ”

However, the word gossip didn’t surface in our language until Old English. The word godsib originally referred to a close female friend present at the birth of a

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Road Warrior

When I lived in the big city, I blamed the fast pace of life on urban living. I would drive to my business careening through city streets doing my lipstick, talking on a cell phone and breast-feeding two kids all at the same time. Now that I live in the country, I realize I have not slowed down one iota. I am the type of person who believes
the speed limit is merely a suggestion. I think I am trying to drive as fast as I think. I used to drive 118 kilometers per hour, now I’m doing 130 kilometers per

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