"One thing that's good about procrastination is that you always have something planned for tomorrow." -- G.B. Stern With the active social life I lead, it's difficult to choose only one aspect of an entire …
November 24, 2004
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Putting It Off
Piano Passion
It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself." -- J.S. Bach It was all so dingy …
November 18, 2004
Girls Going Wild
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. -- Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde Bachelorette Party (B.P.) -- An event at which a bride-to-be drinks excessive amounts of alcohol and …
November 11, 2004
Cavities and Costumes
From ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggety beasties and things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us! --Cornish prayer My key twisted in the door and I leaned on the handle. Enough time …
November 4, 2004
Reader writer Barbarella goes to Hollywood
Looking down the row of colorful fan-filled T-shirts, holding my sign high for all to see, I experience a moment of concern at being among so many cultural castaways. And when I stand to take …
July 15, 2004
I Kid You Not!
“You will recollect the life you wasted, and you will resent that poor kid every time you want to do something for yourself.”
July 1, 2004
Barbarella – San Diego's premiere blogger
Barbarella began keeping a blog, or Web log, in 2000. The following are selections from her website, http://barbylon.diaryland.com. 2003-11-04I AM Corybantic The word of the day is “corybantic,” defined by AWAD as “wild; frenzied; uncontrolled.” …
April 29, 2004