If you read last week’s column (and I hope you did), I told you we might talk this week about why one should never offend a hairdresser if I didn’t see anyone wearing a Trump “Make Christmas Great Again” sweater. Well, I didn’t. And I’m a little disappointed that I didn’t because it could have made a great picture for […]
I found out when I was 16 years old that Daddy believed having a driver’s license meant that I was supposed to have a job when I wasn’t in school. So the summer after I got my license, I took a job working at a ladies’ shoe store downtown. (What were they thinking?) When that didn’t work out, Daddy arranged […]
It is with a heavy heart that it falls to me to explain why Hillary Clinton is not going to be the next President of the United States. You may have heard that it was because of a white backlash from working class voters. Or, she had the right numbers of votes but with the wrong geographic distribution to win […]
Everyone can agree this was a momentous election. That’s true anytime the White House is up for grabs (1988, 2000, 2008) or when the country is in the mood to fire the sitting president (1976, 1980, 1992). You know that our last three presidents went into office with their respective parties holding control of both houses of Congress after retaking […]
Since this is the last column before the election, there are few things I just want to throw out there for you to think about. Just in case. Did you hear about this survey by the Public Religion Research Institute that found that 72% of likely Trump voters believe the quality of life in America has diminished since the 1950’s? […]
I don’t like surprises. Not usually, anyway. Maybe because my experience has not been of the “Surprise, you just won $100,000,000” variety. It’s been more of the “Guess what, we’re shutting down the Dallas office” type. Capisce? (I had to look up that spelling.) There are those delicious surprises that we sometimes get from the movies. Lines like “I see […]
From Candy Land to Candy Crush, people love to play games. (Except for my husband, but that’s a story for another time.) In my family, we played games as a holiday tradition—something for everyone to do while the turkey was baking. Family anecdotes (“Remember when we were playing Hearts and…”) are born around the game table. And, when people aren’t […]
Last Saturday night, Karl and I attended the annual Black Tie Dinner in Dallas, the largest fundraising dinner held in the nation benefiting the LGBT community. But his experience of it was a little different than mine. We’ve done about 30 of these dinners over the years, plus other occasional “formal-ish” events. So you will understand that I can and […]
No doubt about it—presidential politics fell lower than ever this week with the first debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. And it wasn’t just one low, there were several of them. But let’s go right to rock bottom, shall we? The Trump Tease about Bill Clinton’s sexual infidelities, including the possibility that Gennifer Flowers would attend the debate, was […]
Now that we’re just days away from the first presidential debate, there’s a blanket of anxiety cloaking the nation’s voters. I won’t include non-voters for reasons I’m just not prepared to discuss. Clinton supporters are anxious to the point of bed wetting, especially since Nate Silver—one of my favorite geeks—has dropped the probability of a Clinton win to below 58 […]
