Hello again, darlings. Today’s docket includes a neighbor with package amnesia, a man who thinks someone else’s nudes are party favors and a borrowed garment that returned from battle. Dear Sassy, My neighbor accepted a delivery for me while I was out of town. I thanked her, but she kept the box for six days and acted annoyed when I […]
Hello again, darlings. Today’s docket includes a neighbor with package amnesia, a man who thinks someone else’s nudes are party favors and a borrowed garment that returned from battle. Dear Sassy, My neighbor accepted a delivery for me while I was out of town. I thanked her, but she kept the box for six days and acted annoyed when I […]
Well, this column would neither be written nor posted here; I wouldn’t be writing it, and you wouldn’t be reading it if not for the fact that my parents got married on this date 70 years ago. I felt the need to take personal privilege to mention that as Mother and Daddy, sleeping side by side down in Tyler for […]
Seraphina has the eyeliner, the smile and the manners. Now she just needs someone to go home with. This 2-year-old Malinois mix has beautiful brown eyes, adorable pointed ears and a tongue-out grin that makes it very difficult to maintain any sort of emotional distance. At 57 pounds, she is a substantial sweetheart with plenty of love to give. And […]
Welcome back, darlings. This week we are dealing with wedding entitlement, houseguest delusion and the particular nerve required to order lobster on a shared check. Hydrate and keep your receipts. Dear Sassy, My college friend is getting married in Mexico. The wedding is three days long, the hotel is expensive and she has asked us to attend a welcome party, […]
Something came across my radar a few weeks back that wormed itself into my brain, metaphorically speaking. That sentence is in no way meant to diminish any individual who has experienced a worm of some sort actually having eaten part of his brain. I just keep coming back to this and asking myself a couple of questions. How can this […]
Good morning, darlings. We are easing back in with a few people who have confused friendship with open enrollment, communication with performance art and a birthday party with the Jerry Springer stage. Sassy, I invited six friends to dinner for my birthday. One texted that he was bringing a plus-one. Then he arrived with his boyfriend and two friends “who […]
It was strange that my bedside phone would be ringing before 8:00 in the morning. This particular phone was one of those old rotary Celebrity phones that had sat on my night table in my first Dallas apartment through a couple of other places and was here in the house Karl and I had then been living in for 13 […]
We’ve all had a know-it-all or two in our lives at some point. You know the type who can speak endlessly on the most esoteric of subjects with the clear intention of making those listening feel smaller and smaller while the know-it-all appears bigger and bigger. Generally speaking, we don’t like these people. Personally, I prefer those who readily admit […]
If your type is older, handsome and emotionally available, Thor would like a word. Thor is a 7-year-old German Shepherd mix with a gorgeous fluffy coat, soulful eyes and the kind of gentle face that makes you want to sit down beside him for a while. At 72 pounds, he is a substantial gentleman, but everything the SPCA has learned […]
These last few days, social media has been full of individual posts about Dolly and how she affected the lives of so many. It turns out that Dolly didn’t just entertain us in a variety of ways over the years, but she had a role to play in the actual lives of people she never met. She presented herself in […]
