Month: December 2009

News to me

I don’t watch the news anymore – ever.  I don’t have time in the morning, I don’t have time at night, and so I just don’t do it.  I mean, I hear things – but I don’t know the stories.  I catch snippets – but don’t know the details. Currently, I have no idea what…

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Specs

When I was a little girl riding my bike over the adobe hills on the outskirts of Montrose, Colorado, and throwing dry ice bombs into the canal behind the house across the street, and trespassing into various fields in the name of bedlam, my Uncle Chester was busy being a ROCKET SCIENTIST at NASA.  No…

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It’s good to be a Parsons

For the past several years, Thanksgiving has been the occasion of the Parsons’ Family Christmas Picture.  We usually get some great outtakes – but never so amazing as this. Does anyone know what’s happening here?  Anyone?  Anyone?  Because I have no recollection of this moment. But clearly, Swayze was wrong: SOMEBODY puts Baby in a…

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