Release the hounds!

What do you do with 900 greyhounds that need homes?
We’ll get to see over the next few weeks as The Woodlands dog track closes down. The closing will put more than 200 people out of work, and leave hundreds of dogs looking for a new home.
Opponents of greyhound racing are happy that the track is closing, [...]

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Paper or plastic?

The other night on the way home, I stopped at my grocery store to pick up a few things. Bread. Eggs. Milk. Watercress, which I never found. Some feta cheese. My favorite Weight Watchers fudge bars, which I couldn’t find, either.
I pushed my cart of ten items or less up toward the front of the store and [...]

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Mad Women

I know, I know. I’m the last person on the planet to see Mad Men, just nominated for 16 Emmys. (Season 2 premieres Sunday night on AMC.) So I spent more than eight hours over the weekend watching part of the all-day, first-season marathon. And can I just say? I so crave a martini and a cigarette right [...]

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Losing Grandma

 
 
Grandma is dying. She’s had a long life, 97 years so far. I wish I could say she’s had a good life, but I don’t think it ever was.
Her father was murdered in Mexico when she was a toddler. Her mother remarried an abusive man who beat the crap out of her and her two [...]

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Voguing like a polygamist

Contrary to published reports, I cannot believe that the clothes being sold by that wacky polygamist sect in Texas are selling fast. Have you seen them? Dresses for teens that reach down to the ankles? Are you kidding me?
I would be the first person to lash out at what I think are inappropriate styles marketed [...]

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When Cyclists Attack!

See that guy at right? The one in the venerable yellow jersey? Now there’s a biker who knows how to ride.
I wish I could say the same for the rest of us.
This is a time of year that I dread. The Tour de France begins this weekend, and over the next two weeks, wanna-be Tour competitors will [...]

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Waiting for Angie’s Babies

Let the waiting begin.
Angelina Jolie went into the hospital earlier today, apparently ready to unleash two more beautiful children upon the world. 
Anyone know where they’re registered?! Baby Gap? The UNICEF gift shop?
I am obsessed with Brangelina. Well, more specifically, just with Angelina. Those eyes, those lips, those tats, the whole Mother-Teresa-save-the-children-of-the-world thing.
I believe in the hereafter.  And if [...]

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Summer Madness at Old Navy

Oh the draw of $1 flip-flops.

You would have thought Old Navy was giving gasoline away Saturday morning. By the time I arrived with five eager nieces and nephews in tow, the Olathe store had been open only 15 minutes, and already moms were leaving the store as if it was on fire, kids and Old Navy plastic bags in hand.

In one of the wealthiest counties in the nation, the lure of cheap rubber flip-flops was just too much to resist.

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We’re Off to See the Wizard

This will be a blog about: Celebrities, Stephen Colbert, QVC, chocolate, shoes, Sex and the City, purses, my family, my doggie Coco Chanel, newspapers, everything Wizard of Oz, shopping, my friends, chocolate and Stephen Colbert! 

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