The Holiday Do-over

From my Starbucks cup:  Childhood is a strange country.  It’s a place you come from or go to- at least in your mind.  For me, it has an endless, spell bound something in it that feels remote.  It’s like a little sealed vault country of cake breath and grass stains where what you do instead [...]

Celebrity Book List

If I were a celebrity anywhere else besides my own mind, maybe Oprah would interview me for O magazine, and then on her website, I’d have the What’s on Tammy’s Bookshelf feature.  So that I’ll be prepared for that moment, here it is:
 Caucasia by Danzy Senna 
I am a big fan of memoir. I think the draw [...]

The List of Excuses

Collusion: definition (dictionary.com): Collusion: secret agreement, esp. for fraudulent or treacherous purposes; conspiracy, a secret understanding between two or more persons to gain something illegally, to defraud another of his or her rights, or to appear as adversaries though in agreement.  

Collusion: Definition (ChristineKane.com):  Collusion happens any time you’re with someone and you talk badly [...]

Dream Believe. Get off your Ass. Achieve.

Let me take you back in time, I’m in 8th grade in a small town called Los Osos, California, circa, well circa I’m not telling.  I’m a short kid, right?  It’s not like I was ever tall, there was no moment when I had a growth spurt and no one else did and I got [...]

What’s That One Kinda-like-a?

Communicating with a 2-year old is fun, but challenging.  It makes me think about how I communicate in general, do I get my point across, do I make sense?  If I don’t make sense to a 2-year old, am I understood by the rest of the world? 
At first it was easy.  The question was [...]