The Diary of a Gold-Digger

At book club last night, we talked about Assisted Loving: Double Dating with My Dad , or something like that, a memoir by Bob Morris, who is...

Remember Yves , the French boyfriend who claimed to be a millionaire but lived in spartan, washing his clothes in the sink, miserliness? He ...

In my days of desperate dating, I went to the man mall on the internet, as anyone who has access to the internet at work while she has long,...

My Miami duplex was part of a pair - two duplexes sharing the same yard. My across the yard neighbor, Mousson, was great. We were friends. H...

When I got the job in Miami, the Yellow Truck Sweatshop Employer, who shall go unnamed, flew me to Miami for a few days a month before I was...

I moved to Miami for a job with a big company, which will remain unidentified but let's just say "yellow trucks," in the sweat...

My friend Jackie still has not forgiven me for this. She brings it up every time I see her, which sadly, has not been for the past few years...

When I was working for the insurance company, I sold direct and also worked through brokers. Some accounts would take direct bids from the v...

Dr J, my mother's gentleman caller, died suddenly and unexpectedly last week. He fell down the stairs ten days ago, hit his head, went i...

In one of my first jobs after college, I worked for an insurance company that no longer exists as I knew it then. Then, the company required...

Actually, it might have been two dogs. But let me start at the beginning. Before that, I'll tell you I am going for a quick story today ...

I had been accepted at the UT-Austin graduate school of business. My friend Rebecca and I were sharing a house, but she was moving to D.C. f...

I had to move out of the room I was renting from Crazy Carmen in D.C. I had gone to Washington D.C. after I got out of the Peace Corps in th...

I moved from Maruja la Bruja's house (Maruja the Witch) to Janette's house. I had met Janette when I shopped at her knitting store. ...

I will tell you all about Michelle McMichael, the worst landlady I have ever had, but first I need to tell you about other landlords* so you...