The Diary of a Gold-Digger

When I lived in Miami, I didn't have a TV, so I needed things to do in the few short hours when I was not at work in the salt mines know...

Have I ever told you guys why I hate skiing? Other than the obvious - that it is 1. an expensive sport where you 2. have to wear clothes tha...

It's a good thing I didn't have a flat tire is all I can think of now. Or that my radiator didn't blow up, which it had done bef...

For years after my dad died (in 1997), I had this dream where I would hear his voice calling me from the kitchen. It was the kitchen in my p...

After I had been a Peace Corps volunteer for a year, the director of my agency, Pilar, said we were going to do a review of the previous yea...

My friend Anita always warned me never to say, "MY kid would never do something like that" because if I ever did have kids, they w...

When Primo and I moved into our house, the basement-flooding, heat-losing, 1928 brick moneypit that we call home, we needed a fair amount of...

The summer after I graduated from business school, instead of doing the smart, practical thing and getting a job, I, fed up, fed UP I tell y...

For a while, I worked in let's say Omaha at one of my company's factories there. I was there only for six months and then was suppos...

Primo: I thought your [double secret probation] blog was supposed to be about me. Me: It is, mostly. But I have run out of material [which i...

Yes. Sleazy, sleazy, sleazy. Don't hate me. I am ashamed of what I did and have reformed. I do not sleep with anyone else's boyfrien...