Month: October 2012

Caroline (Friend #4, Nicest of the Heartless Cows) organized a chocolate tasting event for her friends at Kakoa Chocolate. The event was hosted by Brian, the owner, who won my admiration immediately when he said he started his business in 2008. “And it survived?” I wondered. Well, it survived because he makes amazing chocolates sprinkled…

Missouri is mourning Irene Treppler, former Missouri State Senator. Her greatest contribution to Missouri was Potty Parity, a law that “requires the same number of toilets for women as there are toilets and urinals for men.” What I find most interesting is her cause of death: a result of “complications from dementia at her home.”…

I mapped out everything I want to do in Saint Louis two weeks from now. That’s a pretty healthy list. I don’t think we’ll get to all of them. I am sad. Friend #4, Caroline, is leaving TeddyJ at the end of the week. She’s going off to work with an even older friend. Caroline’s…

It was 5:30 pm, and I was leaving work. I was trudging down the hallway next to a man, until the man veered toward the men’s room. The men’s room door was covered with a sign. “Women’s Room.” A huge number of our field employees are women, and since they were coming in for a…

Part 1: The Staff I walked up to the box office at the Des Peres Cinema, looked at the starting times for Argo and the Five Star Lounge, and said: “Oh no! Both the 1 AND 3 o’clock showings for Argo are sold out?” The box office boy looked at me blankly. “That is tragic!”…

Dilemma: Why Can’t I Stop Seeing the Other Point of View? I am about as liberal as one can get, but I can’t keep myself from reading liberal tweets and thinking, “How would that sound coming from the other side?” Spoiler! It never sounds good. I am about as liberal as one can get, and…

Saint Louisans, feel free to give your honest assessment of these activities. Some of them are a little B-list; some are more child-oriented. Make your own recommendations as well. (I’m not going to the Arch, though.) First full week of November, remember. Good outdoors weather. Mansions! Chatillion-Deminl Mansion and / or Lemp Mansion – I’m…

I live in an insulated political bubble, and I don’t like it. During the debate tonight, Gary and I cheered and whooped, I followed liberals on Twitter, and then Gary watched MSNBC. Gary visited the bathroom and I switched on FOX, because there cannot be only one side to a story, or because I wanted…