I have a con­fes­sion to make: I am a for­mer Catholic school­girl.
I’ve since been saved from the church and have been blas­phem­ing ever since. When I heard the news that The Vatican gave Avatar a poor re­view and crit­i­cized the film for “flirt­ing with mod­ern doc­trines that pro­mote the wor­ship of na­ture as a sub­sti­tute for re­li­gion,” my im­me­di­ate thought was, “Wow, someone’s […]

With the New Year comes new res­o­lu­tions, goals you set that are meant to give your life struc­ture and mean­ing against the dol­drums that we call “January”, “February” and “Smarch”. We al­low our­selves to in­dulge in so many sins dur­ing the hol­i­days be­cause we re­ally be­lieve that on January 1^st, we will crawl out of […]

A friend re­cently sent me an ar­ti­cle called “Why I’m Alone”. It is a re­sponse by Huffington Post colum­nist Lea Lane to the ques­tion she is of­ten asked in the years fol­low­ing the death of her hus­band: Why is she still alone? Why doesn’t she date much?
While I’ve never loved and lost like Ms. Lane, I can […]

John Hughes passed away yes­ter­day and the news made me sad and a lit­tle melancholic. You see, I was in my teens in the 80s and watched Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Pretty in Pink and Sixteen Candles in the movie the­atres when they were re­leased (when ad­mis­sion was only $4!). Hughes’ char­ac­ters be­came very per­sonal to me; some­how, this 30-something adult male […]

The re­cent spate of celebrity deaths have taken some amaz­ing and tal­ented peo­ple away from us.
Ed McMahon, side­kick and Publisher’s Clearing House spokesman, was part of my parent’s Tonight Show, which I shunned be­cause my 14-year-old, punk-ass self, completely con­sumed with the sar­donic hu­mour of SCTV and Saturday Night Live, thought it was passé. (It was only when I bought a DVD […]