tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-1734332 2011-12-09T05:35:00-05:00 TypePad http://www.amusingboomer.com/logo.jpgAmusingboomerhttp://feedburner.google.com tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a010534977441970b0153942631e6970b 2011-12-09T05:35:00-05:00 2011-12-07T15:11:32-05:00 liz glatzer Defined as...Self control. Determination. Drive. Grit. Single mindedness. Can you relate? Picture Helen, who wasn't going to indulge in even the teeniest, tiniest, itsy bitsyish, mini slice of the...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Amusingboomer/~4/1vVkWuz5FUQ" height="1" width="1"/> tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a010534977441970b01539400e004970b 2011-12-05T04:51:00-05:00 2011-12-05T06:47:56-05:00 liz glatzer "You look great, gorgeous, fantastic," he said. "Oh, no, really, I don't" she said, casting her eyes downward, eyelashes a flutter. Gently rearranging the curl that had fallen into her line of...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Amusingboomer/~4/J7BFZA0au5M" height="1" width="1"/> tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a010534977441970b015393bee9e2970b 2011-12-01T04:59:00-05:00 2011-12-01T23:13:26-05:00 liz glatzer In 1968, the story goes, some enterprising creatives at the venerated advertising agency BBDO slipped 15 marbles, or thereabouts, under the vegetables in a bowl of vegetable soup. Not for flavor...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Amusingboomer/~4/XnOPB2cVGZ4" height="1" width="1"/> tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a010534977441970b015436be1fee970c 2011-11-11T04:26:00-05:00 2011-11-09T11:59:34-05:00 liz glatzer "So," he wrote to her in his first 'on line find your soulmate forever and ever' correspondence, "you stated you like to travel. What's been your favorite place, thus far"? "Oh, that's easy," she...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Amusingboomer/~4/DbJyjS0YMho" height="1" width="1"/> tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a010534977441970b0162fc1f8e83970d 2011-11-07T05:03:00-05:00 2011-11-10T10:14:43-05:00 liz glatzer Take a good luck at this image. Which one is the healthy one? Finished? It's the little guy on the right. Would you have picked him? That's why I'm not a scientist, but a slave to the fashion...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Amusingboomer/~4/iju95sDHo8E" height="1" width="1"/> tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a010534977441970b0154369098b1970c 2011-11-03T05:08:00-04:00 2011-11-01T20:14:23-04:00 liz glatzer It's that time of the year again, isn't it? I'm not talking about desperately trying to locate last years unbelievably outstanding, to die for, turkey stuffing recipe; recalculating how many pounds...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Amusingboomer/~4/P9PHCIhE3JE" height="1" width="1"/> tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a010534977441970b01543683b325970c 2011-10-31T06:24:25-04:00 2011-10-31T06:21:05-04:00 liz glatzer I have great admiration for the journalist Nicholas Kristof. He doubted WMD in Iraq. He focused his attention on genocide in Dafur. His columns dissect the issues of poverty, gender and health. He is...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Amusingboomer/~4/wlQoQpJMaNU" height="1" width="1"/> tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a010534977441970b0153926545e1970b 2011-10-19T04:00:00-04:00 2011-10-18T13:21:40-04:00 liz glatzer Actually, the correct Shakespearean quip is "frailty, thy name is woman." Frailty, however, was no longer a useful descriptor of woman what with the advent of hormone replacement therapy coupled with...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Amusingboomer/~4/f0u_SHW6U5U" height="1" width="1"/> tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a010534977441970b015435fb7957970c 2011-10-09T05:12:00-04:00 2011-10-08T07:00:18-04:00 liz glatzer Right, it's a hydrangea. But, even Thomas Moore knew that hydrangea wouldn't work itself gracefully into a line of poetry. And besides, finding one rose alive and well while all its mates are...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Amusingboomer/~4/awvxM-hQDPg" height="1" width="1"/> tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a010534977441970b014e8ac8d358970d 2011-08-20T08:08:00-04:00 2011-08-19T22:08:21-04:00 liz glatzer Gladys, feeling somewhat desperate, looked furtively around the communal dressing room. Was there, she wondered, anyone that she could really really trust to ask, "how do I really really look in this...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Amusingboomer/~4/hv22tLxkGdk" height="1" width="1"/>