DIANA REPUBLIC

I am not normally a nag. I am a lot of other things: impatient, moody and sometimes an all around pain in the ass, but not a nag. After months and months of listening to the television on volumes meant for sports bars not homes, however, I started to nag. Bob claimed that at normal [...]

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Bathing suit shopping is a cake walk, if you ask me, compared to bra shopping. That may be only because I apparently have a very unique pair of breasts. Of course they are, you say. Well they are, but only because they don’t make bras to fit them. I have been measured and fitted and [...]

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I listen to National Public Radio a lot on my car radio. There doesn’t seem to be any one radio station that plays a mix of music that I enjoy. I know, shocking that there are no hip hop/folk singer/rap/rock stations. Even when I can find a station that is playing a song that I [...]

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When luggage began appearing on wheels (yes I am that old, but its not like I remember the original wheel) I thought, of course. Actually I thought “We have been schlepping luggage around for how many years? Man, are we a bunch of dumb bunnies.” But it was a good and functional plan that has [...]

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I have decided that I must have been in the military in a former life. I am categorically obsessed with cargo pants. I just love them. It seems to have been the only carryover from my previous life as an army grunt because I hate guns and have real issues with authority. It would appear [...]

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I owe Bob a formal apology. For Valentine’s Day he made plans for us to see Jeff Tweedy in an acoustic performance for charity. I gave him a hard time for this because I decided it wouldn’t be romantic. Now let be me clear: I like Jeff Tweedy very much – that wasn’t the issue. [...]

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I am relatively new to the whole American Idol thing, which, considering my affinity for bad television, is weird. So help a sister out: I watched as the judges dismissed a bunch of contestants supporting their decision with the argument that they couldn’t win the whole bag of marbles. So to follow that logic am [...]

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I don’t mean to keep writing about The Bachelor, but then again I don’t really mean to keep watching The Bachelor. I just can’t help myself. Besides what with all the gloom and doom and layoffs and bailouts, reality television may be just what the doctor ordered. Also I seem to have been on a [...]

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When my People Magazine arrived this week, the cover boasted an article about a Florida couple that cloned their Labrador Retriever complete with a sweet picture of the pup. Rarely does my weekly gossip magazine fix get me fired up about anything other than a fashion crime, but this week was different. I am admittedly [...]

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I found a lost dog yesterday. Not a stray dog, but a lost dog. He was clean and friendly, but without an owner, a collar or any identification. I took him to the closest vet to get him scanned. In a perfect world this would be a really short story where we scan him and [...]

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