https://arlynnpresser.com/2019/10/10/the-palmers-kiss-2/2019-10-10T19:39:40+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2019/10/04/the-palmers-kiss/2019-10-08T04:47:34+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2016/08/05/betrayal-rejection-the-usual-and-then-the-six-month-plan/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/black.jpgblacki have half a dozen black sweaters. no colors. same with skirts, pants, jackets, shoes. in the eighties (nineteenth not eighteenth) it was a sophisticated choice. now i just look like i'm going to my own funeral. ashes to my ashes and dust to my dust. do you have a similar wardrobe quirk?https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/portland-hospital.jpgportland hospitalwhat a great hospital! really nice doctors and nurses. they gave me the functional equivalent of a checkup in just a few hours and concluded that i'm a pretty much healthy femme d'un certain age but that i might need a neurologist/neurosurgeon and definitely should check back in with my primary care physician when i got back home.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/cute-puppy.jpgcute puppyoscillating acceptance and rejection is a sure fire way to make your dog go crazy. putting a picture of a cute puppy in a blog post is a sure fire way of making people go "awwwww!"https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/remembrancestsebastian.jpgremembrancestsebastianthe show is this weekend at the st. sebastian players in chicago -- https://www.facebook.com/events/149459822146863/ -- but it's not the first time it's had a run. two runs of the show were done by blockbuster producer marion scully. and another time at the chicago literary club. actors, sound engineers, musicians, even the nice lady beverly parkhurst who takes the tickets--every one of them. every one of them gave up time and talent for the play. i'm going this weekend and i hope to see you there!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/rejection.jpgrejectionugh, you can't sit at this lunch table!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/turnpike.jpgturnpikethis is not a thought experiment to perform while driving on the ohio turnpike. when i did it, i had to pull over because the emotion was so overwhelming. otherwise, that eighteen wheeler behind me would have started a mosh pit of cars and trucks and amish carriages. our tippy cups are filled with self loathing and guilt when we are young that we splatter all over ourselves. i was able to work up to ten seconds or so with that thought. then i'd be my usual self.2016-08-09T17:06:10+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2015/08/23/leaving-home-goodbye/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/williamandpongo.jpgwilliamandpongomy trusty guides william clark and pongo the dog are with me!2016-04-15T08:07:27+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2015/06/14/remembrance-for-you/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/elizabeth.jpgelizabethif you want to out-cateblanchette cate blanchette and be elizabeth i i'm down with that. in the last production, we had a cleopatra, a winston churchill, an abraham lincoln and a lot of other interesting characters. https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/poppies.gifpoppiesin april, we put on remembrance at the winnetka community house. we repeatedly sold out and now we're going to do it again. 2015-06-15T02:14:42+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2015/01/17/remembrance/2015-03-15T17:28:29+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2014/12/21/my-new-years-resolution/2014-12-29T16:45:41+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2014/12/19/merry-little-christmas/2014-12-21T07:28:01+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2014/12/15/addressing-those-pesky-rumors/2014-12-17T01:31:52+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2014/11/21/santa-baby/2014-11-21T23:16:48+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2014/11/13/maybe-i-will-buy-you-that-life-insurance/2014-11-13T01:06:27+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2014/11/12/my-superhero-went-home-to-daddy/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ashton-and-isaac.jpgashton and isaacwhen i visited ashton at cincinnati, he had a favorite friend isaac. both boys are superheroes. https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ashton.jpgashtongoodbye superboy!2014-11-14T06:16:57+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2014/11/07/sutton-lee-seymour/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/seymour2.jpgseymourprescott, you are my hero!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/seymour1.jpgseymourlittle shop of horrors is a movie/play/movie about audrey II, a carnivorous plant cared for by a florist assistant seymour who named the audrey II in honor of his true love audrey. audrey is terrorized by the abusive boyfriend orin but finds the courage to leave--because there's "suddenly seymour" the most popular song from this show is "suddenly seymour" which i can't get out of my head right now. karma alert: audrey II ends up with a nice orin meal. https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/seymour.jpgseymourlittle shop of horrors is a play/movie about a woman in an abusive relationship with a dentist who finds true love with 2014-11-07T19:40:11+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2014/10/01/prayer-chain/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/archangel.jpgarchangelthe archangel michael is a badass saint in the islamic, jewish and christian traditions. heck, even the jehovah's witnesses believe in him and that he is the incarnation of jesus before his birth. so consider praying to this dude on ashton's behalf.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/carley.jpgcarleyashton was diagnosed in a particularly horrific fashion. he and his mother were going to his sisters confirmation. ashton and erin were going to stay overnight with me but ended up in the hospital because ashton had an ear infection. the doctors figured out he had cancer. i'm sure i would have broken down a dozen times if i were erin but she has become the strongest woman i know.2014-10-01T19:56:26+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2014/09/04/the-reward-of-fear/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/ftroop.jpgftroopa sixties show f-troop included a cameo appearance from a character from banff. the town was pronounced banf-f-f-f because it is a little confusing about what to do with the extra f.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/switchback.jpgswitchbackwow, just drive up to the edge of the side of the mountain, then do a u turn and go to the other side. yikes!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/william-clark.jpgwilliam clarklanny wrote "william clark and the shaping of the west" which is an incredible account of how this dude did the lewis and clark expedition and other things. i have a william clark plush toy i take everywhere on my journeys. william clark has a facebook page which lanny runs. ain't that neat?2014-10-01T16:38:00+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2014/08/29/4603/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ec.jpgecfederico hosted a website devoted to e c seger's beloved popeye. in chester, we took pictures of the popeye statues.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/winnetka.jpgwinnetkabig shout out to winnetka, illinois which was my home for close to a quarter century!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/dinosaur.jpgdinosaureverything in south dakota is bigger, including the pets. this dinosaur on a leash is outside 1880 town in jackson county south dakota!2014-09-03T15:30:50+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2014/08/19/wilson-stewart-and-the-madoffs/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/bernie.jpgbernielet's say you are a professional in a position of trust--like, say, a lawyer or investment advisor--and let's say you use your client's money as if it were your personal checking account. do it once, okay, that's troubling. do it twice, whoa there! do it three times and we get to call you bernie madoff.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/tony.jpgtonytony stewart ran over and killed racer kevin hart as hart walked out onto the track to confront stewart. prior to this incident, stewart was known as an aggressive driver but offtrack was considered a teddy bear.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/darren.jpgdarrenby all accounts, darren wilson was a perfectly ordinary suburban cop with nary a disciplinary action taken against him. he encountered michael brown on a ferguson street and within minutes he had shot michael dead. rioting, outrage, and possible murder and federal civil rights charges against him. 2014-08-26T21:57:39+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2014/08/16/packed-to-be-home/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/justice.jpgjusticei always take with me my william clark doll. william clark was a fearless adventurer, famously traveling from st. louis to the northwest coast with his friend merriweather lewis and the lahmi shashone woman sacajawea charbonneau. i bet he was a big believer in baby wipes, especially since sacajawea had her son jean-baptiste with her!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/windmill.jpgwindmillthis morning's disaster was having breakfast with facebook friend tony tyner in batavia, illinois--the windmill capital of the world. the disaster was when tony hit me with a pie. he has great aim! https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/passport.jpgpassportin 2011, i made a new year's resolution to spend facetime with every one of my then 325 facebook friend within the calendar year. it was an adventure and in one 17 day period, i circumnavigated the globe and visited friends in 11 countries. my passport is a mess.2014-08-17T16:29:30+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2014/08/13/the-comedians-club/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/robin-williams.jpgrobin williamsi hope you're having a wonderful time hanging out at the comedian's club. https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/snake.jpgsnakein other news, this particular snake was counting on me. i fed him, gave him water, but he died. wow, disposing of his body was quite an enterprise. the apartment smells to high heaven because the blowflies deposited larvae before i did. https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/freddie-prinze.jpgfreddie prinzeNOT the freddie prinze having a bitchfest with keiffer sutherland. his father, freddie prinze, was the star of the popular seventies show "chico and the man" which was canceled when freddie prinze shot himself to death. in front of his manager dusty snyder. who must have been in therapy for years. 2014-08-13T20:39:53+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2014/08/02/dear-linda/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/boyfriend.jpgboyfriendsorry, charlie. with or without a comma.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/charlie-hill-boat.jpgcharlie hill boathere's a picture of charlie working on your boat. i have photoshopped out the gun to his head.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/linda-hoga.jpglinda hogacharlie hill? bg mistake. you let him live with you, you gave him an allowance, you took his engagement ring. oh, wait, you purchased the ring. jeez, just to be told you're pretty? been there, sistah!2014-08-05T17:28:57+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2014/07/30/supercar-saturday/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/thelma.jpgthelmaa friend, a true friend, might just be willing to hold your hand in the toughest times. thank you carolyn and thank you to all my friends!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/supercar.jpgsupercarpeople who are just as in lust with their cars gather together to ogle each other's rides. my car is not technically a supercar. in fact, it's a cheap ride that has a fancy paint job. but the folks at supercar saturdays and v12 automotive have invited me to the bannockburn show on this coming saturday!2014-07-30T18:07:36+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2014/07/23/some-risk-of-being-sued/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/birthday-song.jpgbirthday songwarner brothers owns the rights to the traditional "happy birthday to you" song and will until 2030. in the european union, the copyright extends til 2016. which is why the waitress at outback steakhouse won't sing happy birthday to you. please mr. fifty, don't sue me!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/me-and-ryan.jpgme and ryanryan, really, we both have to move on especially now that you and eva are becoming parents. think of her feelings! and the arlynn presser t-shirt isn't going to make her feel strong and confident as she should! but truly, i understand your pain. i'll always love you.2014-07-25T17:22:26+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2014/07/21/christmas-in-july-and-the-anna-karenina-principle/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/duggers.jpgduggersthe wheelers aren't like the anti-kardashian duggars insofar as they have eighteen kids too few. and they aren't doctrinal.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/funnel-cake.jpgfunnel cakei took home a funnel cake maker. i had been hoping for diamonds, but i think that's the point of white elephant parties.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/tolstoy.jpgtolstoy2014-07-21T21:14:36+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2014/07/19/e-for-everybody-is-protected/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/kidman.jpgkidmannicole kidman is the nineteen year old actress married to keith urban. oh, wait, she just looks nineteen.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/first-amendment.jpgfirst amendmentjason biggs, sure, you might not make friends and influence people with this tweet but okay, it's your right as an american. to be fair, your ouevre beginning with american pie has taught you that principle already.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/jason.jpgjasonreally? really? https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/first-amendment-celebration.jpgfirst amendment celebrationthe first amendment is a celebration of the thinker, the dreamer, the artist, the prayerful. https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/fritz.jpgfritzi was put up for adoption when i was three years old so i didn't actually meet fritz until i was twenty five and tracked my parents down. but i probably read some of fritz's stories as a teenager without realizing we were related. 2014-07-19T18:16:07+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2014/07/11/hey-ryan/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/hey-girl2.jpghey girl2no, ryan, you have to be strong!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/hey-girl.jpghey girlhe's always sending me these messages because a perfect ex is very supportive! my exhusband maximillian is exactly the same way!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/crying.jpgcryingkim kardashian and i look sort of alike when we're crying, although she is twenty years younger, has dark hair and a professional make up artist on call. otherwise, dead ringers when we heard the news!2014-07-11T17:44:34+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2014/07/08/im-possibly-your-most-secret-admirer/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/etta.jpgettathis was a good relationship for me as well.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/flowers.jpgflowersthree cards were presented to me, each with a floral theme. in one of them she wrote that she was retiring. https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/limoge.jpglimogea limoges box is created in the eponymous french city. the hinged boxes are made of kaolin clay which is native to limoges. originally created to store snuff, these are collected world wide. unfortunately, they're damn expensive. i didn't buy any true limoges for etta, but there are some awfully sweet knock-offs.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/stalker.jpgstalkera secret admirer is a very sweet thing. a stalker, on the other hand, is so not cool. https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/tussy.jpgtussya tussy mussy is a diminutive bouquet and requires patience and concentratino on the part of the florist to create. etta was the best tussy mussy emprasario--2014-07-09T11:02:07+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2014/07/07/mike-coglans-sermon-on-how-to-fight-with-the-devil/2014-07-07T02:42:14+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2014/07/02/escape-to-feywood/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/zeeb.jpgzeebthis mask was made by slathering latext on zeebs face to make a mold. the mold was then used to create the plaster mask. zeeb said the latex hurt his beard, kind of like how i feel about brazilian waxes.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/zeebbethandme.jpgzeebbethandmebeth and zeeb are pagans and devote a lot of their artistic energy to depictions of fairies and earth gods and goddesses. they have five or ten projects going on at once!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/caseys-flyboy.jpgcasey's flyboyi have published more than two dozen romance novels under my own name and the pseudonym vivian leiber. my exhusband maximillian often felt that he was the hero of my books--and he was right!2014-07-03T19:54:40+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2014/06/29/dear-jurgen/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/belgian.jpgbelgianas a committed fan of the american team, i loathe all things belgian. https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/tom-brady.jpgtom bradyamericans sure like their sports brutal and rough. they have traditionally thought of futbol as too soft and gentle--sort of like ping pong or shuffleboard or ice dancing--as opposed to the brutal american football. but soccer is pretty intense, and after watching uruguay's alvara pereira sustain a concussion and still get up and finish the game against giselle bundchen stopped thinking of tom brady as all that mus macho. after all, tom wears a helmet. and pads. all over. stop crying, tom!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/ping-pong.jpgping pongpart of the problem with soccer is that americans have thought of it as too soft and gentle, say, like table tennis, shuffleboard, or ice dancing. but soccer is pretty intense, and after watching uruguay's alvara pereira get a concussion and still get up off the field and play makes me think we should reconsider thinking of tom brady as all that mus macho. after all, tom wears a helmet. and pads. all over.2014-06-29T15:52:44+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2014/06/24/reasons-to-be-grateful-and-a-birthday-wish/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/birthday.jpgbirthdaymake sure to print out this picture and put it in your wallet. next time you have a bad day, take it out and look at it! we are meant to have a wonderful day EVERY day! https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/bcake.jpgbcake2014-06-27T23:53:33+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2014/06/22/marshmallow-farm-and-i-meet-a-really-nice-movie-star/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/party-girl.jpgparty girlgoodbye black dresses. and goodbye, or at least au revoir, to the negative. one moment by this moment. kind of need to pull over on this ohio turnpike of my life.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/communities-with-drive.jpgcommunities with drivevote soon because this contest is over in just a few days! it's easy, quick, free, and best of all you don't get collared in the parking lot by a politician. just go to https://zipcarfb-cwd.hs2solutions.com/?mobile=true&ref=unknown#_=_ or visit communities with drive facebook page. https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/top-box.jpgtop boxmy friend chris kennedy and his wife sheila started the nonprofit organization top box which helps bring fresh and affordable groceries into communities where there is a dearth of groceries. everyone should have access to good fruits and vegetables. this, by the way, is not a picture of chris.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/chris-kennedy.jpgchris kennedymy friend chris kennedy's aunt eunice started the special olympics program in 1968. sharon and brett are both fans of chris' aunt. jeez, what a small world after all!2014-06-22T17:37:48+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2014/06/21/nothing-some-collard-greens-cant-solve/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/food-porn.jpgfood pornthere is nothing in life that can't be solved with fried chicken, black eyed peas, collard greens, sweetened ice tea. if tupac and biggie had shared this meal, there would be peace on earth and good will towards east coast west coast.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/mama-dip.jpgmama dipchapel hill is part of the raleigh durham chapel hill triangle. eastern barbecue country. although there's some barbecue skirmishes about whether mustard seeds and flavoring can be part of an eastern barbecue. it's almost like crips and bloods.2014-06-21T17:47:11+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2014/06/20/sarah-you-got-this-one/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/sweetassride.jpgsweetassridei bought my car, a 350z with a chromillusion finish, from a kid in naperville. dude was holding back the tears when i gave him the cash. of course, anybody would feel that way saying goodbye to this sweet ride. but it takes a lot of tender loving care. only the finest handwash for this baby!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/agoraphobia.jpgagoraphobiaagoraphobia comes from the greek word phobia which means fear and agora which means marketplace or meeting place. the agora was the center of greek urban life and so someone who is agoraphobic quite literally is afraid of being out and about. this agora is pretty much in need of some renovations.2014-06-21T17:48:05+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2014/06/19/bunkering-down/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/mr-patrick.jpgmr patrickmy adoptive father don patrick even owned a business that built private bomb shelters. we had one in our basement. https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/bomb-drills.jpgbomb drillsif you remember doing this as a kid, we share qualifications for aarp membership and a fond memory of a crush on at least one member of the brady bunch!2014-06-21T02:13:36+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2014/06/17/almost-heaven/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/100_2282.jpg100_2282what do you think of the joint? 2014-06-17T17:54:31+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2014/06/15/read-this-post-and-dont-cry/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/erin-and-ashton.jpgerin and ashtonin addition to superhero ashton, there's superhero erin! she is his sword and shield in the battle --in other words, a beautiful mom!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/ashton-and-isaac.jpgashton and isaacwhen i showed up, ashton and his friend isaac were playing in the room across from where ashton stays. tough to say which is the better superhero!2014-06-15T19:28:30+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2014/06/13/snakes-cage/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/crazy-ex-girlfriend.jpgcrazy ex girlfriendchanging the locks on a boyfriend is pretty crazy, but sometimes crazy is the only thing that works. https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/suitcase.jpgsuitcaseme, pongo, mister tibbs, and william clark are on the run. someday we'll feel safe enough to settle but for now. . . it's the road.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/second-floor.jpgsecond floori don't know about you, but i find this picture of the side of my house disturbing. perhaps it's the ladder. and the window. i put the house on the market.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/1004097_10153090650565441_1241385559_n.jpg1004097_10153090650565441_1241385559_nnot that i'm all minimalist buddhist antimaterialist--i love my car. always will. someone tries to harm my car i will quite simply have to kill them.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/gone-baby-gone.jpggone baby gonei really have discovered that i don't need a lot of stuff. this is what went into storage.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/worst-date.jpgworst dateunless, of course, you are mina el houari who traveled to morocco to meet a dude she had met on the internet. apparently, the date went well until she suddenly collapsed into a diabetic coma. dude panicked and buried her in the backyard where she died of suffocation. 2014-06-15T12:11:01+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2013/12/18/a-christmas-story/2013-12-19T15:03:22+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2013/08/26/my-midlife-crisis-act-1-the-car-the-ex-and-the-view-from-the-rear-view-mirror/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/bad-hair.jpgbad hairthe trumpster must run into an ex every day, or maybe he's just gotten over worrying about it! 2013-12-03T21:26:34+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2013/06/23/facebook-please-give-brad-pitt-my-cell-number/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/brad-pitt.jpgbrad pittmy relationship to brad pitt is more spiritual than a mere acceptance of a friend request. still, is that enough that facebook would pretty please send him my cell phone number? 2013-06-24T13:30:27+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2013/06/17/cherries-in-the-snow/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/brautigan.jpgbrautiganrichard brautigan was a fabulous american poet and novelist who believed that there should be public libraries in which were housed one book by every citizen of the land. this democratization of literature is exactly the sort of thing that self-publishing on the internet allows for!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/cherries.jpgcherriesso i hope you go download this and read it and tell me what you think! http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DEQQZTW2013-06-17T19:26:58+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2013/06/12/narcissism-and-me/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/ovulate.jpgovulatemr panek, there's ovulate, there's overvalue, there's evaluate. unfortunately, there is no :"overvaluate" unless, of course, you have overvalued your . . . oh, never mind.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/narcissus.jpgnarcissusnarcissus was a mythological greek dude who fell in love with his reflection in a lake and died because he just couldn't tear himself away from the beautiful sight. narcissism is a catch all psychological term for anybody who thinks to highly of themselves or any one of your exes. 2013-06-13T01:44:47+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2013/06/09/shameless-selfie-fierce/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/amanda-prebreakdown.jpgamanda prebreakdowna lot of amanda's tweets are about ugliness. as in courtney love is ugly, jenny mccarthy is ugly, and that rhianna was beat up by chris brown because she is ugly. weird, because amanda was really a very beautiful girl before she started posting and tweeting her transformation. i'm glad she doesn't know me because i'm sure she would tweet that i'm ugly too. https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/snowden.jpgNSA whistebloweredward snowden, a 29 year old cia consultant, fled to hong kong with documents that outline the extent of our government's trampling of our privacy. as he says "I'm willing to sacrifice all of that because I can't in good conscience allow the US government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building." he is quite aware that he has forfeited his freedom, the option to ever return home and quite possibly his life. https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/amandabynesbreakdown.jpgamandabynesbreakdownthe former nickelodeon actress and erstwhile fashion designer amanda bynes has been posting "selfies" -- pictures of one's self that often include one's hand holding the camera or phone. amanda has been tracking her path of selfdestruction with twitter posts including increasingly bizarre selfies. she was recently evicted from her apartment in new york and arrested on drug charges. there is some indication she suffers from schizophrenia.2013-06-09T23:22:56+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/01/31/f2fb-28-brings-strange-consequences/2013-05-28T01:45:55+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2013/05/23/finally-i-am-a-winner/2013-06-05T03:07:22+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2013/05/20/mrs-vander-leydens-glasses-nearly-free-literature-and-no-english-teachers/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/english-teacher.jpgenglish teacherif you want an english teacher to demand that you do some derrida like deconstruction of the text, you have to order that separately. i think you should just sit back and enjoy. . . 2013-05-20T15:56:16+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2013/05/14/immortality-in-five-easy-steps/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/vander-leyden-cover.pngvander leyden coverthis read was published by oj dorson and the cover art created by tony tyner. it is just 99 cents which is such a steal! https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/woody.jpgwoodyeternal nothingness is fine if you're dressed for it. . . another fine quote from the man2013-05-14T13:58:27+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2013/05/13/bang-with-friends/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/bang.jpgbangbang with friends is an app that sorts through your facebook friends list, looking for friends who are interested in a casual hook up. if both of you are both interested, bang with friends will put you in touch. where and how you bang is up to you.2013-05-27T17:25:38+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2013/04/25/sequestration-explained/2013-04-25T14:41:09+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2013/04/22/an-invitation-short-notice-but-heartfelt/2013-04-23T00:04:20+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2013/04/20/please/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/please.jpgplease2013-04-22T12:18:50+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2013/04/19/not-quite-an-internet-sensation/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/rejection.jpgrejectionreally, this sort of correspondence can kill a writer's dreams but this is exactly the sort of stuff one endured. again. and again. and again.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/archivist-cover.jpgarchivist coverthis story was uploaded to amazon by my friend oj. i want you to read it, review it, and help write its second draft. click on http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CE04WGW to find it. oj, by the way, now qualifies as a publisher because he designed the cover and uploaded the text. this for this next story, i want YOUR help!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/nyorker-letter.jpgNYorker-lettera form letter is devastating because it has so many ways of being interpreted. . . from "i liked the story but my boss didn't" to "you don't even have the talent to write a grocery list". . . the new yorker magazine gets so many submissions that in the last few years they have instituted a policy of not even giving the writer this much in the way of subject matter for their insecurities.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/typewriter.jpgtypewriterripping a page out and starting over was a frustration. a thousand sheet ream of paper might yield only a twenty page short story. think about how often you hit the backspace key. 2013-04-19T13:26:50+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2013/04/14/saturday-superhero-facebook-friends/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/heroes.jpgheroesthe weird part is that if we packed lunches as a job for pay i don't think we would have had as much fun!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/stationery.jpgstationerythe fox family owned l & a stationery in winnetka. the shop sold wedding invitations, cards, school supplies, office equipment. it's hard to remember in this era of evite and ipad minis that there was a tangible beauty in the smell of a freshly sharpened pencil or the delight in running a finger across an engraved invitation. https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/180px-shackletonhead.jpg180px-Shackletonheadthe anglo-irish explorer ernest shackleton led three expeditions into antarctica. the middle expedition--named the imperial trans-arctic expedition--was sidetracked by its ship endurance being grounded. from 1914 until 1917, shackleton devoted himself to rescuing his crew. without any loss of life, he managed to bring back his crew and cement his heroic status.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/heidi.jpgheidia few weeks ago, the model heidi klum rescued her seven year old son henry from a riptide off the coast of the hawaii island where the family vacationed. i would jump right in the water too if my son's life was in danger. . . of course, i wouldn't look as great!2013-04-14T16:38:58+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2013/04/13/america-runs-on-facebook-time/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/bulova.jpgbulovain 1941, the watch company bulova paid $9 to air a commercial just before a brooklyn dodgers philadelphia phillies baseball game. the ad was nothing more than this picture with some voice over. https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/skittles.jpgskittlesokay, how likely are you to visit skittles.com? how likely are you to "like" skittles on facebook? in march, 2012 skittles.com attracted 23,000 unique users in the united states. during that same period the skittles page on facebook was a new "like" for 320,000 people. i want a job responding to posts from fans of skittles. i also want free skittles.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/shroud.jpgshroudthe shroud of turin is a piece of linen kept at that italian town's cathedral of saint john the baptist. it bears the image of a man who has injuries consistent with being crucified. some people think it was the burial shroud of jesus. the shroud of pessimism is when everybody thinks you've got nails in your hands and feet and you're dying in between two thieves.2013-11-20T17:40:11+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2013/04/08/home-sweet-facebook-home/2013-04-08T16:33:49+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2013/03/30/marky-z-gives-it-up-for-the-tax-man/2013-04-07T23:52:39+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2013/03/29/this-facebook-friend-is-crazy-talented-and-she-came-to-visit-me/2013-03-29T18:43:47+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2013/03/19/will-you-be-my-beta-reader/2013-03-21T21:27:14+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2013/03/19/imitation-and-yes-im-flattered/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/marky-z.jpgmarky zsome analysts thought facebook might be announcing the creation of its own phone. rather, facebook is offering optional software called "home"2013-03-20T15:19:05+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2013/02/07/facebook-breakup/2013-02-11T17:39:22+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2013/02/05/friends-for-life-with-or-without-facebook/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/fischerfritz.jpgfischerfritzharry fischer and frtiz leiber2013-02-05T20:18:44+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2013/01/30/easiest-place-to-be-asked-out-on-a-date-should-be/2013-02-01T21:54:33+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2013/01/27/a-sword-pulled-like-excalibur-from-my-chest-by-my-enemy-ativan/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/ativan.jpgativani was first prescribed ativan six years ago while going through a painful separation from my then husband (who is now my ex-husband and one of my closest friends). https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/dhangel.jpgdhangeli woke up two days ago and couldn't shake this feeling that i had been the one to plunge the sword into my own heart.. 2013-02-11T17:53:03+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2013/01/24/at-long-last-a-book-and-a-very-personal-book-signing/2013-01-29T14:23:46+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2013/01/21/i-really-thought-it-was-over-my-stalker-returns/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/dolph-lundgren.jpgdolph lundgreni have always had a crush on dolph lundgren. maybe he would volunteer to be my bodyguard! so if you're facebook friends with mr. dreamy lundgren, have him get in touch. like really in touch with me!2013-01-30T19:28:26+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2013/01/14/poke/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/poke.jpgpokeconnie "poked" jim on facebook and it led to true love and happiness. maybe you should go to your facebook friends list and see if there's somebody you'd like to poke. 2013-01-14T20:46:08+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2013/01/10/4226/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/leslie.jpgleslieface to facebook (f2fb) friend number #331 lesley riley did me the greatest favor of coming all the way from california to meet me! we had a wonderful afternoon together and i encourage any facebook friends to say "hey i'd like to come see you on your own turf" otherwise i show up on their turf!2013-01-21T02:08:06+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/friends-in-alphabetical-order/2014-09-09T16:09:45+00:00weekly0.6https://arlynnpresser.com/f2fb-friends-by-the-numbers/2014-06-23T22:35:42+00:00weekly0.6https://arlynnpresser.com/2013/01/05/my-stalkers-response/2013-02-15T03:25:15+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2013/01/02/my-stalker/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/heart1.jpghearti would sort of understand this situation if there had been any romantic interest within either of us. but that's not the case. https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/heart.jpgheart2013-01-08T20:25:22+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/12/19/so-you-say-you-want-a-resolution/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/leslie.jpglesliemy facebook friend lesley riley is someone i wasn't blessed to have as my friend in 2011. she came to the bat girl cave from her home in california in order to say "hey, you're not just a facebook friend!" i admire her a lot and think she's adorable!2012-12-19T02:02:32+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/12/13/mark-can-i-have-a-job/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/cafeteria.jpgcafeteriain addition to the george washingtons, interns at facebook get "normal" employee benefits of an iphone, a laptop, access to their gym and three meals a day at the company's cafeteria.2012-12-14T14:46:51+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/12/08/a-is-for-ativan-w-is-for-withdrawal/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/book-cover.jpgbook coverin 2011 i had a new years resolution to meet all 325 of my facebook friends no matter where they might be. then i wrote a book about it which has been published by tate publishing company. i thought they had a publicity department and maybe they do. or at least they have some gal who sends group email exhorting me (and presumably other tate writers) to get the word out. the reclusive writer j.d. salinger wouldn't have survived this modern age. on the other hand, he was said to have continued to write long after he had decided to not publish. is it literature if you don't have an interaction between a reader and a writer? uh-oh, that sounds like something an english teacher would inquire about.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/ativan.jpgativan2012-12-14T23:03:27+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/11/27/like-not-being-owned/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/la-fi-tn-facebook-copyright-20121126-001.jpgla-fi-tn-facebook-copyright-20121126-001this post has been showing up on a lot of timelines, a declaration that the user claims copyright to the profile's content and that facebook can't "own" the profile. this seems mainly to concern my american and european friends. copyright has become incredibly burdened by the freewheeling internet.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/marks-sex-slave.jpgmark's sex slavei don't presume to know mark personally, but it strikes me that he wouldn't be the sort of dude who could own a woman--or a man for that matter. just a little too geeky. p.s this is NOT a picture of me.2012-12-07T21:55:19+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/11/23/the-unintended-consequence-of-thank-you/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/1122121533.jpg1122121533this is the sort of mess that is now all over my bedroom, bathroom and living room. even my car--empties and cigarettes and wadded up bags from steak n'shake.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/flashdance.jpgflashdancethe 1983 film flashdance tells the tired and somewhat hackneyed story of an eighteen year old welder and exotic dancer who aspires to be a ballerina. this young lady lived in an apartment in an abandoned warehouse. all i need is a dance and welding double and i'm living just like the movie! 2012-11-25T22:45:50+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/11/22/thank-you-for-reading/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/thanksgiving.jpgthanksgivingwe're entering a strange season of excess: thanksgiving an excess of eating, christmas an excess of gift giving and new years an excess of champagne. not that i'm complaining about any of that because they're all good!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/tweet.jpgtweetthis is t!he one day of the year i wish i had a twitter account because i would just say "thank you" which is quite a bit shorter than the 140 characters the medium allowshttps://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/happy-thanksgiving.jpghappy thanksgivingthanksgiving is a november american holiday that commemorates the safety and security of early settlers in massachusetts. it has come to be a holiday of saying thank you for all our blessings but sometimes it is considered a holiday of eating too much turkey, of being with contentious relatives, and the opening bell on christmas shopping.2012-11-23T19:15:49+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/11/15/gravity-settings-on-facebook-accounts-to-change-sun-to-rise-in-the-west/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/walking-on-water.jpgwalking on wateror maybe he's just an ordinary guy who came up with an idea in his harvard dorm room and turned it into a billion nation empire in less than a decade. i could have done it too, but i was using my dorm room for partying, sleeping and playing james taylor on my eight track.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/santa.jpgsantabetter watch out, better not cry!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/beer-supply.jpgbeer supplythe dismal science of economics' first principle is that if there is more demand for any asset (beer, gold, oil) the price of that asset will go up. if there is an increase in the supply of any asset, the price will fall. but get out a six pack and look at this chart and you can figure out the implications without having to shell out tuition money to the university of chicago school of business.2012-11-15T20:49:55+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/11/12/the-only-alternative-is-to-break-up/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/gigli.jpggiglibennifer (ben affleck and jennifer lopez) created the 2003 blockbuster hit gigli. whaaaa. . . ? you didn't see it? the tender love story between a mobster and a lesbian. includes the immortal dialogue about cunnilingus. jennifer: it's turkey time. ben: what? jennifer: gobble gobble. really, bennifer was robbed of an academy award!2012-11-13T02:35:17+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/11/09/facebook-sex-facebook-sex-you-decide/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/cosmo.jpgcosmocosmopolitan magazine was created by helen gurley brown who advised women to sashay out into the world and get it all--money, sex, love, career--AND enjoy it! every month the magazine promises its readers sex tips that will drive a man crazy, how to's on the perfect coif, and how to get ahead in business. i might be fifty two but i don't feel too old for this advice!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/romney.jpgromneyno, no, no! not the presidential election. that's over. here's mitt having a final peanut butter and honey sandwich on air romney. he was vociferous in the battle and gracious in defeat. 2013-11-09T15:19:43+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/11/06/my-staten-island-miracle/2012-11-14T16:46:16+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/10/31/denzel-and-sandy-take-away-my-flight-mojo/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/denzel.jpgdenzeli also watched the trailer for the denzel washington movie "flight" and although denzel is the sexiest man on earth, i wouldn't recommend watching this. even if you're the most placid of flyers or taking so much ambien that you think you're on mars, this preview will make you think twice about anything aeronautical -- but here's the link if you feel like tormenting yourself -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhUrWRV1cxs 2012-11-02T07:42:22+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/10/25/the-angels-and-demons-in-my-bedroom/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/demons.jpgdemonsyou're fat, you're old, you drink too much, you have a social life that is largely conducted on facebook, you're irrelevant, you could die today and nobody would notice so why don't you stay in bed and watch korean soap operas on hulu.com? says the demonhttps://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/angel.jpgangelmy personal angel doesn't actually look like this. maybe yours does. mine always has pretty much the same thing to say every morning which is "get the heck out of bed!" 2012-11-27T05:58:38+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/10/20/even-without-the-red-shoes-theres-nothing-like-it/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/ruby1.jpgrubythursday night i went to a party in winnetka. everybody said "welcome back!" and i think they meant it. i was not actually wearing these shoes, but i felt like i was!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/ruby.jpgrubyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/batgirlcave1.jpgbatgirlcavefor most of my adventures, i carried with me a plush doll of the nineteenth century adventurer and explorer william clark. he has his own facebook page and we are facebook friends. now he resides in the bat girl cave which is very close to where i used to live.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/facebook.jpgfacebooki had 325 friends--from college, from around town, from playing online scrabble, people who like my grandfather's science fiction writing, parents of my kids' friends, and some people i just had no idea why. i wanted to meet them all and figure out if we were "just" facebook friends or something else.2012-11-10T06:59:01+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/10/20/a-guest-blog-about-facebook-depression/2012-10-23T18:33:57+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/10/15/the-third-largest-nation-on-earth-welcomes-its-billionth-citizen-er-user/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/batgirlcave.jpgbatgirlcaveone of my facebook friends that i "visited" last year was william clark, the nineteenth century explorer and officer in the united states army. he's dead, he's a duplicate of sorts to his biographer my facebook friend lanny jones and he's not actually sitting here in my bedroom. i think he would be technically part of that 9.7% but i think he's adorable!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/usa.jpgusathe united states of america has a little more than 300 million users, er, citizens. so think about it--mr. romney or mr. obama will be president to less than half of the people that 28 year old mark zuckerberg rules, er, services. 2012-10-16T23:53:51+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/10/12/homeless-no-more-the-things-i-will-not-take-for-granted/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/mr-clark.jpgmr. clarkthis past weekend i moved into an apartment with facebook friend william clark, pictured here on top of the piano i had had in storage. this morning, the bed was delivered. next week, a rug is coming. my ex maximilian says that i have been "officially without residence" for three months. 2012-10-19T15:14:49+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/10/06/theres-no-place-like-the-marriott-and-my-car/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/grace.jpggracegrace is the granddaughter of my ex-husband. are we nonetheless related? and what should she call me? i'm settling on aunt arlynn but i'm open to suggestions.2012-10-09T14:47:01+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/10/03/no-facebook-friend-left-behind/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/white-wine.jpgwhite wineno secret--i love the white wine. we're having a break up. i am using a drug that is weaning, subtle, strange. i am not a believer in twelve steps because i think we do all need something to get us through the day. https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/jennifer.jpgjenniferjennifer coolidge is the actress who played stifler's mom in american pie. this is sort of what miss x looks like. she would be chill with being identified by name but she wants to protect her husband.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/four-years-ago.jpgfour years agoare you better off than you were four years ago? asked ronald reagan when debating then president jimmy carter. it's a question every voter has to ask. in miss x's case, the answer is decidedly no. she has unemployment benefits, but she would rather have a job. and her drinking--popov vodka mostly--has ramped up. 2012-10-05T16:37:32+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/10/01/we-are-all-that-one-lost-sheep-facebook-friend-331/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/demon-rum.jpgdemon rumcan you name another disease besides alcoholism that's self-diagnosed? miss x considers me an amateur, social drinker. there's people who think of me as off the charts, ship her off to rehab. the horrific thing is the very people who will say "you have a problem" are often the people who are the first to bolt. miss x has had some bolters. i want to get out her address book and say "hey, whassup dude?" because she's brave, smart, funny and needs all friends and family on deck. it is said that when the lions go after the gazelles, the pack separates the weak for slaughter. no, don't do that to her. https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/madame-x.jpgmadame xmiss x looks very much like lana turner from the 1966 movie "madame x" about a mother who sacrifices everything for the welfare of her husband and infant son. miss x told me i could use her name and blog anything about her but i am so enchanted by the movie madame x, which i watched when i was barely an infant, that i like calling my friend "miss x"https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/contract.jpgcontractmiss x is adorable and beautiful and we made a contract that her goal was to walk one half hour before ever having that first drink. i'm a big believer in small goals and big goals. this is a small but manageable goal.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/garmin.jpggarmini have a garmin gps that was purchased for me by a friend who was tired of reading blogposts in which i fretted over having gotten lost. the garmin tells me the exact time i will reach a location. trouble is, i still get lost. i turn at the next street over, i miss the exit, i don't see the turnaround. my garmin talks to me and most of the time. .. . "recalculating! recalculating!"2012-10-03T23:55:54+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/10/01/break-up-sex-with-alcohol-and-a-minor-miracle/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/sisters.jpgsistersi got the car back (and my clothes!) and aimed south to indianapolis to meet the three eastman sisters, two of whom (julie and susan) are my facebook friends. clare (far right) does not have a facebook account. neither does sophie the dog. i have many friends on facebook who are dogs and one car. https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/pacific-gardens.jpgpacific gardensfounded in 1877, the pacific gardens mission in chicago has served homeless and lost souls. i felt like maybe i was lost. really lost. maybe they could help.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/betty.jpgbettybetty ford, the wife of president gerald ford, was very "i don't care who knows" about her struggles with alcohol and drug addiction. she opened the betty ford clinic for people with similar issues. https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/drugs.jpgdrugsif a prescription drug for strep throat had a fifteen percent success rate would the federal drug commission approve it? would you take it? would you give it to your kid?2012-10-03T21:44:05+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/09/29/if-youre-going-to-live-out-of-your-car/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/mr-clarks-new-home.jpgmr. clark's new homehttps://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/home-decorating.jpghome decoratinghttps://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/car-pillow.jpgcar pillow2012-10-03T15:23:27+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/09/25/sharing-is-a-good-thing-but/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/nothing-nice-to-say.jpgnothing nice to saywell, at least i try to! https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/copa.jpgcopai admit to unnatural lust for the diane von furstenberg copa wrap skirt in orchid. datalogix knows this and can even figure out if i purchase it online or offline. and it can also predict what other items i might lust for. but does it know i lust for the white wine? of course. because i put a deposit down on a detox program AND i posted on facebook. https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/white-wine1.jpgwhite winei have a problem with this. when i drink, i sometimes say things i don't mean, do things i later regret, and even lose relationships i value. so i have to say "goodbye" and really, alcohol, it's not you, it's me.2012-10-03T15:16:32+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/09/24/dear-alcohol-we-need-to-talk/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/baby.jpgbabymy biological mother gave me this picture when she met me. alcohol, this was a gal with promise and potential and i want to get that back. https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/provenge2.jpgprovengejustin is actually the first person in tallahassee to get the provenge treatment. it went well, by the way, and he says he feels better. he will get two more treatments. https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/white-wine.jpgwhite wineno question, you've been there for me all through the years. in cans, in crystal glasses, at parties, at bars, and sometimes when no one else wanted to be with me. best friends forever, you must have been thinking, right?https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/facebook-cake.jpgfacebook cakei cancelled all the facebook friend visits outside of tallahassee. my friends were so understanding. i was going to bake a cake with jennifer in tampa and she said "no problem" and made the cake on her own and posted it on my wall. the cake tells the story of my visits to see facebook friends all over the world. thank you jennifer!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/me-very-young.jpgme very youngbonding with my father is an ongoing process. he and my mother placed me for adoption when i was three years old. this is a picture of me and my new mother on the morning i was baptized, a few weeks after the adoption became final. i met my father and mother when i was twenty five years old--using a private detective to track them down.2012-10-04T03:35:39+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/09/19/millie-and-me-although-really-my-friend-lanny-jones-and-millie/2012-09-20T11:33:13+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/09/16/if-you-dont-have-something-nice-to-say/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/freecompliment.jpgfreecomplimentcan i add this to the article? can i tape this to my front door? can i tack this onto the bulletin board at the starbucks? because i think words really affect us. https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/faecbook-cake.jpgfaecbook cakethe cake is like an open book, with one page about facebook and twin laptops--hers and mine. the other page has an airplane flying down to florida to meet jennifer. she sent me the cake as an attachment to a message. buttercream frosting doesn't taste as good when you're trying to lick it off your screen.2012-10-03T14:26:48+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/09/14/when-a-cake-tells-a-story/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/cake2.jpgcakethis cake is a book that i will write about my year and a half of meeting facebook friends. on the left hand page are two computers--mine and jennifer's--joined by facebook. on the right hand page is a plane traveling to florida, where i will meet her. not this trip, maybe, but next one!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/cake1.jpgcakehttps://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/leukocytes2.jpgleukocytesjustin's white blood cells, the fighter leukocytes, will be enhanced in the lab and are being shipped back to tallahassee to be injected back into his body.2012-09-16T14:17:30+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/09/13/white-knights/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/leukocytes1.jpgleukocyteswhite blood cells (leukocytes) are the ruthless knights of our bloodstream. they fight diseases--cancer, strep throat, ebola. without them, we are without defense. tomorrow (friday) my father's white blood cells--with new shields and swords--will be reintroduced to his body.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/provenge1.jpgprovengemy father justin is receiving provenge treatment for cancer. experimental? yes. expensive? try ninety thousand a pop. weird? yeah, they take all your blood out and ship your white blood cells to a lab to be enhanced and reconfigured and then they put those white blood cells back in your body and say "cancer begone!"2012-09-13T15:27:20+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/09/12/provenge-the-white-knights-and-my-friends/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/ron.jpgronron is an air force and marine veteran. he was initially stationed in alaska and we shared stories of our common experiences of the 49th state. he's a firm believer in ufo's because when he was stationed there, he had some experience with them. i was fascinated! so much so that for nearly an hour i forgot that i was supposed to be taking care of justin. no worries, justin was still asleep when i returned to the apartment.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/leukocytes.jpgleukocytesleukocytes, or white blood cells, are the fighter cells and without them we have no immunity to disease. 2012-09-13T01:23:31+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/09/11/first-we-take-all-your-blood-out-of-you/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/provenge.jpgprovengenurses adam and denise are referred to as "vein whisperers" because they can get a needle into the very smallest of veins. over a three hour period, all of justin's blood will circulate through a machine that extracts white blood cells. 2012-09-12T02:42:22+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/09/11/when-im-gone-this-is-where-id-like-to-be/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/bessie.jpgbessiein the old city cemetery in tallahassee, there is the monument to elizabeth budd graham who died in the late nineteenth century. some people believe that she was a witch because the inscribed face of the monument faces west. (please remind my sons joseph and eastman to face my monument to the east so that there's no misunderstanding, although certain ex-husbands and boyfriends may beg to differ). https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/reverse-birthday.jpgreverse birthdaybill got a little confused: a twenty fifth birthday for moi? no, i'm actually fifty two but a gal can remember can't she? i was grateful--and i was happy for his upcoming birthday in october! maybe when friends meet for the first time, they should celebrate the birthdays they have missed! and for bill and i that's a lot of birthdays!2012-09-11T01:17:24+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/09/09/the-absolute-worst-thing-about-meeting-my-facebook-friends/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/pods.jpgpodsno need for an inflight movie!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/founding-fathers.jpgfounding fathersby the time a typical traveler has reached the gate, they've forgotten there ever were founding fathers who were willing to risk their fortunes, their safety and their lives for freedom. can you imagine one of these dudes having somebody grasp their ankles and feel their way up? can you imagine them stripping down for the right to get on a plane to disneyland? can you imagine them standing by while their six year old cries because t.s.a. has to take apart her barbie backpack?2012-10-01T16:38:37+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/09/07/i-dont-want-to-like-mitt-or-barack-with-socialfixer-com-i-dont-have-to/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/seamus.jpgseamusin 1983, with five sons, a wife, some luggage and dog, mitt romney made the decision to put seamus in a dog carrier strapped to to the roof of the car for his 36 hour drive to a family home in ontario. bad political move! and since everybody's seeing seamus' mug on facebook, couldn't we get a better shot of him?https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/barack.jpgbaracki just got this on my page this morning. socialfixer won't get rid of this picture, no matter how handsome he may be, but i've been asked to "like" and for all my friends to "like". https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/michele.jpgmicheleshe's beautiful, she's witty, and i like her. but roughly half my friends are going to have smoke coming out of their ears if one of my friends posts this on my wall. and then there's seamus the romney family dog. on the roof of the family car!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/cake.jpgcakein tampa, i will bake a facebook cake with my facebook friend jennifer. it will be the first time we have met, but i already know i will like her. for real, not just with a click!2012-09-09T18:02:35+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/09/04/invite-me-to-your-sorority-initiation-rites-because-i-sorta-know-the-alphabet/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/taylor.jpgtaylori think my facebook friend taylor jordan (on the left) would consider taylor lufkin (on the right) her best friend! they are both in college--he's going to be a writer, she's going to teach. this is our wonderful future and i'm so happy for these two!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/arlynnglam.jpgarlynnglamme at twenty five. fifteen pounds lighter. damn, if i knew now what i didn't know then, i would have ate more candy, spent my money on pretty dresses and drinks for cute boys, and wouldn't have bothered with therapy, waxing kits or underwire bras. 2012-10-25T21:09:42+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/08/31/anxiety-attacks-america/2012-12-28T09:58:31+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/08/31/leann-rimes-twitter-addiction-and-my-facebook-friend-marty-gerendasy/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/playboy-club.jpgplayboy clubeddie was in the blink and you've missed it series "the playboy club" -- since i'm not going to post pictures of leann in a bikini, you'll just have to be titillated by this picture of eddie and his costar laura benanti.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/homewrecker.jpghomewreckerleann and husband eddie cibrian in happier times. both left their spouses for each other. leann tweets constantly about eddie, eddie's children from his marriage to brandi granville, and about individuals in her fan club. if you tweet a lot does that make you a twit?2012-08-31T19:05:11+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/08/30/the-facebook-lunch-bunch-and-marks-invited/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/lunch-bunch.jpglunch bunchthe first time we met as a quartet of facebook friends, one of our members couldn't leave the house. so we had lunch there. this time, that member picked a place a few blocks outside of the "safe" zone. it was a chili's. it was nice to have lunch and have no worries of being judged, having to make an impression, having to act like--well--like we lived up to our facebook profile picture and our record at gemville or farmvill or mafia wars. https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/cake.jpgcakethis is not what we had for dessert but one of the things i'll be doing in florida is learning to bake a cake. maybe i should send it to mark zuckerberg. he's certainly having a rough time of it -- facebook shares have dropped from their high of $38 to $19. that means he's only a billionaire as opposed to being a gazillionaire. a cake would definitely cheer him up. but maybe it cheers him up to know he's doing great things for people. . . like the lunch bunch!2012-08-30T14:04:40+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/08/28/what-happens-in-vegas-goes-everywhere/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/soldiers.jpgsoldiersthe facebook page has people posting all sorts of fun pictures of themselves giving the "harry salute" https://www.facebook.com/groups/336283586466687/ it's called support prince harry with a naked salute. https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/harry.jpgharrythe pictures have even been published in the sun! but there's some good news. . . .https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/reggie-and-vince.jpgreggie and vincejust before my facebook friend reggie (on the left) was deployed to afghanistan -- after two tours in iraq -- i went with him and vince p. (on the right) to vegas. i will only admit to losing money at the black jack tables and reading an uplifting book in bed by my lonesome by ten every night. i'm sure reggie and vince read uplifting tomes as well. 2012-08-29T02:59:41+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/08/22/its-been-a-great-summer-for-my-friend-mark-zuckerberg/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/house.jpghousemark and priscilla have lived in this home for quite a while. it's big, to be sure, but not quite what you would expect for a gazillionaire. and i respect that the two of them handed out candy at halloween on their own. they're pretty regular, all things considered.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/wedding.jpgweddingmark and his girlfriend priscilla chan married a few days after the ipo in may. contrary to the storyline of "the social network" mark and priscilla were an item beginning even before facebook was started. he'll always know she loves him for himself! and she graduated from medical school this year and is pursuing her own dream of being a pediatrician. what a happy couple! i have no idea where my "save the date" postcard and my invite went. but that engraved toaster i got you at bloomingdale's is on its way!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/dustin-moskovitz.jpgdustin moskovitzdustin moskovitz, one of facebook's cofounders, is selling 7 million shares today, netting him about $9 million. that sounds like a defection, like a friendship issue, like a mark should defriend and block him issue. but it's not. moskovitz still has 126 million shares, or about $2.4 billion in the company. so mark, don' t hit the "defriend" button!2012-08-24T04:13:27+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/08/21/they-never-call-they-never-write/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/toasted-ravioli.jpgtoasted raviolii had been eating st. louis' favorite specialty--fried ravioli--for two days. this dish is not exactly atkins diet material but this and a double i.p.a. is what i'll be asking for when i'm on death row and the warden asks "what's that last meal going to be?"https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/never-calls1.jpgnever callshttps://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/never-calls.jpgnever callsi have a preflight ritual: as soon as i bolt away from the t.s.a. stormtroopers (uh, agents) i head for the bar, order a beer and text both my sons that the plane is about to take off and i love them. one of them almost always texts back "love you too" the other, meh, not so much.2012-08-22T01:40:59+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/08/19/anticipation-anxiety-and-the-positive-guest-blog-from-david-janis/2012-08-22T12:51:34+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/08/18/just-like-laguardia-on-a-friday-afternoon-before-a-holiday-but-without-planes/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/william-clark1.jpgwilliam clarkof course, my facebook friend william clark goes with me for every adventure! he is right there in front of the blue trunk! the real william clark explored the western half of the united states from 1803 to 1806 in what is commonly called the lewis and clark expedition. you can read all about it in William Clark and the Shaping of the West by Landon Y. Jones!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/arm-wrestling.jpgarm wrestlingi had paid an extra thirty dollars for a "premium" seat 7a. unfortunately, united sold that same seat to someone else. the airline implemented its customer empowerment policy and i lost. i was seated in a middle seat between two oversized bins (i mean men). note to united: can i have my thirty dollars back?2012-08-23T14:04:54+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/08/16/im-a-winner-im-a-winner-im-a-winner-of-the-facebook-award-and-you-can-be-too/2012-08-17T12:24:27+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/08/15/you-win-an-argument-on-facebook-youve-already-lost/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/smiley.jpgsmileyand if we have time we post this on every friend's page every day. although after a few weeks it would be annoying, so we'd switch to posting pictures of cute kitties or inspirational sayings. oh, whoops, most of us already do this!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/my-home.jpgmy homemy home is also five bags in the back of my car: one for computer equipment, one for shoes, for clothes, for cosmetics and soaps, and for just every day. and of course there is william clark my facebook friend who is both a stuffed toy and also a nineteenth century adventurer. https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/prayer.jpgprayeri think of myself as a secular person. . . what is it with this? how do you start your day? how do you get your ass out of bed? because if i don't start with this and a list of a lot of gratitudes i'm damn grumpy and then i falter. https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/coffee.jpgcoffeecoffee also helps. if i try to make any decisions in the morning without having three cups, i am doomed. in the https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/couch.jpgcouchthis is not either of my sons. my heart goes out to the mother of this poor man. but every mom should know that she shouldn't look, it will only break her heart, at her progeny's facebook photos.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/cu.jpgcu2012-08-16T11:26:47+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/08/14/its-aural-not-oral-photography/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/aural1.jpgauralcarolyn is hard to see without that life field all around her!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/aural.jpgauralhttps://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/quartet.jpgquartetthe new york lunch bunch--carolyn, azusa, me, and michele. none of us would be friends without the help of facebook. so thank you mark zuckerberg!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/robert1.jpgrobertlaconda verde is a restaurant in manhattan owned by robert de niro. my facebook friend michele persiak has agoraphobia but so wanted to go to this restaurant that she managed to get out of her house, take the staten island ferry and come to the restaurant. mr. de niro no doubt was determined at his morning staff meeting with the waiters and waitresses to obtain the highest standards of new york service. mr. de niro starred in the 1976 movie taxi driver as an angry, depressed, homocidal young new york man. but a taxi driver, not a waiter.2012-08-15T15:02:37+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/08/12/in-order-to-succeed/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/dessert1.jpgdessertthe second most wonderful thing about lunch was dessert! the most wonderful thing was being with friends! after lunch azusa, carolyn and i went to have our auras photographed. michele and anthony went home to staten island. i think michele can do anything she sets her mind to!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/dessert.jpgdessertthe best part of any meal is dessert. this spumoni was diverted to laconda from a ship headed to sudan--the country's yearly allotment of spumoni aid from the united nations was devoured by our party in less than ten minutes!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/robert.jpgrobertthe restaurant is partially owned by robert de niro and i'm sure when he conducted the morning staff meeting he made clear what sort of service he expected from them. mr. de niro played an angry, depressed young man in the 1976 movie taxi driver.2012-08-16T14:36:23+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/08/10/this-is-how-new-yorkers-welcome-a-traveler-to-the-city/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/laconda.jpglacondai think it's the sweetest most adorable endorsement of a restaurant that michele was willing to make major life changes and overcome obstacles in order to go to the restaurant laconda verde 377 greenwich in new york.2012-08-11T10:22:28+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/08/08/i-am-briefly-living-the-supermodel-life-in-new-york/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/stewie.jpgstewiesupermodels are allowed their eccentricities. so if michele wants to bring her pet stewie, i guess i have to say "okay!"https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/alternate-reality.jpgalternate realitya picture of somebody else's guest room and the pool from their website. i haven't found the pool but since i cheated on my diet maybe that's a good thing. i might alarm chic new yorkers if i wore a bikini! and besides, i'm on a mission and shouldn't get distracted.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/picture.jpgpicturehttps://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/bathroom.jpgbathroomthis picture doesn't do justice to the supermodel bathroom which is so slim and compact that only a woman with a nineteen inch waist can brush her teeth without standing in the tub. i am learning to suck in that tummy!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/hotel-st-james.jpghotel st. jamesthe desk clerk raised an eyebrow--i had cheated on my diet in the past few days--and he assigned me the supermodel suite on the twelfth floor. how do i know it's the supermodel suite? one way is that it's on the twelfth floor. and the staff very helpfully shut down the elevators. getting to my room was a great workout! and coming back downstairs to tell them that the magnetized key card didn't work just doubled the fun!2012-08-09T14:18:19+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/08/07/taking-facebook-face-to-face/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/andrea.jpgandreawe became friends in january of this year when andrea reached out to me after hearing about my facebook adventure. maybe you can't see every facebook friend this year, but what if you made a commitment to see two or five or ten? i really hope to make it to austria for more than the four hours i was in the airport waiting to go to dortmund because i would like to meet andrea!2012-08-07T17:57:12+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/08/03/pets-businesses-duplicates-spambots-fakes-sure-but-theyre-my-friends/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/mark-and-tony.jpgmark and tonyof course, my sweetheart mark zuckerberg is hurting too! he's no longer one of the top ten tech billionaires in the world. instead, he has seen his fortune fall from $1.9 billion to a measly $1.2 billion! i still think if we ever meet, he should pick up the check!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/william-clark.jpgwilliam clarkthe explorer william clark, born in 1770 and deceased since 1838, is the 59th friend i visited last year as part of my new year's resolution to meet all my facebook friends. okay, i am not really friends with him--i'm friends with lanny jones, who wrote his biography "william clark and the shaping of the west". i'm also friends with a cat, several dogs, and several "people" whose only interest in our relationship is that they have received free hewlett packard printers or androids and i can too!2012-08-04T12:42:07+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/08/02/seven-words-you-cant-say-on-facebook/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/spy.jpgspymaxwell smart had a cool phone in his shoe in the 1960s series "maxwell smart". . . but you carry surveillance equipment with you all the time. let's face it, your phone allows the government to track your location, your spending habits, your interests, and your habits. smart? yeah, your phone is smart! https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/george-carlin1.jpggeorge carlinon george carlin's 1972 comedic album "class clown" he delivered a monologue about the seven dirty words -- shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits.-- that you can't say on television. the monologue and its presentation on the radio (uncensored) led to the supreme court setting new limits on the federal communications commission.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/george-carlin.jpggeorge carlinhttps://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/drunken-couch.jpgdrunken couchremember when your cousin tagged you in a picture in the album "just another friday night in the hood"? mr. boss man will not click "like" and that's why some states have passed social media protections so that employers are not allowed to ask for passwords. i'm sure they'll figure out that your password is "studly" and they're going to find this anyhow.2012-08-03T13:04:36+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/07/29/tell-the-investment-world-to-zuck-off/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/diamonds.jpgdiamondsmark, you can send me diamonds out of your petty cash drawer! i don't think you're motivated by the money--as you have said, "we don't build services to make money, we make money so we can build better services."https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/mark-and-tony1.jpgmark and tonymark, i believe in you. actually, i believe in the incredible database that you've accumulated which allows companies to target advertising with such precision. which is why i keep seeing ads on my page about how to get rid of wrinkles and belly fat. p.s. thank you and facebook friend tony tyner for the birthday wishes!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/tire.jpgtirein visiting my facebook friends, i have used planes, trains, and automobiles. when you get a flat tire, take it off the car and pour soapy water on it. wherever you see bubbles is where you have a leak! i am working out the details on fixing this thing!2012-07-29T22:28:15+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/07/24/happy-birthday-mr-zuckerberg-says/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/santa1.jpgsantai don't know where eastman sent this package but i figure if santa can keep track of every little child, eastman can certainly find his mom. i just hope santa or a package shows up at the daughters of the american revolution meeting where i've been invited to speak on thursday evening. oh, but i forget that santa won't be available--he's in tahiti!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/mark-and-tony.jpgmark and tonyi even received a birthday greeting from mark zuckerberg, the founder of facebook. he's pictured here with tony tyner, mr. 314, meaning that tony is the 314th facebook friend i have met. https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/santa.jpgsantahow does santa know where you are if you've sold your house? this past month, a new family moved in and i haven't got my bearings. it would be massively worse if santa were to die! but that won't happen because as long as there are children and retail establishments who believe in him he will live!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/farewell-my-queen.jpgfarewell my queenwhen the future queen of france was sent from austria to meet her husband the future louis the xvii, at the border she was required to change her name from maria antonia to marie antoinette and to strip naked and re-dress in clothes provided by the french. she also had to give up her dog and her ladies in waiting. in 1963 when i was adopted, my name was changed from arlynn merrill leiber to lynn melody patrick, i took no clothes with me from my old home, and give up my stuffed kitten. i did not get jewelry and versailles. on the other hand, i didn't get beheaded. go see farewell my queen which is about to come out. after all, it's been nearly three years since a marie antoinette movie has been playing in theaters!2012-07-27T23:27:40+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/07/27/pardon-me-while-i-exit-the-blogosphere/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/me.jpgmei haven't eliminated panic attacks or the powerful desire to shut the door and make the world go away. in fact, today i had to take two ativan and sit in the parking lot of the local hospital so that i could dash into the emergency room if the ativan didn't make it all better. it must have worked because after twenty minutes i was reading the august issue of allure magazine and pondering whether i'm too old for purple mascara. https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/caseys-flyboy.jpgcasey's flyboycasey's flyboy was the first book i ever wrote. it was about an anthropologist in alaska who falls in love with a pilot. the editor who called to say she wanted to buy it asked me how long i had lived in alaska. i confessed i had never even been to the state. thanks to facebook i have been to nome, kotsebue, anchorage and homer, alaska. 2012-07-30T16:52:46+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/07/26/planes-trains-automobiles-but-no-ponies/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/first-road-trips.jpgfirst road tripsi lived in winnetka, illinois and was pretty much terrified to leave home. so my first trips were within illinois or to neighboring states of indiana, michigan, wisconsin, iowa and missouri. i had eight friends in kearney, missouri. still do! each trip i tried to combine meetings and itineraries. https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/little-pony.jpglittle ponyi am a big believer in taking baby steps towards one's goals. in january, i took short day trips in my car to meet my first two dozen facebook friends. i could control stopping, starting, turning back. later, i started with short train and plane trips. i used mexico city as a test case on international travel. i took reggie gholston as a chaperone to meet the 79th facebook friend yoshi maeshiro. i never got to ride a pony to see a friend. https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/alaska1.jpgalaskaon thursday, october 13, 2011 i flew from chicago to anchorage and drove southwest to the tip of the kenai peninsula to meet facebook friend 233 christy russ. we drank elderberry wine and ate fish that came from the harbor. the next morning caught a flight from anchorage to kotzebue and beyond to meet facebook friend 234 ian coglan in nome. i really liked their cemetery and was amazed at how many bars and tanning salons there were. by eight a.m. sunday morning i was back in chicago. the next week i was in south korea. always pack baby wipes. you never know what you'll need them for!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/alaska.jpgalaska2012-07-27T13:02:53+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/07/23/cute-puppies-and-their-cuter-moms/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/linkedin.jpglinkedinone exception, of course, is linkedin because these guys are, like, serious. about their networking. i have a linkedin account but i never use it because i get intimidated. also, there is no reason anybody should want to network with me because i can't even get myself a job, much less find one for someone else!2012-07-23T22:39:44+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/f2fb-the-book/2012-07-23T22:27:19+00:00weekly0.6https://arlynnpresser.com/2012/07/19/i-should-be-what-stays-in-vegas/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/reggie2.jpgreggieeasy enough to send vince p. a thank you note but reggie is being shipped out to afghanistan in two weeks. so for the moment, he doesn't have a fixed address. . . just like me. so instead, i have to say it here: thank you reggie! i asked him what he wanted in care packages and he replied toilet paper and food. lots of food. will do, captain!2012-07-20T15:47:09+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/07/18/facemash-becomes-facebook-becomes-friendship-matchmaking/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/hotornot.jpghotornotyou can play hot or not on facebook, but i think facebook and other social networking sites have a lot more to offer. or maybe i am just worried i'd get a "not"! https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/reggie-and-vince1.jpgreggie and vincei also took these chaperones because reggie (on the left) is being deployed to afghanistan in a few weeks. he will be gone for a year and my "care" packages will include smokes, toilet paper, and food. both vince and reggie are my facebook friends, but they are more than that. they are my buddies.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/mark.jpgmarkmark had a little fun by hacking into the databases for these facebooks and creating "facemash" -- an online game of "hot or not" in which players rated side by side pictures of their classmates. the game attracted 450 players and 22,000 views in the first four hours. mark got into some trouble and was nearly expelled but then he decided that "facemash" had tapped into some primal needs for connection and for looking at cute potentials. facemash didn't ask players to rate pictures of adorable kittens, inspirational thoughts, or team logos--all of which have been or are presently used by some of my facebook friends!2012-07-20T15:48:35+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/07/14/in-the-face-of-such-beauty-get-a-stylist-a-designer-a-mirror-a-screen-or-flee-to-las-vegas/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/glasses.jpgglassessunglasses by stevie boihttps://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/jackie.jpgjackief2fb friend #323 jackie byrdsonghttps://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/reggie-and-vince.jpgreggie and vincemy two chaperones reggie joe and vince p. are my facebook friends.2012-07-15T18:35:53+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/07/13/airplanes-dont-make-nobody-happy/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/sprint.jpgsprinti thought my flight was at two o'clock. so i had a leisurely morning of working out and scoping out tmz.com then i looked at the ticket and figured out that the first flight of the day would arrive in detroit at two o'clock. i needed to be at o'hare at NOON. what a delightful sprint to the airport. followed by a sprint from one terminal to another in detroit's airport! i think i left the coffee maker on!2012-10-16T03:06:32+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/07/11/theres-a-phone-app-for-everything-and-now-theres-one-for-my-friends/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/lunchbunch1.jpglunchbunchyesterday i had lunch with facebook friends bonnie, tony and charles. charles is presently struggling with agoraphobia. and he's promised to test drive the phone app. https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/cowardly-lion.jpgcowardly lionin the 1939 movie the wizard of oz, bert lahr played the cowardly lion, afraid of everything! sometimes i feel like the lion!2012-07-12T23:14:02+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/07/10/the-best-prayer-of-all/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/lunchbunch.jpglunchbunchfacebook friend #315 tony tyner, #71 bonnie bradlee, me and #322 charles henry met at charles' home. we had a lot of fun and next month, charles will pick out a restaurant outside of his safe area and we're going to do this again! oddly, on august ninth i'll be having lunch in a manhattan restaurant with a facebook friend who is housebound in staten island. she has been opening up her boundaries a lot in preparation!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/ericandheather.jpgericandheathereric and heather are married and live with eric's family in rock island. recently, they have experienced an economic reversal: they need a place to live and some work. if you live in or around rock island, illinois, do you have any ideas for them?https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/asian-f.jpgasian fon the third episode of season three of the hit series glee, mike chang's father demands mike be drug tested and drop out of the glee club because he has received an a minus on a test. mike and the other kids referred to the ninety percent grade as an "asian f". one could say i got the asian f, because ten percent of my facebook friends didn't get a visit from me. i was surprised to find out i was friends with spambots, dead people, prison inmates, and some friends who maybe just didn't like me enough to make a facebook friendship a face to face friendship!2012-07-15T04:46:04+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/07/07/speed-bump-all-you-gotta-do-is-jump/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/jump.jpgjumpwe strike west for los angeles and las vegas. i think this is going to be like a combination of three musketeers, driving miss daisie and the hangover. except i don't want to be the dude who loses a tooth!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/yoshi-and-reg.jpgyoshi and regin mexico city, reggie and i met my facebook friend #79 yoshi maeshiro whom i knew because he admires my grandfather fritz leiber, jr.'s science fiction novels. long after i was asleep at the hotel, reggie went out to a samba bar. it was a photo finish getting to the airport for an eight a.m. flight back to the states. reggie was smiling. i wanted him to smile after he had seen brazil!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/reggie1.jpgreggiecaptain reginald gholston was the 32d facebook friend i visited last year. he also chaperoned me on two facebook trips. i was planning to go to brazil with him and last year's facebook friend #57 vince peters.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/tsa.jpgtsain the albany, new york apartment i was told by a t.s.a. agent that she would put her hands on my ankles and feel me up until she "reached resistance". like a good catholic girl, i put my knees together. in the end, she was able to establish that i was wearing a tanga panty and that it had been several weeks since i had brazilianized myself.2012-07-09T18:40:12+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/07/05/the-facebook-nation-travel-policy/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/reggie.jpgreggiefor the most part, i try to have a chaperone when i am traveling to see a facebook friend i've never met before. reggie has twice been my chaperone. without him, i'm sure i'd still be in mexico city at the plaza revolucion eating ice cream and chatting with my facebook friend yoshi maeshiro whom i met on facebook because he is a fan of my grandfather who wrote science fiction novels.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/kate-and-william.jpgkate and williamkate and william, by comparison are of a royal family that rules over the united kingdom, population 62 million. happy anniversary wills and kate!2012-07-06T15:10:13+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/07/03/facebook/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/facebook.jpgfacebook2012-07-05T00:15:29+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/06/30/a-voyage-not-measured-in-miles-but-in-friendship/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/tom.jpgtomhttps://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/friends.jpgfriendsshayleh, jeannie, me and jeannie's boyfriend joe. jeez, he's such a prankster! https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/miles.jpgmilesi was so crying when i saw jeannie's welcome sign! and she's right--a journey is not measured in miles but in friends. . . https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/empty1.jpgemptyit's a little disconcerting after twenty years of living here but i am so happy for the new owners who will fill this house with love, joy, happiness! and i can't wait for wells fargo bank to approve their mortgage!2012-07-02T19:16:21+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/06/27/dont-call-me-homeless-call-me-officially-without-residence/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/victoria.jpgvictoriadoesn't it sound very very downton abbey british to say "officially without residence" -- and now i visit facebook friends. .. . everywhere!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/eastman-at-the-house.jpgEastman at the Housethere is a moment in a young man's life when his mom has to say "wow, you're an adult, i respect you, i rely on you, and i admire you." this past weekend was that moment. especially when he told the radnors h to the n when mr. radnor came into the house on sunday afternoon and said he would purchase the remaining pieces of furniture for twenty dollars but only if we transported all of it into his home. those pieces of furniture are now resting at the winnetka community church rummage sale storage facility. we had our limits.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/deer.jpgdeerfor some native americans, the deer totem is a signal that one is about to experience great change and possibly go on a journey. this deer was in my backyard. i felt sorta bad because i didn't know her name and i didn't have anything except beer, diet coke, and perfume in my refrigerator. such a bad hostess!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/empty.jpgemptythis past weekend, i divested/sold/gaveaway all my possessions except what i can fit in the back of my car. i still wasn't sure the buyers were moving in, but i had to move forward as if i knew they would. i was helped by so many friends--and my son eastman who came home from college to help me. i think he could sell a ketchup popsicle to a lady with white gloves--he's that good at the garage sale wheelin' and dealin'!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/for-sale.jpgfor salemy home in winnetka was on the market for a long time. i am very happy that the new owners have a baby and two dachshunds and they will love this place and make it their home! on the other hand, i've been weepy. it's the place i've raised my two sons!2012-06-28T14:58:15+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/06/24/throwing-everything-out-onto-the-curb-is-what-you-have-to-do-in-the-second-half-of-your-life/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/old-lady.jpgold ladyi intend to die when i'm one hundred and four years old. my much younger lover will be devastated!!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/hilton-hotel-room-b.jpgHilton-Hotel-Room-blast year, i was on the road nearly every week visiting facebook friends around the world. i will be at a hotel on tuesday night and the first thing i'll do is call room service, turn on the television, and be grateful for the experience!2012-06-26T20:29:30+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/06/22/maybe-i-can-get-sex-out-of-this-deal/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/j1.jpgj1wow! does this count as someone interested in the garage sale in which i divest my entire life so i can resume meeting my facebook friends?2012-06-27T12:55:00+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/06/19/five-catholics-one-muslim-a-presbyterian-a-baptist-a-wiccan-a-jew-a-mennonite-and-an-atheist/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/lightening.jpglighteningi'm grateful for prayers and i pray for others as well. but i'm a little curious about my friend who is an atheist. is there going to be a lightening strike?https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/bar-joke.jpgbar jokehttps://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/shoes.jpgshoeslust is one of the seven deadly sins. and this is what i lust for. today i am wondering if the wages of lust for tomato red platform heels with a pert little canvas bow is . . . delayed closing.2012-06-20T17:22:09+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/06/17/the-pursuit-of-happiness/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/fathers.jpgfathersmaybe the founding fathers meant the right to the "pursuit of happiness" to mean that we all have the right to have meaning and purpose in our lives. in any event, on this father's day, many thanks to those dudes!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/cats.jpgcatsthen you've got seventeen cats, you save all the back issues of national geographic and the grocery bags from lakeside foods and your neighbors think you're weird. you die alone and lonely and your body isn't discovered for weeks. the forty seven cats are sent to aspca and some of them are adopted. some of them, not so lucky.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/cat.jpgcata cat or dog is a gateway animal. they're so cute. they need you. sometimes they return affection. then you get another to keep the first one company. . . . https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/northfield.jpgnorthfieldi even wrote a history of northfield, illinois for arcadia publishing company. between permissions and paying the images specialist, i spent close to two thousand dollars. i will never make that money back.2012-06-19T14:14:53+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/06/15/thank-you-mr-zuckerberg-for-my-facebook-new-years-resolution-it-was-an-adventure/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/homeless.jpghomelessi'm happy and really grateful! last year's experience has at least taught me something! when you pack a bag, roll your clothes into a single tube and baby wipes are good for a lot of disasters you will encounter!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/purse.jpgpursei took everything i owned in one bag. never checked anything because i sort of don't trust baggage handlers and airlines. now the bag is in my refrigerator along with diet coke, orangina, perfume, and bottles of beer. i am having a house sale in one week. this is how i roll now!2012-06-16T01:35:36+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/06/12/gratitude-at-the-center-of-the-universe/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/thank-you.jpgthank youi don't have an automatic thank you note generator like the presidents of the united states. but i do write a lot of thank you notes. i don't send them all because some people who are so very good to me would probably get a little creeped out. 2012-06-15T11:14:29+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/06/09/facebook-nations-baby-steps-towards-democracy/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/thumbs-down.jpgthumbs downthree hundred and fifty thousand people voted, just four percent, and overwhelmingly they were opposed to the privacy amendments. the company had said that it would consider the vote binding if more than 30% of its users voted.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/couch.jpgcouchon may 23, 2005 tom cruise declared his love for katie holmes as he trampolined on a couch on the oprah show. i'm sure HE'D like to say he owns that and then he would burn it. tom is known for being very reserved, secretive, almost like a scientologist. oh, right, he IS a scientologist.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/zuckerberg-wedding.jpgzuckerberg weddingprince mark zuckerberg and bride priscilla chan honeymooned in italy just after the much anticipated facebook i.p.o. insta-millionaires were gravely disappointed as the share price opened at $42 and has plunged to $27. but every great nation has initial problems.2012-06-12T13:33:15+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/06/07/this-venus-in-transit/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/venus.jpgvenusthe telescope fell apart within minutes and i advised using a bigger box for the next transit of venus. and more tape. https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/venus-telescope1.jpgvenus telescope1don't look at the sun directly! this friend made her own reflective telescope for the viewing. there were a number of homemade telescopes for this event. 2012-06-08T16:39:53+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/06/05/big-gulp/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/unicorns.jpgunicornswhat do all girls like to write about? romance, adventure, handsome princes, pretty dresses, fancy parties, the crumbling of the european union, and unicorns. one of these things is not actually true.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/big-gulp1.jpgbig gulpwhat if the new yorker wants a diet coke big gulp? what if the new yorker is an underweight supermodel who really needs the calories? what if the new yorker is a constitutional scholar who believes that commerce can't be regulated in this manner?https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/big-gulp.jpgbig gulp2012-06-13T00:16:25+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/06/03/twenty-three-days-before-this-homeless-winnetka-matron-starts-selling-streetwise/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/busch.jpgbuschand what exactly were seventeen of these doing behind the speakers in eastman's bedroom? 2012-06-04T19:30:43+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/05/31/at-least-i-have-a-facebook-job-and-facebook-friends-318-and-319/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/erin.jpgerinerin, who i guess qualifies as my co-worker at round table books, will come to my house to take away all the books of so many years. she house sits for people in winnetka and that means she gets to live for free in some of the finest homes--if you want to housesit in your town, go to your local realtor and ask if there are homes that have been temporarily emptied of their owners. you might find yourself in a beautiful mansion!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/zuckerberg.jpgzuckerbergdon't cry for me, mark zuckerberg! mr. z. has been having some problems of his own even while he's honeymooning in italy! because of the facebook share price plunge, his net worth has gone from an estimated $20 billion to a paltry $14 billion AND he's been dropped from forbes magazine's top forty wealthiest folks list! 2012-06-02T05:55:09+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/05/29/my-facebook-friends-resolution-comes-to-a-grinding-halt/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/gone-with.jpggone withthe 1939 movie gone with the wind concludes as rhett butler says "frankly my dear i don't give a damn" when scarlett o'hara at long last declares her love for him. as he leaves, she is at first heartbroken but then concludes she'll win him back because, after all, "tomorrow is another day!"https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/public-enemy-number-one.jpgpublic-enemy-number-oneit's tough to do an interpretive dance about dental work. or a collage. but this picture pretty much sums up my day.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/tooth-fairy1.jpgtooth fairyi used to give my kids dollar bills for the teeth that they'd leave under their pillows. oh, whoops! joseph and eastman, please disregard this caption! the tooth fairy really exists, along with santa claus, the easter bunny, and the mother's day didyouforget? dragon. . . .https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/tooth-fairy.jpgtooth fairy2012-05-30T17:08:04+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/05/25/not-completely-abnormal-and-the-thirteenth-tooth/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/the-tooth-fairy-picture.jpgThe-Tooth-Fairy-picturedwayne johnson, aka the rock, starred in the 2010 blockbuster "the tooth fairy" along with the dazzling cast including ashley judd, julie andrews, and stephen merchant. it was a poignant commentary on our belief that after the pain of teeth extraction we should get a reward. what i got was a bill for one thousand smackers and an ibuprofen because dr. trina said in a few hours i was definitely going to feel it. https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/tooth-chart-3.giftooth chart 3some reflexologists and traditional medicine professionals believe that the large intestines and the lung meridians of the body affect teeth 4, 5, 12 and 13 of the upper jaw. so a disturbance in the thirteenth tooth could be a warning of lung, intestinal, pituitary, and thymus gland problems! i just thought the side of my face was exploding with pain!2013-10-15T06:05:25+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/05/23/facebook-tanks-and-so-do-i/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/wedding.jpgweddinglast week, mark's fiancee priscilla graduated from medical school, he had a birthday, there was the great day when facebook shares were made available to the public for the first time and, of course, there was the wedding. this week? maybe it's a good idea that mark and priscilla are on their honeymoon. because investors think their honeymoon with facebook is over!2012-05-25T17:38:35+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/05/21/mark-zuckerberg-avoids-transfer-taxes-also-incidentally-gets-married/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/zuckerberg-wedding.jpgzuckerberg weddingthe movie "the social network" makes it sound like mark was a bit of, ahem, loser with women. actually, he and priscilla have been dating for nine years. they've been together during the tough times and the really great times. for my wedding present to the zuckerbergs, i'm going to give them a photo album entitled "my trip to the grand canyon", a link to a leah silberman music video and a weepy status update about why is it that men think they can treat women so bad! 2012-05-23T23:54:17+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/05/19/what-a-busy-day-for-my-facebook-friend-mark-zuckerberg/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/me.jpgmelast year, i made a new years resolution to meet all my facebook friends. i was a scaredy cat who didn't leave the house much and i wanted to know who all these friends were! the resolution changed me. i have to say . . . thank you, mark!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/facebook-ipo.jpgfacebook ipothe facebook shares were initially offered at $38 a share when mark rang the opening bell at nasdaq trading headquarters. after rising and abruptly falling the price of the shares returned to just under $40 per share at the closing bell. does that mean the initial price was just right?https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/winklevoss.jpgwinklevossah, the winklevoss twins! they went to harvard with mark and they thought they were part of the creation of facebook. this was the point of two lawsuits between the twins and mark. as part of a settlement of one of those suits, the winklevoss twins own six million shares of facebook. caution: do not invite this trio to the same potluck supper!2012-05-22T21:41:43+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/05/17/nato-facebook-friends-come-to-chicago-and-i-offer-a-few-pointers-on-how-to-get-along-with-native-midwesterners/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/rahm.jpgrahmmayor emanuel really needs this weekend to go well! everything has been arranged for your comfort and safety as if he were conrad hilton and arnold schwarzenegger in one! as for the comfort and safety of the folks protesting NATO and the status quo, uh, well, not so much!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/nato_protest_615_308.jpgNATO_protest_615_308an interesting note: these people could theoretically be arrested for disturbing the peace and whatnot. as a nato ambassador, you cannot be arrested, detained or held by police unless a waiver is obtained from your home country. diplomatic immunity is da bomb!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/nato.jpgnatoas an ambassador, you might see some people with signs that might not seem to be welcoming. rest assured, midwesterners are a friendly sort. and they make good use of irony. if someone says in conversation or shouts to you that you are a warmonger, a friendly smile and a wave is your best response!2012-05-17T16:04:37+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/05/14/happy-birthday-mark-zuckerberg/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/mark-zuckerberg.jpgmark zuckerbergmark is not even my facebook friend! yet, i wish him a happy birthday! i don't feel too bad about not sending a birthday present because next week is the fabulous facebook IPO -- facebook is valued at nearly 100 billion dollars!2012-05-17T16:13:24+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/05/13/girls-girls-girls-a-brooklyn-ish-strip-club/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/girls.jpggirlsthe hbo series girls tracks some twentysomethings living in the greenpointe neighborhood of brooklyn. they have a lot of bad sex on the show. i hope that life does not imitate art and vice versa.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/shuttle.jpgshuttle2012-05-14T00:24:43+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/05/11/mr-di-niro-can-you-hear-me-f2fb-friend-317-would-love-to-hear-from-you/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/locanda-verde.jpglocanda verdemr. diniro, i'm betting the prices at your restaurant are a bit dear. but i'm sure if you're half as good at cooking as you are at acting, the food's great! michele probably would also like just to shake your hand. to meet you and say "thank you for motivating me to change myself!"https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/shrine.jpgshrinei was insanely honored that michele let me be a "safe" person for the day. we walked to her boyfriend's place of employment (man, he was a little freaked out by that!) and then we pushed the boundaries a little further. we saw a house that had a three foot wide, five foot tall shrine out front. i like it when people of all faiths feel good about presenting their beliefs to the world! https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/stewie.jpgstewiestewie is a caped dragon lizard. she may be very lovely to other caped dragons, but i didn't find her all that attractive. in fact, i got sort of nervous when michele took her out of the cage. after all, who's to say that caped dragon lizards want a little fifty one year old human flesh after a regular diet of crickets?2012-05-19T18:47:35+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/05/10/youre-richer-than-you-think/2012-05-11T00:13:16+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/05/10/panic-at-williamsburg-bridge/2012-05-21T12:29:50+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/05/09/how-to-finally-make-money-off-facebook/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/campbell.jpgcampbelltucked away in a corner of grand central station in manhattan is the campbell apartment, once the hideaway of tycoon john w. campbell. he supposedly gave wild parties here. most commuters and tourists never notice this door. and i got ushered out of the hallway about two seconds after i took this picture. i pretended i didn't understand english and allowed myself to be gently led back out onto the concourse.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/lacoste.jpglacostein addition to seeing new facebook friends, like #316 carolyn quinn on monday, i see facebook friends that i first met last year--like #58 john r. douglas. we were in manhattan, where everything is bigger, faster, louder, taller. . . . i told john this shirt was too big for him! https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/houseproud.jpghouseproudi am in brooklyn visiting facebook friends. the neighborhood i'm in is full of folks who are houseproud. sometimes they decorate their front doors with modern artwork!2012-05-09T21:30:25+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/05/08/sisters-sisters-there-were-never-such-devoted-sisters/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/graveyard-city.jpggraveyard cityone of the trains i took from my brooklyn hotel included a memento mori -- a graveyard city to remind me where my ultimate destination is!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/meandcarolyn.jpgmeandcarolynever since i laid eyes on f2fb friend #316 carolyn quinn, i can't get the rosemary clooney song "sisters" out of my head. download it on itunes. it will stick with you. sisters, sisters there were never such devoted sisters never had to have a chaperone, no sir im here to keep my eye on her caring, sharing every little thing that we are wearing when a certain gentleman arrived from Rome she wore the dress and i stayed home 2012-10-14T13:04:16+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/05/07/am-i-ready-for-new-york/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/mr-clark.jpgmr. clarkmr. clark getting cozy with a teddy bear who was going home to new york with another traveler. i carry my william clark doll in my bag every flight i take and the back seat of my car? looks like a damn toys r' us!2012-05-08T00:29:49+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/05/05/batter-up-aubrey-huff-has-his-days-too/2012-05-09T13:33:12+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/05/03/dr-drew-wed-like-a-house-call-please-oh-no-well-just-take-care-of-it-ourselves/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/on-dr-drew.jpgon dr. drewi don't wear a lot of makeup except mascara and i can out-kardashian anybody on that black stuff. but the makeup/hair lady for dr. drew really shellaced me to get the "natural" look. then she chastised me for touching my face or hair. https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/dr-drew.jpgdr. drewi don't watch a lot of television so when the producer from dr. drew called, i kept visualizing dr. phil who is a protege of oprah. then when dr. drew was described to me, i got him confused with anderson cooper. really, they should have baseball cards for television dudes.2012-10-14T08:48:41+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/05/01/not-that-vixen-press-this-vixen-press/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/vixen-press.jpgvixen presscaryl has printed books for notable authors including the poet laureate robert pinsky. here she is at one of her presses. the tour of the vixen press made me think that about how books have changed from the cuneiform of babylon to the ibook to the hand detailed books she creates.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/vixen.jpgvixenvixen press was founded in 1953 by gil fox and published one hardcover book a month of an, ahem, adult nature. barry devlin was their most prolific writer.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/after-party.jpgafter partycleaning up the next morning, i was a little puzzled as to why there was a random pink wig on the kitchen counter. i had eight house guests. does anybody have something they want to tell me?https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/reading.jpgreadingguests were asked to bring a new or gently used children's book to donate to reach out and read illinois! an unexpected development was that the kids who showed up for the party had something to read!2012-05-01T21:28:01+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/04/30/cheating-at-the-after-party/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/books.jpgbookso.j. and i are also going to make a book that comes in a format in which individual screens (also called "pages") are made out of wood pulp (also known as "paper")2012-05-01T21:43:37+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/04/27/a-party-invitation-for-you-yes-you/2012-04-28T05:20:15+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/04/27/agoraphobics-have-their-own-anthem-now/2012-10-14T13:05:09+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/04/26/versatile-blogger-award/2012-04-27T08:04:01+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/04/26/the-homeless-agoraphobic/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/aleta1.jpgaletai found out several months ago that aleta has a facebook account. i sent her a friendship request and a message telling her that she has two grandsons--joseph and eastman. ixnay. https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/holly.jpghollyholly was the most beautiful foster sister i had. when i was in the same home as she was, peter frampton had just come out with his first album. holly would sit in a rocking chair, smoking cigarettes and listening to that album over and over and over again. . . if i ever see mr. frampton, i will implore him to not sing in my presence. it was just too much frampton, too much "do you feel like i do?" oh, shoot, now i'm not going to get that song out of my head. thanks a lot, holly!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/denise.jpgdenisedenise was one of my foster sisters. we exchanged class pictures and i keep hers--well, all of my foster sisters and one brother who is now a sister--in my safety deposit box. denise later became a police officer!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/mrs-patrick.jpgmrs. patrickmrs. jewell patrick was a beautiful woman who was unable to bear children because of a hysterectomy when she was seventeen. she was quite a disciplinarian, sometimes locking me up in the basement or in a closet for misdeeds. then there was the belt. . . .but i started to be cool with being locked up if i could read a book. i think this is why i'm literate, not the public school system.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/mslynnpatrick_1964.jpgMsLynnPatrick_1964until i was three years old, i lived with my parents justin and aleta. they put up for adoption and the patrick family of western springs took me in. they immediately had me baptized in the methodist faith. this picture was from that happy sunday. my older sister sandra had also adopted by the patrick family. justin and aleta divorced about a year afterwards. i wasn't reunited with them until i was twenty five. 2012-05-25T20:10:15+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/04/24/the-sweetest-smelling-homeless-person-in-america/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/angel1.jpgangelafter we sorted out the details, my ex and i were wrung out. this is a house with so many memories. i don't know--will the smell of angel perfume ever really get out of the house? maybe it will linger.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/angel.jpgangelhttps://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/arlynnfeb2011_16.jpgArlynnFeb2011_16every year, stephen and i gave a boxing day party. december 26th, hosting as many as a hundred people. here i am at one of those parties!2012-04-27T08:03:34+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/04/20/its-de-lightful-its-delicious-its-de-lovely/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/cupcake.jpgcupcakei don't know why i'm all panicky about my weight but after the party this cupcake is going to be . . . DE-LICIOUS!!!!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/howard-lovely.jpghoward lovelythe two books, both by wayne dyer, express a positive message for children. okay, i'm going to say it -- howard lovely, YOU'RE DE-LOVELY! https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/tony-tyner.jpgtony tynerit was delightful AND delicious to have lunch with tony in geneva! turns out we have a lot in common in our childhoods. . . . tony is a single dad raising three children. i admire how he's endured tough times and come out with a cheerful countenance!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/anything-goes.jpganything goesalthough it wasn't part of the original 1934 production of anything goes, and wasn't added to the show until the 1962 revival, the song "it's de-lovely" best expresses the delightful, delicious, yes, de-lovely feeling of being in love. i've been singing that song all week but not about love. i've been singing it about friendship! 2012-04-22T20:41:47+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/04/19/uh-oh-some-stupid-risks-i-take-and-that-phone-app/2012-04-23T18:15:37+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/04/08/a-facebook-matchmaker-experiene-a-return-to-detroit/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/meandparis.jpgmeandparisbrenda's granddaughter paris is adorable and i love holding her and spending time with her! she is a great comfort to brenda!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/better-burn-house-pic.jpgBetter Burn House Picthe city is implementing a program where there are "zones" where city services will continue to be offered and residents of detroit are encouraged to move into those zones or to face life with only their own resources. some corporations are purchasing land outside of the zones with an eye towards developing farms, industrial parks, etc. but what about brenda, who definitely doesn't want to move? what to do with the land that includes what is for her the sacred place of her daughter's spirit? well, it got me thinking. . . about the christmas box angel memorial i visited with f2fb friend #310 julia kovach. . . https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/shrine.jpgshrineacross from brenda's home is a vacant lot, not an unusual circumstance in her neighborhood. she has created a shrine to her daughter raven, who was abducted while playing there when she was six years old. three days later, the amber alert went into effect and raven's body was found. brenda has a pretty good idea of who murdered her daughter although no arrests have been made. i brought three baby duck statuaries and a mommy duck to the shrine to represent brenda's family. the city of detroit owns the lot and is willing to sell it to brenda for four hundred dollars. 2012-04-19T19:30:16+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/04/18/an-anonymous-agoraphobic-and-a-question-for-you/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/cell.jpgcellmany people with anxiety and agoraphobia rely on facebook, email and cell phones to keep up with family and friends. one facebook friend who is housebound calls her mother at work. her mother leaves her cell phone on and lets her daughter "be" with her during her work day. my facebook friend calls it "having mom let me be in her pocket". . . https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/vanessa.jpgvanessavanessa williams just released the book "you have no idea" and it reveals that she was molested as a ten year old by an eighteen year old woman, that she was "highly sexualized" as a teen, that she had an abortion when she was nineteen, and that she trusted a photographer who wanted to do some "art" shots of her. by her own description, she went from the cab to naked with a dog collar in less than an hour. those pictures were printed in penthouse and caused her resignation as 1983 miss america. she's bounced back. but there's a lot of 'fessing up she's doing with this book.2012-04-20T11:17:22+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/04/16/the-pre-forgotten-mothers-day/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/aleta.jpgaletamy mother loves animals and lives in washington, d.c. and, like me, she trained as a lawyer. when i sent her a friendship request, my account was suspended for fourteen days because facebook freezes an account if someone you send a friendship request to claims that they don't know who you are.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/mothersday21011.jpgmothersday21011oh, the irony! i get so darned upset if the boys forget mother's day and here i have . . . forgotten what day is mother's day! https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/happy-mothers-day.jpghappy mother's daymother's day is huge! it was originally intended in the 1800s as a pacifist holiday and was nationally recognized in 1914. father's day wasn't recognized officially until the nixon administration. i actually am old enough to remember nixon. argh!2012-04-17T16:08:13+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/04/14/facebook-google-can-they-coexist/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/napster.jpgnapsterwait, does this mean that fortunes can be won, lost, and won again in this business? https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/me.jpgmei'd like to be a browser tool but maybe i'm too old. after all, fifty one is rather ancient. https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/mark1.jpgmarkmark, mr. dreamy, made this possible. however, i am not stalking him. so no temporary restraining orders please! however, i think he has to watch out for google. specifically google chrome. . . it's pretty, it's catchy, and it isn't mark's friend.2012-04-15T14:22:16+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/04/13/thank-you-mark-zuckerberg/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/mark.jpgmarkisn't he dreamy? and so thoughtful of him to give me a present when i really could use one! this week has been one of major setbacks and i was feeling alone and lonely and very sad. i feel so cherished by mark. but funny thing about his email address!2012-04-15T18:32:25+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/04/10/the-tax-code-explained-just-in-time-for-april-15/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/taxes.jpgtaxesget out your calculators! figuring out your taxes is fun and easy! oh, and i'm lying about that. 2012-04-27T08:01:09+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/04/08/on-love-change-and-that-pesky-habit-of-falling-in-love-with-someone-and-then-wanting-to-change-them/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/meandsara2.jpgmeandsarahttps://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/meandsara1.jpgmeandsarai also probably wouldn't get to meet her without facebook because frankly, sara is cool. she is what i wish i had been when i was twenty two--beautiful, honest, forthright and smart as hell. maybe if i dye my hair pink i have a shot at being a cool fifty one year old. 2012-04-15T14:23:56+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/04/05/nobody-except-my-f2fb-friend-312-lies-about-their-age-on-facebook/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/meandmarguerite.jpgmeandmargueritehere i am with marguerite and her granddaughter gail marlow (f2fb friend #109). the last time i saw gail was last year as part of this project. she owned a nightclub in cincinnati. that evening, i met a wonderful young male dancer who explained he was only doing it to put himself through medical school. i also got a jello shot licked off my chest. really, maybe i should shut up!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/no-pic.jpgno pici was put up for adoption when i was three years old. i tracked down my biological parents when i was twenty five using a private detective--this is b.f. before facebook which has definitely made it easier to locate missing relatives. a few years after we met, my mother aleta decided she didn't want anything to do with me. i tracked her down on facebook and sent a friendship request two months ago. as it stands now, even if she hit "confirm" we might not be able to be friends because i have 5000 friends. i guess there's a good reason for the policy but i sure hope if my mom decides to be my friend that mark zuckerberg will allow that!2012-04-07T05:10:45+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/04/04/a-christmas-box-angel-and-a-little-facebook-matchmaking/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/arlynn.jpgarlynnjulia is very artistic and she made this tiny little picture just for me. . . or for someone else named arlynn and i just swiped it off her kitchen counter. the picture sits next to my gamin gps. i am really really blessed in friendship. https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/richard-thomas.jpgrichard thomasin 1995 the christmas box was made into a movie with maureen o'hara and richard thomas. when i was a kid, i had such a crush on this guy. he played john boy on the waltons. if he's reading this blog, please richard my love is true!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/blakeandme.jpgblakeandmei slid into coldwater michigan and spent some time with f2fb friend #310 blake parshall. his mother molly is a facebook friend who has trouble leaving the house. she was having a bad day but blake and i made the most of things. please don't tell the michigan state police, but i let him sit on my lap in the driver's side seat of my car and we did a three point turn at the end of sheridan road. do blake and i look really guilty about this violation of motor vehicle regulations?2012-04-04T15:45:23+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/04/03/all-you-need-is-one-book-a-party-invitation-for-you/2012-04-04T02:28:20+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/04/01/who-doesnt-get-motivated-by-a-new-dress/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/colleen.jpgcolleencolleen is a facebook friend who sometimes has trouble with driving by herself. she set up a system after my visit this winter so that every time she faced that fear she put ten dollars towards a dress she and i had admired in taylorville's best dress shop. this is her birthday picture and she's wearing the dress. .. can i get an amen that she looks gorgeous??? and like she said, "who doesn't get motivated by a new dress?"2012-04-03T02:57:37+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/03/29/are-you-crazy-youre-going-to-get-yourself-killed-out-there/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/ruffner.jpgruffneri have two sons and so does martin. he has been following my blog and my story in part because he identifies. . . he has been through a rough patch but he has found comfort and strength in his family and friends--some of whom are on facebook!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/post-office.jpgpost officethe post office? telegraph? carrier pigeons? semaphores? what are we thinking about??? any of these things could be dangerous for marriages, families, our very lives because they foster communication! https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/img00081-20111205-08472.jpgIMG00081-20111205-0847one facebook friend, who was mutual friends with a girlfriend of mine, kept insisting that we should meet at my house and that he would be such a gentleman as to bring a bottle of wine. for a full year we went back and forth on this issue, and i would always decline. or we would make arrangements to meet in a public place and he would cancel at the last minute. finally, one day i relented and said "sure, come on over" he was on his way! and when he called to say he was ten minutes away, i reminded him that i had houseguests--pictured here--zeeb and beth feywood. the facebook friend never showed up. he's part of the ten percent i never got to meet!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/img00081-20111205-08471.jpgIMG00081-20111205-0847https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/img00081-20111205-0847.jpgIMG00081-20111205-0847https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/catherine-barnes-665639422.jpgcatherine-barnes-665639422catherine barnes, 32, of ohio traveled by herself to wales to meet some facebook friends for the first time. she disappeared in january and her frantic family spent many a night believing she might met an awful fate. the swansea police located her in february. what a relief!2012-04-05T11:24:19+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/03/29/a-face-to-facebook-invitation/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/fritznme.jpgfritznme2012-04-01T12:39:23+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/03/26/i-get-a-facebook-friendship-challenge-with-a-phone-call-to-follow/2012-04-05T11:27:44+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/03/25/damn-mark-zuckerberg-finally-emails-me-and-ive-won-a-prize/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/ring.jpgringi've been totally in love with this ring designed by alexis bittar's haversham collection. it's only two hundred smackers and i think i could afford it if this email is valid. 2012-03-27T01:51:50+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/03/24/facebook-gives-me-several-unexpected-children-and-a-new-job-plus-why-you-should-be-friends-with-james-michener/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/michener.jpegmichenersadly, the american author of over forty novels died in 1997. but he still has a facebook page!!!!!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/round-table-books.jpground table booksround table books at 572-b lincoln avenue in winnetka is listed as my employer. i think this happened because one of their people was playing around with facebook and thought it might be fun to include me! i'm flattered. where's my check and when do i have to come to work?https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/gay-marriage.jpggay marriagegay marriage is a contentious issue in america. maybe we should bear in mind that on facebook, you can get married to anybody you want to. i understand it's the fashion amongst my teenaged facebook girlfriends to announce that they are married to a sibling or to their very best girlfriend. in this way, they communicate not that they're really married but that they are available to date.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/chef.jpgchefit WOULD be a medical miracle if i had another child. after all, i'm fifty one and i don't have a husband. on the other hand, if there's anything the last year has taught me, it's that you can do anything you set your mind to! https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/justin.jpgjustinthere was, of course, justin my father, who cut short his visit to winnetka the day before yesterday. my pajama day may have been because i felt rejected but it could also have been a migraine. either way, i resisted the urge to pop open the vino although i couldn't resist hulu.com episodes of peep show!2014-12-10T14:02:22+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/03/23/a-puzzling-end-to-a-facebook-friends-visit-and-i-revisit-the-lexapro-issue/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/lexapro.jpglexaproi have a prescription for lexapro which is sitting unopened on my kitchen counter. i really don't want to do this but some doctors believe anxiety disorder and agoraphobia are only controllable with antidepressants. including mine.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/white-wine.jpgwhite winefeeling rejected is a good excuse for a pajama day. which includes pajamas, self-loathing, television, domino's pizza and wine. this time i left out the pizza and wine. https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/migraine.jpgmigrainefor those of you who don't know what a migraine feels like, imagine this cute blue dude having some fun with hammer, nails and your brain.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/tony1.jpgtonywhat a wonderful afternoon get together! thank you f2fb friend #307 tony adams with my father justin 2012-03-27T23:29:36+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/03/20/attention-all-bloggers-you-want-to-know-my-friend-oj/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/oj1.jpgojin honor of oj's presence, justin cooked chicken l'orange. he roasted some chicken pieces in olive oil. took the chicken out and set it aside. put a can of orange concentrate into the pan, with a little paprika for color. stir gently. put the chicken back in. serve with rice. modestly accept praise.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/orange-juice.jpgorange juicein honor of oj's presence, justin cooked chicken l'orange. he roasted some chicken pieces in olive oil. took the chicken out and set it aside. put a can of orange concentrate into the pan, with a little paprika for color. stir gently. put the chicken back in. serve with rice. modestly accept praise.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/oj-simpson.jpgOJ Simpsonnot this oj! well, do what you want but this oj is not, as it happens, my facebook friend.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/oj.jpgoj2012-03-24T13:26:08+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/03/19/i-meet-facebook-friend-305-and-get-out-of-my-pajamas-finally/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/desktop.jpgdesktopwhite wine gets me drunk fast and hard and not in a good way. in fact, my new years resolution has been to avoid it. the triggers that make me want to drink it are rejection, self-loathing, isolation, and depression. white wine, we can't be in a relationship together--it's not you, it's me.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/mark.jpgmarkmark invented facebook and while he is a billionaire he doesn't really live the life of one, at least so far. i am very impressed by his quote "we do not give better service in order to make money. we make money in order to give better service." i think it would have made an EVEN more interesting dinner party if ron o'neal had invited mark. but maybe mark was busy.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/tony.jpgtonylast year, i needed to visit 325 facebook friends as part of my new years resolution. tony morris is one of my friends, and i was quite stalkerish about sending him messages which he never responded to. friday, we saw each other. he's the sort who has created a facebook page and then never uses it. i've noticed some people spend an evening creating a profile and then are like uh, i don't really want to do this. okay, we finally got together--thank you mr. #305!2012-03-22T18:11:57+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/03/18/and-the-winners-are/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/hug-award11.png2012-03-19T14:13:12+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/03/16/the-four-day-pajama-marathon-comes-to-an-end/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/lexapro.pnglexaprolast year, i faced down a lot of my phobias as part of my resolution to visit all 325 facebook friends--i couldn't even imagine getting on a plane before last year and i think i logged 51 flights altogether. so this is just a temporary backsliding. this is a get back up on that horse and ride moment!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/heironymous-bosch.jpgheironymous boschthe painter hieronymous bosch 1450-1516 painted the garden of earthly delights to represent the chaotic, confusing, overwhelming nature of the universe. well, that is sort of how winnetka looked like to me this week!2012-04-01T18:05:48+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/03/14/the-most-insanely-beautiful-make-my-day-present/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/aapicnik-collage23.jpgAAPicnik collage23my facebook friends blake and molly made a collage that is the greatest "make my day" gift . . . i am so happy for them both!2012-03-15T19:31:37+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/03/13/mama-said-thered-be-days-like-these/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/alaska.jpgalaskalast year, i flew to anchorage on a thursday, rented a car and drove five hours south to homer, had dinner with a facebook friend, drove back to anchorage, flew up to nome, spent time with a facebook friend, flew back to anchorage and then onto chicago in time for sunday dinner. today, a trip to the grand grocery store four blocks away sounds too daunting.2012-03-15T19:38:11+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/03/10/le-roy-mystery-illness-sweeps-through-the-internet-and-maybe-im-a-carrier/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/erin-brockovich.jpgErin-Brockovichthe adorable and pneumatic erin brockovich is an environmentalist once portrayed by julia roberts in an eponymous movie. she is trying to figure out if the leroy troubles are related to an environmental spill which occurred near the town in 1970.2012-03-13T00:21:06+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/03/09/am-i-a-person-an-interest-a-hobby-a-hobbit-a-barbie-or-a-friend/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/travel.jpgtravelmy car is fixed so i can travel. i have a full backseat. at five o'clock i sort of had to fish or cut bait on seeing tracy lynn and i had the usual plethora of excuses for weaseling out and staying home. . . . so was tracy lynn!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/barbie.jpgbarbiei'd rather be an action figure but i'll settle for being a barbie doll. i find this really confusing. . . . https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/interest.pnginterestthis is my profile picture as ArLynn Leiber Presser interest. i can "like" this page but i can't post on this page. i am completely clueless as to what this means. . . . can i be somebody's hobby? 2012-03-28T03:11:53+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/03/07/the-most-beautiful-present-from-a-facebook-friend-and-angels-make-their-intentions-known/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/brendabike.jpgbrendabikea lot of people who have agoraphobia feel comfortable outside so long as they are with a "safe" person. my two safe people are my sons and brenda feels safe with her children. tim and brenda are going bike riding. i'm so happy for them. if you're in detroit and you see her tooling around on this bike, wave to her!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/geico.jpggeicoas angels so often take many forms, it is possible that the archangel gabriel, or some sort of messenger, has taken the form of a slow moving geico insurance claims system and a really slow safelight glass repair shop. because my son joseph has been saying "you need to stop traveling and sit down and start writing a book about what you did last year." maybe the only way it can happen is if my car is disabled and my airplane slush fund emptied.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/bats.jpgbatslast night, as i drifted to sleep, i believed that the angel gabriel and a few others had come to fly over my head. nope, it was bats, i think three of them, i was pretty hysterical at the time. swiping the air with a broom didn't intimidate them and crying left them unmoved.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/gabriel.jpggabrielin the christian, muslim and jewish traditions, the archangel gabriel is often responsible for relaying messages to mortals, such as when gabriel told mary that she would bear a child and his name would be emmanuel. i think gabriel has been appearing in my forms and i think he's saying "hey, just take it easy for a bit"2012-03-13T19:05:33+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/03/06/home-for-the-holidays/2012-03-09T01:39:44+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/03/03/the-star-the-sun-the-enquirer/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/enquirer1.jpgenquirerdon gentile writes human interest stories. he doesn't usually dig for dirt, which means he knows nothing about that sex tape with ryan goslin or that i gave demi all that red bull. shhhh! this is just between you and me!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/enquirer.jpgenquirerthe national enquirer was founded in 1926 and has a circulation of approximately 650,000 readers. this is not this week's cover.2012-03-06T00:45:41+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/03/01/a-year-of-wonders-thanks-to-mr-zuckerberg-or-should-i-say-big-z/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/bigchair.jpgbigchairleap day is always a year of wonders. in this particular town, all the furniture suddenly grew tenfold. by tomorrow morning, this chair will be a normal size. am i wrong or does this chair make my hips look smaller?https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/stand-in-the-corner.jpgstand in the corneri was given a seven day "hold" on making any new friendship requests to people i didn't know. but i wasn't making any friendship requests! however, when someone's putting you in the corner they generally are not going to listen to your protests.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/anto.jpgantoi never would have imagined i would go to mumbai--and yet, here i am with facebook friend #244 anto prashanth in front of the shrine to the God of cab drivers. Anto is my facebook friend because he worked at an outsourcing company i worked with. we had only communicated via email and facebook. https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/joekral.jpgjoekralin keeping track of my progress last year, i listed the facebook friends i met with by number. joe kral, facebook friend #250 held a dog party for me. i'm not sure mark zuckerberg intended to have dogs as facebook users. i have quite a few dogs and one cat (nipper castino, facebook friend #95) but i guess the point is that ANYBODY and ANYTHING can have a facebook account!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/mark-z.jpgmark zfacebook was created in 2004 by mark zuckerberg, who originally called it thefacebook and was limited to harvard students. later, mark dropped "the" and allowed college and high school students to join. in 2006, ordinary folks like me could open an account. and i did!2012-03-04T01:18:03+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/02/28/aim-high-and-dont-forget-st-pauls-advice-about-personal-grooming/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/goldie-hawn.jpggoldie hawni know what you're thinking--that i didn't actually see janet and that i googled "goldie hawn" and have slapped her picture up on this blog. no, this is actually janet. she's gorgeous!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/anguish1.jpganguishUH OH! what have i done??? most years, i resolve to lose five pounds and give up drinking--and that lasts until twelfth night when i go on a white wine and chocolate bender. and nobody even knows about my failure!2012-03-05T18:23:18+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/02/25/the-unbearable-is-borne-with-such-grace/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/brenda3.jpgbrendahttps://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/brenda2.jpgbrendabrenda, who bears the unbearable with such grace, has often sent me messages of encouragement or of support and i wonder where she has the energy and the stamina to care so much for others!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/raven3.jpgravenhttps://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/raven2.jpgravenhttps://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/brenda1.jpgbrendamy f2fb friend #301 brenda jeffries bears the unbearable with such gracehttps://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/brenda.jpgbrendabrenda my friend who bears the unbearable with such grace.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/raven1.jpgravenat first, i thought she meant that her daughter lived in the quirky little camper surrounded by tiny stone angels and flowers. https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/raven.jpgravenat first i thought she meant that her daughter raven lived in the little quirky camper surrounded by little statues of angels and flowers and flowers.2013-01-15T12:30:57+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/02/25/for-every-facebook-friend-who-has-never-seen-snow/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/car.jpgcari was really really surprised by what i found in detroit but this is before that. i am grateful to my facebook friend for seeing me.2012-02-29T08:11:44+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/02/23/sometimes-its-a-strategic-retreat-not-a-full-scale-sprint-to-safety/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/scooters.jpgscootersi enjoyed the image of oberlin citizens of a certain age getting out their hog scooters and terrorizing the neighborhood!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/chorus.jpgchorusa chorus of voices in my head, each having their own lines--you're a bad mom, you're a failure as a writer, you have squandered your youth, you will never find happiness, you are going to die alone and broke, you gained ten pounds and look disgusting. . . . 2012-02-29T15:42:44+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/02/22/checking-in-with-a-facebook-friend/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/molllyandjeff.jpgmolllyandjeffafter we got back from the train station we three walked down to the river in back of their house. i can't wait for the day when molly and jeff visit me in chicago!2012-02-28T23:08:36+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/02/20/my-facebook-account-is-frozen-and-the-one-facebook-friend-id-really-like-to-have/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/aleta.jpgaletabefore facebook, it was pretty tough to track down someone with whom you were estranged. i used a private detective to track down my parents when i was twenty five. i continue to have a relationship with my father justin. i haven't seen my mother since my older son joseph was born twenty three years ago.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/no-profile-picture1.jpgno profile picturei sent a friendship request to my mother, who is now on facebook. i told her that she has two grandsons who would like to know her. she has not confirmed me. i don't think she ever will.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/dankingery.jpgdankingeryf2fb friend #299 dan kingery has worked for the community house since the pleistocene era. he has been my friend since i moved to winnetka twenty years ago. 2012-09-28T12:36:08+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/02/17/am-i-a-lying-manipulative-bitch/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/lionel1.jpglionelcolleen uses a picture of the singer lionel richie as her profile picture. it's a family joke about one christmas when mom put up pictures of all the relatives and added "uncle richie' a favorite singer to the collection. i would not have been completely surprised had a tall black man in pastel attire had showed up at bill's and serenaded me "all night long". . . https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/colleenandfriend.jpgcolleenandfriendwhile we were at the little luxuries store, we met the owner colleen's friend laura bruns long. it was a nice reunion!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/medicine.jpgmedicinein the nineteenth century, over the counter medications often contained alcohol, cocaine, or opium and people trusted that whever they were buying was "safe". colleen's grandmother probably had no idea what was in the medicine she gave her granddaughter.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/bigburger.jpgbigburgeri can totally relate to being nervous about eating in public. but i plowed through a "regular" sized burger, some fried cheese balls and onion rings. oh, and a medium diet pepsi. jeez, they sell a "large" triple burger that is as tall as the pepsi. for under six dollars.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/billstoastieshop.jpgbill'stoastieshopbill's toasty shop has a facebook profile under the name "bill's toasties". . . . the menu features fried cheese, fried pickles, fried broccoli and cheese, fried . . . oh, you get the idea!2013-04-19T18:58:58+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/02/16/my-drinking-is-under-control-its-the-technology/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/phone-booth.jpgphone boothbefore cell phones there were phone booths where clark kent would change into his superman togs and teenagers would breathe heavily into mouthpieces. today, abandoned phone booths are used by old men who duck into them in order to fart. it is an acknowledged wisdom born of age which says a man, unlike a child, should never run away from his farts.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/lionel.jpglioneli'm figuring colleen doesn't look like this exactly, but i could be wrong. . . 2012-03-01T19:51:13+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/02/15/an-agoraphobic-only-has-one-panic-attack/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/annie-hall.jpgannie hallmy attire that day did not reflect anything about my gender identification. the 1997 movie "annie hall" starring woody allen and diane keaton influenced my fashion sense. so did the prices at the salvation army thrift shop where i bought my clothes.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/dd.jpgDDi felt really depressed on valentine's day because i thought my younger son eastman (f2fb friend #1) had forgotten about me. then the fedex guy showed up with a mushy card from eastman. this is a valentine's card i received from one of my newest facebook friends talib who is from iraq where valentine's day is not generally celebrated. i appreciated the beauty of this card and the effort that went into making it!2012-02-28T02:02:24+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/02/13/eight-pounds-four-daughters-three-sons-and-many-friends-what-facebook-gave-me-this-year-for-valentines-day/2013-02-06T13:49:42+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/02/11/travel-tips-from-an-agoraphobic/2012-02-28T04:32:13+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/02/09/so-this-is-taking-the-unfriending-thing-a-little-too-far-a-story-about-murder/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/white-wine.jpgwhite winei think if you read my blog often enough or if you know me personally, you know i have trouble with the grape. if i feel rejected, dejected, depressed, compressed, i'll reach for that white wine. i was really surprised i was able to resist. although i spent the entire next day in bed and got myself nice and sick.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/religions.jpgreligionsi try to be real careful about how i blog about people's religious beliefs. and i try to keep an open mind in real life. on the other hand, i have a tendency to make fun of EVERYTHING! and i didn't really think of yoga as a religion.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/marvin-potter.jpgmarvin pottermarvin potter and jamie curd in court. if they use the defense of "justifiable homicide" i think i have to review everybody i've ever unfriended. including that creepy guy who kept sending me pictures of himself. like, those kind of pictures of himself.2012-02-11T02:13:51+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/02/08/deactivating-the-time-out-from-facebook/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/no-profile-picture.jpgno profile picturepeople cannot find you on facebook and your skin and hair turns ghostly white. you don't have eyes or a nose or a mouth. and you have a cowlick. it's spooky!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/img00122-20120125-0844.jpgIMG00122-20120125-0844https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/anguish.jpganguishno facebook? no cell phone? no twitter? argh!!!!!!!!!2012-02-12T15:26:49+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/02/07/its-time-for-me-to-willie-nelson/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/lionel-richie.jpglionel richiethis is the profile picture of the friend i will see next thursday. i see a resemblance to lionel richie. anyone?https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/timetodrive.jpgtimetodrivei have been lazy enough. well, not so lazy, but not so much on the road. last year's resolution was to meet every one of my 325 facebook friends. i now have more friends and 2012-11-12T20:45:59+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/for-those-who-like-to-start-at-the-beginning/2014-12-21T00:51:08+00:00weekly0.6https://arlynnpresser.com/2012/02/03/add-a-few-new-members-to-the-1-club-and-make-sure-to-log-out-every-once-in-a-while/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/mark.jpgmarkmark zuckerberg needs a fly haircut and some new clothes but i guess with his money he'll be able to do all that. https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/winklevoss.jpgwinklevossthe winklevoss twins were mark's classmates at harvard and they had some ideas they shared with him that could be considered the facebook concept. uh, that's about as much as my lawyer said i could say. go rent the movie "the social network" or "mean girls" if you want to get a better idea of the whole story. really, either movie would work.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/one-percent.jpgone percenta lot of the fire in the occupy movement centers around the 1% of americans who make a whole lot of dough but--according to occupiers--don't pay their fair share of taxes. there will be many new millionaires created by facebook's offering, people who either work for the company or were early investors.2012-02-03T23:07:36+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/02/03/aim-high-in-this-case-52-stories/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/courage.jpgcouragehttps://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/top-of-the-hub.jpgtop of the hubangela, mary, me, and lisa! we could have a sitcom together!2012-02-29T01:21:18+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/02/02/yogini-for-a-day/2012-02-10T01:24:13+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/01/30/thomas-hobbes-or-calvin-and-hobbes-i-make-it-to-boston-for-a-surprise/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/hobbes.jpghobbesthomas hobbes was a seventeenth century english philosopher who thought people had not one bit of love for one another. this is not a picture of thomas hobbes, but rather of the cartoon character from calvin and hobbes.2012-07-12T01:02:24+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/01/28/on-wednesday-mark-zuckerberg-will-send-us-a-nice-thank-you-note/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/molly-and-me1.jpgmolly and memolly is a beautiful talented and very witty agoraphobic. we made up a program using small steps to get her out of the house. then i drove home to chicago.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/florida.jpgfloridalast year, in florida, i took off my sandals and swung on a tire. i didn't know that the grass had been spread with fertilizer. when i went to the airport, i was put in a bulletproof glass cage by tsa. fertilizer combined with other materials can be a component part in a bomb. i'm not a terrorist, really, i just look like one.2012-01-30T12:50:51+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/01/27/facebook-friendship-fear-and-the-power-of-index-cards/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/molly-and-me.jpgmolly and memolly and i said goodbye and i promised i'd be back. she countered by saying maybe she should come to chicago. that made me so happy!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/parshall-home.jpgparshall homethis is a terrible picture of her house taken on a rainy, gray day. the parshalls live in a quiet, family friendly neighborhood in a small town in michigan. they have a row of trees out back and a river just beyond the trees. every new yorker with a rent controlled eight by ten loft apartment is now officially jealous and should be.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/quasimoto.jpgquasimotoi drive a mini-cooper which doesn't have a lot of room. sometimes the driver's seat makes me feel like the victor hugo character quaimoto. that (and a few cups of coffee) gives me acid reflux. which has the same symptoms as a heart attack.2012-02-12T15:42:23+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/01/25/the-three-angels-of-my-trip/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/angels1.jpgangelsangels figure prominently in the christian, jewish and muslim religions. my favorite archangel is michael the warrior. but just for this moment, i think angels hazel, tommy and mary are just dandy!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/angels.jpgangelshttps://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/boston-house.jpgboston houseturns out the hotel she's thinking of is hotel mcmanus, her home. i'll be sleeping in her daughter's room. if there's a diary tucked under the pillow, i'm reading it! i love finding out what teenagers are doing, especially if they're not my kids!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/first-class.jpgfirst classpan am went out of business and flying isn't as glamorous as it used to be but who wouldn't want to go first class? it means i get to jump the line at the t.s.a. maybe they won't dare to feel me up because i'm. . . first class!2012-01-27T02:13:24+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/01/24/packed-up-for-my-first-facebook-journey-of-the-new-year/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/william-clark.jpgwilliam clarki am packed for adventure, with my william clark doll. he has been with me for every journey. last year, he traveled an estimated 60,000 miles. well, so did i.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/245px-william_clark-charles_willson_peale.jpg245px-William_Clark-Charles_Willson_Pealealong with meriwether lewis, william clark led the lewis and clark expedition. beginning in 1803, the duo traveled for three years across the western half of the united states, securing for president thomas jefferson the pacific northwest. although dead since 1838, clark has a facebook page. he is my facebook friend and i visited him last year. okay, maybe i just visited his biographer lanny jones.2012-02-28T04:01:25+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/01/22/sadly-pajama-days-must-come-to-an-end/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/winterwonderland.jpgwinterwonderlandalong the forest path, i met a cross country skier named harry who took my picture--it's hard to see, but there were deer in back of me. i think humans look pretty ridiculous to deer. like, why do those animals run on two feet when they have four perfectly fine hooves?https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/snowplow.jpgsnowplowfor my friends who say that they've never seen snow. it comes down hard and fast and then has to be shoved aside by trucks. when i took this picture the driver stopped and asked if i wanted his autograph.2012-03-12T16:54:53+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/01/21/were-going-to-party-like-its-4710/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/courage.jpgcouragemaking any kind of change in your life requires courage. it takes courage to say that you need to and even more to follow through. i think courage is a good thing to put together with friendship.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/friendship.jpgfriendshipthe chinese symbol for friendship is two right hands facing each other. you will have a lot of people wish you long life, prosperity and health. don't get me wrong. i want those things for you too. but i especially appreciate and want your friendship!2012-01-21T20:00:50+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/01/20/facebook-friends-come-out-from-behind-their-accounts/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/bolinbrook.jpgbolinbrookthey even welcomed by friend bonnie bradlee who went to high school with me and came to the meeting just to be "my support".2012-01-21T21:06:39+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/01/17/the-facebook-friendship-danger/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/kevin.jpgkevinkevin bacon has been in so many diverse movies that a game was devised called "six degrees of separation" in which kevin could be linked to any hollywood star through his movie roles. facebook allows you to be kevin bacon but even more closely connected.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/caribou.jpgcariboucaribou coffee is the second largest retail distributor of coffee in america (guess the first and you'll win a prize). coffee shops were created for the purpose of meeting people. use them!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/blaise-pascal.jpgblaise pascalblaise pascal was a mathematician and philosopher. he'd probably wager that having a chaperone is unnecessary but that the horrors of the damage created by the one time i would need a chaperone are so great that i was wise to just use one every time. he had some stuff about atheism, God and hell along the same lines.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/kathryn.jpgkathrynkathryn barnes went to wales to meet some new facebook friends and she was last seen at swansea's high street train station on january 4. while all her contact information has been stripped from her account, facebook of course would still have it. her mother is frantic. if i were her mother, i'd be frantic too!2012-01-17T17:25:07+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/01/17/tomorrow-i-meet-friends-like-me-and-some-will-be-on-facebook-too/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/wayne1.jpgwaynei need to get my john wayne on!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/missing.jpgmissingthe other ten percent? some of them moved during the year, some of them didn't respond to my requests to meet, some of them became too famous to be bothered, and some . . . weren't even people at all!2012-01-22T17:27:52+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/01/15/its-january-fifteenth-and-im-a-little-behind-on-my-new-years-resolution/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/white-wine1.jpgwhite winewhite wine, we have to talk. . . . i like you too much. so we have to break up. i'll still let myself drink beer but the white stuff's offlimits.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/asian-f.jpgasian fin the third episode of season three of the hit series glee, mike chang's father demands that the principal force mike out of the glee club because mike has received an A- on one of his tests. the A- is referred to as the asian F, in part because of the stereotype that asian parents expect perfect grades from their children. i met 90% of my facebook friends last year so i guess that's an asian F.2012-01-21T09:33:42+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/01/14/hey-wheres-my-facebook-money-and-the-need-for-early-supporters/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/libby.jpglibbylibby writes suspense and i am such a fan! you can find her at libbyhellmann.comhttps://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/facebook-friends.jpgfacebook friendsi like index cards, datebooks, and lists. libby is on this list as one of the first friends i saw last year. if you have a new years resolution, get some index cards, get some organization, figure out what you have to do each day to get closer to your goal.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/glen-thater.jpgglen thatersome of my friends are so famous that they don't have time or resources to respond to my request to see them. this dude wrote "harbinger of doom" and is a fan of my grandfather fritz leiber. i never saw him this year although i tried!2012-01-17T23:35:52+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/about/2021-09-08T17:16:55+00:00weekly0.6https://arlynnpresser.com/2012/01/13/create-that-panic-attack-and-enjoy-it/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/datebook.jpgdatebooki'm a big believer in index cards and datebooks. this time last year i was definitely working on a day at a time. . . https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/walmart.jpgwalmarti'm completely freaked by wal-mart but a lot of people are. it's like they've stuffed the entire planet into a pig's intestine. https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/plane.jpgplaneone time, i was on a plane and the person i was with said "oh, that's the noise the plane makes just before it crashes". i screamed. i was so ashamed of myself that i spent the rest of the flight with bright red hives. and didn't get on a plane again for years. and then only with a lot of white wine sloshing around my stomach.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/calendar.jpgcalendaraccording to some interpretations of the mayan calendar, the world will end in december 2012. according to the digital marketing firm icrossing, facebook will have its one billionth user set up an account on august 12, 2012https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/chocolate.jpgchocolate2012-01-26T02:07:26+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/01/12/i-want-to-thank-the-academy-and-the-mental-health-semi-professionals-who-made-this-possible/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/silly-rabbit.jpgsilly rabbitsilly rabbit, you had a LOT of help from mental health professionals. they're called family and friends!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/white-wine.jpgwhite winesometimes when i really feel down, i drink white wine. but after the dr. drew episode, i had an amstel light and read OK! magazine.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/heidi.jpgheidifor some reason i kept thinking of heidi fleiss. she was on two shows--celebrity rehab with dr. drew and sober house with dr. drew. instead of picturing dr. drew, i kept thinking about the fact that heidi the madam and owns over two dozen parrots.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/dr-drew.jpgdr. drewdr. drew pinsky is an internist, addiction specialist and a radio/television personality. he wanted to talk about my facebook project for his show on hln network.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/getattachment.jpgGetAttachment2012-01-12T23:05:58+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/01/10/so-im-in-a-coffee-shop-and/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/drew.jpgdrewwell, okay, way handsome. i'm in.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/invertigo_at_great_america.jpgInvertigo_At_Great_Americaoh, gosh, i got interviewed on good morning america. i keep thinking it was great america. nobody offered me rides on a rollercoaster.2012-01-11T17:09:02+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/01/05/if-youre-shaking-with-fear-i-am-too/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/globe.jpgglobeif i had thought too much about how many countries i would visit and how many times i would shut the door on my house and leave i couldn't have done it. https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/freddy.jpgfreddyit would take a lot to get me to leave the house. you might have a phobia that everyone knows about or that you keep to yourself. it might sound silly to others or to yourself but it's real. okay, except maybe freddy krueger in my house isn't. . . 2012-01-06T15:59:59+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/01/03/make-your-2012-my-2011/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/afraid.jpgafraidthe phrase originated in the 1986 film the fly starring jeff goldblum and geena davis--they were married for three years which in hollywood years is a golden anniversaryhttps://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/wayne.jpgwaynewho can argue with the man?https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/samoa.jpgsamoasamoa straightened out the international dateline by giving up friday the 30th of this year. just eliminated it from their calendar. i think they just were anxious to get to the new years party but you can switch your clock around too! make this day december 31!2012-01-03T22:01:19+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2012/01/01/the-new-year-begins-january-2-this-year/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/new-year1.jpgnew yearchinese new year for 2012 year of the dragon is monday january 23. frank skony's new year is january 2.. https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/new-year.jpgnew yearchinese new year 2012 will be monday january 23. frank's new year is january 2 following a twenty four hour sleepfest after completion of the end of quarter end of year reports. that's when we'll get together, the last facebook friend visit of the year!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/jenny.jpgjenny867-5309/jenny was a song on the tommy tutone 2 album released in 1982. its popularity caused many people to call the number and ask for "jenny"2012-01-02T09:57:23+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/12/30/your-new-years-resolution-is-going-to-happen-in-2012/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/dickinson.jpgdickinsonemily dickinson was a nineteenth century poet who was a reclusive spinster. i am not a spinster, having been married once. and i'm not a poet. but she definitely would have had a healthy facebook account.2011-12-31T16:26:33+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/12/29/friends-for-a-reason-friends-for-a-season/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/season.jpgseasonand some friends are for life!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/jeffrey-jon-smith.jpgjeffrey jon smithjeffrey teaches at both columbia college and facets film school in chicago. we talked a lot about what goes into making a movie! for jeffrey the miracle movie required a miracle--in health, finances, and endurance. sort of all the things we hope for a new year!2011-12-30T12:42:38+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/12/28/the-disasters-you-meet-will-never-be-the-ones-you-anticipate/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/white-wine.jpgwhite winei turn to white wine when i'm feeling awful. it's not like it helps matters any.2011-12-29T16:58:05+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/12/24/the-best-christmas-begins-at-norad/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/wendy.jpgwendyyes she can!!!!!2012-03-14T18:05:54+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/12/22/the-worst-christmas-ever-is-always-the-one-thats-coming/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/airsickness.jpgairsicknessairlines used to place airsickness bags in the pocket in the seat in front of you. they were for use when people threw up from nausea midflight.2011-12-24T01:27:28+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/12/21/my-last-f2fb-flight-of-the-year-unless-i-can-earn-some-easy-money/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/peter-butier.jpgpeter butierpeter butier welcomed me home to winnetka--he travels almost as much as i have this year because he balances a girlfriend in lake forest and children in arizona, california, and texas. i told him about the fact that this new years resolution was written about in huffingtonpost.com and he thought that was funny. i do too!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/karin1.jpgkarinafter a first marriage ended, karin met her second husband through their shared love of bell ringing. they both perform and karin is going to get her master's in music education. told you she was the smart one!!2011-12-21T23:41:56+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/12/20/yo-shortie-its-yo-birthday-we-gonna-party-like/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/lawson.jpglawsoni moved into the lawson ymca four blocks from northwestern law school. my world was in between the two buildings. the first night i stayed at the lawson a man jumped out of a window and killed himself. it happened frequently during the three years i lived there.2011-12-21T23:58:27+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/12/19/absinthe-sweater-trees-and-the-curious-habits-of-seattle/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/georgemoffat.jpggeorgemoffatgeorge and me. he's the handsome one. i'm the one who looks like me.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/sweatertrees.jpgsweatertreestres benetton, non? and perhaps a little hat to match?https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/jimmi.jpgjimmithe jimmi hendrix shrine--in vancouver's historic chinatown neighborhood. justin's about to hit the secret button that activates "foxy lady"2011-12-20T00:30:36+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/06/13/manifesting-greatness-and-living-the-dream-thats-california/2011-12-18T22:30:59+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/12/17/raven-of-the-northwest-on-my-last-big-trip-of-the-f2fb-year/2011-12-17T15:58:23+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/12/13/i-hope-my-mom-accepts-my-friendship-request/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/winnetka-talk.jpgwinnetka talkf2fb friend #277 has three stories and lots of cubicles inside.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/liza-roche.jpgliza rocheliza roche is my f2fb friend #276!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/mrs-patrick.jpgmrs. patrickmrs. patrick was over forty when i came into the patrick family. https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/aleta.jpgaletathis picture was probably taken around the time my mother and i had contact with each other. she would have been about my age. now she would be in her early seventies2011-12-17T20:17:09+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/12/11/being-a-minority-on-the-most-segregated-day-of-the-week/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/crocodile-dundee.jpgcrocodile dundeein the movie crocodile dundee, mick dundee (played by paul hogan) greets every new yorker he passes with a "g'day!" which proves impossible as he walks along times square. there's just too many people to greet. i sort of felt this in reverse at the apostolic church. so many people were greeting me and i'm not used to that. . . https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/dave-gotaas.jpgdave gotaasi met dave because we're both in rotary club. he and his wife sally live in northfield. sally was busy being a hostess at their home church in lake forest so she couldn't join us2011-12-11T22:22:19+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/12/07/when-young-musicians-play-scelsi/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/scelsi.jpgscelsiafter the first two pieces were played, i complimented the students--i said that generally natura renovatur by giaconta scelsi is a difficult piece. turns out they were playing the dance of the toy flutes by tschaikovsky2011-12-11T19:15:40+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/12/08/im-feeling-pretty-alec-baldwin-myself-today/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/alec-baldwin.jpgalec baldwinmr. baldwin got thrown off an american airlines flight yesterday--perhaps he wasn't carrying his capital one credit card!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/even-better-hug.jpgeven better hugjessica is adorable, beautiful and quick to welcome me with a big hug!2011-12-11T19:13:51+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/12/10/youre-going-to-make-it-after-all/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/cinderella.jpgcinderellai was at cinderella's castle and told the disney actress she did a great job of being cinderella. she blinked and said "and you do a GREAT job of being you!" those are very very wise words. but prescott says being on a disney cruise ship is like that. always maintain character, so if someone says "you were great in peter pan last night" you say "that wasn't me, peter pan came from neverland!" prescott does a great job of being a lot of people..2011-12-11T19:08:09+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/12/11/how-to-work-the-runway-lessons-in-being-a-supermodel/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/supermodel-walk.jpgsupermodel walkin order to walk like a supermodel, cross your right foot over your left leg so that it's actually to the left of that leg. then pull your left leg out from behind your right leg and place your right foot to the left of your left leg. this method is approved by giselle!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/santa-run.jpgOLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAnew york city was host to a santa run and so a quarter of the people in midtown manhattan were dressed as either santa, a sexy santa, or an elf. i was dressed as a midwestern middle aged lady who lives out of a suitcase2011-12-11T18:55:06+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/12/07/the-academy-award-goes-to/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/my-oscar.jpgmy oscarand the award for best portrayal of arlynn presser in a calendar year goes to . . . arlynn presser. we are all academy award winners of our own lives!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/rockit.jpgrockitwhen i lived in chicago in the early 1980's rockit was not in a good neighborhood. i lived at the lawson ymca which was most definitely not in a good neighborhood. i don't remember rockit being here but i'll bet it was a beer and a shot place back then.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/dennis-farina.jpgdennis farinadennis farina was a celebrity "confirmed attendee" and he was up for best actor for "last rites of joe may"2011-12-07T04:58:38+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/12/06/some-of-your-facebook-friends-never-want-to-see-you-ever/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/faerie.jpgfaeriethe couple brought me a fairie they had made themselves and i put it in my tree. can you find it?https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/zeeb.jpgzeebbeth and zeeb went to a furniture fair in chicago and appreciated an invitation to stay overnight at my house--after all, their datsun doesn't make a comfortable bed. i went to high school with zeeb. they are both committed to the paga religion. they are sweet and fun chaperones.2011-12-07T04:18:47+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/12/04/sites-and-stats-for-the-beginning-of-december/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/william-clark.jpgwilliam clarkwilliam clark is the american explorer most definitely dead since 1838. still, he is f2fb friend #60 and i "saw" him in princeton, new jersey. his biographer lanny jones is f2fb friend #59 and was our chaperone. briefly, facebook deactivated mr. clark's account on the basis that he was a "fraud" of some sort. my friend has been restored to facebook.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/glee.jpggleein episode 3 of season 3 of glee, the character mike chang gets an a minus and his father attributes this "asian f" to mike's devotion to the glee club. my asian f will come about because of a combination of spambots, deactivations, defriending, and people just not wanting to see me.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/my-car.jpgmy carnumber of overnight road trips (some as long as two weeks) in my car--142011-12-04T23:26:07+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/12/01/movember-ends-with-a-shave-and-do-i-have-to-go-to-the-pokey-to-see-f2fb-friend-268/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/jeffrey.jpgjeffreyduring november--movember--men around the world grow moustaches and beards to raise awareness and funds for prostrate cancer research. jeffrey is going to shave december one. https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/commuters.jpgcommuterssome people think commuting downtown is just as bad as prison https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/real-brunette1.jpgreal brunettebridget dyed my hair a beautiful chocolate brown. i got hives, not because i was allergic but because i was nervous. bridget told me lots of people get nervous sitting in a beautician's chair. she gave me a glass of water and i felt better.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/pontiac.jpgpontiacpontiac correctional center is near i-57 in central illinois. on many of my f2fb trips, i would think "should i just stop in and ask if they have jeffrey cokefair?" maybe i could bring him snacks or a cake with a nail file.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/real-brunette.jpgreal brunettejeffrey's ex-wife bridget (f2fb friend #260) dyed my hair brown. i got hives because i was so nervous. but then, i'm nervous about everything.2011-12-01T20:08:52+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/11/29/the-breakfast-club-convenes-at-the-northfield-grill-and-i-might-be-the-bastard-of-the-day/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/joe-and-karen.jpgjoe and karenthe two adorables!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/eggs-and-b1.jpgeggs and b.we met at the northfield grill and you might be surprised that i have gained weight this year, at one point a full eight pounds. but i lost four pounds on the "go around the world in seventeen days" diet, which consisted almost exclusively of airplane food and beer. should i write a diet book?https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/eggs-and-b.jpgeggs and b.2011-11-30T01:38:40+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/11/28/i-finally-meet-some-royalty-and-some-heavy-metal-coming-up/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/173343_1718862170_2840258_n.jpg173343_1718862170_2840258_nmr. grand vizier didn't actually show up at starbucks in his attire from last year's gala. this year's theme is "the british are coming" and the year will be 2012 and the very rare year in which it's the twelfth night of the twelfth year. . .2011-11-28T23:37:08+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/11/27/a-little-loco-and-less-than-five-degrees-away-from-everybody-on-facebook/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/loco.jpglocospecial golf balls just for mehttps://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/ho.jpghowhy does santa only say ho? i thought it was supposed to be ho ho ho! seen on my way to meet macon.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/kevin-bacon.jpgkevin baconwe used to play a game called six degrees of separation from kevin bacon where we would link every person in the movie industry to bacon through 2011-11-27T22:33:00+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/11/25/youre-invited-to-a-pity-party-in-fact-you-can-just-stay-home-because-thats-where-the-best-pity-parties-are/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/images.jpgimagesyou're invited to a pity party! must wear pajamas. must not answer phone. must not go outside. must repeat "life is hopeless". exaggerate the importance of physical maladies. be afraid of everything outside of your house. and a few things inside your house.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/redlightposter.jpgredlightpostertickets for red light winter can be purchased at maryarrchie.com and christmas carole tickets can be purchased at goodmantheatre.org -- please don't get the two plays confused!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/kristan.jpgkristanit was great to catch up with kristan. she produced a play eastman was in six years ago. she has had twins since then. https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/225px-theda_bara_-_cleopatra_02.jpg225px-Theda_Bara_-_Cleopatra_02my great grandfather fritz leiber, sr., was a shakespearean actor who often appeared in chicago. here, he is pictured on the movie set of "cleopatra" with his costar theda bara2011-11-27T22:14:51+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/11/20/if-i-have-only-one-life-to-live/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/real-brunette.jpgreal brunetteif i have only one life to live, maybe i should do it as who i am? i have lots of flaws and quirks and one of them is that i've always thought that being a blonde was the platonic ideal of womanhood. also, that beyonce is. on the latter point, i'm still right and jay-z says it's so!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/beyonce.jpgbeyoncehttps://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/clairol.jpgclairolif i have only one life to live, let me live it as a blonde!2011-11-20T23:18:26+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/11/18/jimmy-kimmels-national-unfriend-day-have-i-suffered/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/bill-and-don.jpgbill and donmeeting of two presidents--f2fb friend #258 on the right is don van arsdale. f2fb friend #259 bill finke is on the left. bill and i have been president of winnetka's rotary club. don is president of glencoe's club.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/boury.jpgbourythe third eldest boury son nic is a friend of my younger son eastman. in real life. and quite possibly on facebook.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/unfriend-180x128.jpgunfriend-180x128you don't get a sad face notification when you have been unfriendedhttps://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/conair.jpgconaircon air is a movie about a criminal transport plane that is taken over by the criminals. it must be confusing for t.s.a. agents to distinguish between dangerous felons and people who just want to go to disneyworld.2011-11-18T16:55:22+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/11/17/thank-god-it-wasnt-paintball/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/melissa.jpgmelissaafter seeing jo and walking around for a bit, i went to caribou and said hi to melissa!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/starbucks.jpgstarbucksstarbucks was named for the first mate in herman melville's novel moby dick2011-11-18T01:34:21+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/11/15/the-high-price-of-friendship-is-all-worth-it/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/jessica.jpgjessicajessica would love to have you take a look at the music theatre company in highland park--just go to themusicaltheatrecompany.orghttps://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/jean-huyler.jpgjean huylerjean is very relaxed, sitting with a glass of champagne in one hand. champagne is, after all, the reason God gave us two hands!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/betrothed.jpgbetrothedi've also published under the name vivian leiber. sex scenes are actually harder to write than you'd imagine. i don't ever feel sexy afterwards.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/blue-jean1.jpgblue jeanhttps://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/blue-jean.jpgblue jeanhttps://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/garnet.jpggarneti've published thirty three books and written two plays that have been performed in chicago. i can't help wanting to have some creative input. thank goodness i wasn't around when michelangelo was painting that stuff on the ceiling!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/eatpraylove.jpgeatprayloveelizabeth gilbert got an advance from a publisher to finance a trip to italy, india and finally indonesia. she got a movie deal and found true love. oh, and probably enlightenment too!2011-11-15T18:30:56+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/11/14/upon-returning-home-but-briefly/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/st-sebastian-players1.jpgst. sebastian playerseverybody claps for actors but who gives the love to the gal who runs the house or the dude who puts in the lights?https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/st-sebastian-players.jpgst. sebastian playersnancy and john do the "support work" that makes a show possible. everybody claps for actors but who claps for the gal who runs the ticket booth or the dude who puts in the lights?https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/panties.jpgpantiesi lost twelve pairs of panties in twelve different countries. and the only action i was getting was from female t.s.a. agents.2011-11-14T16:05:26+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/11/12/welcome-home-world-travelers-and-a-facebook-friends-takes-liberties-with-me/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/pb-joe-and-me.jpgpb, joe and mepb, joe and me -- with brad in the red coat. . . .https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/fire.jpgfire!jennifer christine harris of des moines, iowa was arrested for burning down the home of nikki rasmussen who had defriended her on facebook. i don't think i will be burning down claudia's house. i had too much of a good time in dortmund!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/welcome-home-world-traveler.jpgwelcome home world traveler2011-11-13T05:06:06+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/11/11/2527/2012-03-06T20:57:50+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/11/10/i-finish-up-seeing-facebook-friends-in-england-now-to-get-myself-home/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/the-tiger.jpgthe tigerat the tiger, we had a beer made in the next door brewery. i think i like how the british do things. the country also has something that i wanted to do very badly but which is illegal in the united states. i had to save that for the next day. . . . https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/brunel.jpgbrunelin bristol, we saw a suspension bride designed by isambard kingdom brunel, a nineteenth century engineer. he died before the bridge was even being developed. would you rather be revered and famous after your death or before?https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/easyjet-boarding-system1.jpgeasyjet boarding systemthe easyjet boarding system is modeled on the highly successful titanic lifeboat boarding system. when we took off i had the odd sensation that i could fly the damn plane better than the pilot. this did not instill confidence in me because i generally do not pilot planes. well, i never pilot planes.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/easyjet-boarding-system.jpgeasyjet boarding systemthere is no assigned seating on easyjet which sounds democratic in principle but results in some strange behavior2012-03-14T11:55:09+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/11/07/dortmund-might-be-a-disaster-or-just-a-distraction/2011-11-08T09:23:56+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/11/05/rome-sweet-rome/2011-11-06T16:18:14+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/11/02/and-the-falcon-didnt-poke-my-eyes-out/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/elephant.jpgelephantfacebook friend anto asked me what i wanted most from india. i said an elephant. i would love to ride one around winnetka when i do my grocery shopping. he did the next best thing--giving me a carved wooden elephant!2011-12-19T07:59:40+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/10/31/the-customs-of-the-country/2011-11-02T09:30:06+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/10/29/please-dont-feed-the-elephant-before-we-get-on-the-plane/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/taxi-saint.jpgtaxi saintif you didn't get to take an elephant or a tiara back from india, would you settle for anto prashanth? https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/hiltonchandeliers.jpghiltonchandeliersthe hilton mumbai is so fancy i felt like the romanovs had added an extra princess: tatiana, olga,maria, anastasia, and now arlynn! https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/busjpg.jpgbusjpgi wanted to take this bus to the airport but my son joseph insisted on a cab. kids are no darn fun these days!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/shantytown.jpgshantytownthis isn't to say that life is not good for some residents. i saw kids playing basketball and a man offered me a ferry ride but he might have been asking me to go fishing with him!2011-12-06T14:43:52+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/10/28/manila-is-not-a-disaster-and-now-one-of-my-facebook-friends-is-down-an-appendix/2011-11-02T04:58:34+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/10/26/ninety-percent-of-disasters-are-things-you-never-anticipate/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/sculptureconvert.jpgsculptureconverteverybody walked right by this thing as if it weren't remarkable. i wonder if i do that at home a lot!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/chestnutconvert.jpgchestnutconvertchestnuts roasting over an open fire seems more bing cosby than tai pei!2011-10-27T00:32:14+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/10/24/plenty-of-surprises-on-the-way-to-incheon/2011-10-24T20:44:13+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/10/23/okay-the-really-impossible-part-begins/2011-10-23T23:29:39+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/10/19/every-adventure-begins-with-the-word-impossible/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/jim-levin.jpgjim levinjim is an actor and was a highly valued college football player. but you could have guessed that from his good looks!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/happy_halloween_by_wrednawiedzma.jpghappy_halloween_by_wrednawiedzmaafter trick or treating at the vatican, i will head for germany on monday and wind up in england on the second of november!2011-10-19T22:59:23+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/10/18/theres-no-place-like-nome-except-home/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/three-glam-gals.jpgthree glam galsthree glamorous gals who take care of a lot of family! it's fun to take a night off!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/nome-airport1.jpgnome airportat least i wasn't going to get lost looking for the terminal. there's only one. but i had a two hour flight into anchorage, then thirty minutes to find the gate for the trip to chicago--i got tagged by t.s.a. security coming out of the gate at anchorage airport for a "random" screening.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/downtown-nome.jpgdowntown nomealaska has enormous natural beauty but i found downtown nome to be a bit depressing. partly that's because the town is above the tree line. wow, don't bring a lawnmower if you move here!2011-10-18T02:09:14+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/10/16/i-reach-inside-the-arctic-circle-and-then-head-off-to-no-place-like-nome/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/getattachment.jpgGetAttachmentat one time, nome was gold rush city! these days, the population has stabilized at 3,500 residents--about fifty percent of the population is native american, mostly of the inupiat tribe. this giant pan for finding gold is at the town's center, along with many mining troughs. gold continues to be found in nome but not by individuals with ambition, courage, and a pan!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/we-dont-need-starbucks.jpgwe don't need starbucksthe next morning i was so disoriented. there was no starbucks, which is the alternative to garmin gps. instead, there are little espresso shacks everywhere. this one also sold ice cream. i don't know. . ice cream? alaska?https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/date-night-in-nome.jpgdate night in nomedowntown nome has a subway sandwich shop with a movie theater. taggers decorated the outside of the theater/dining establishment. when i was in nome, the movie contagion was playing. nome was the destination of the 1925 "great race of mercy" wherein dog sled teams brought diptheria vaccine to the city. balto, fritz and togo were famous lead dogs on the relay teams, but balto is the only one who scored a disney contract. https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/nome-airport.jpgnome airporthttps://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/tinkerbell.jpgtinkerbellthe tinkerbell jet! decorated inside and out with tinkerbell's motto "follow me to the most magical place on earth!" our first stop was kotzebue, just inside the arctic circle. it was raining and snowing and we landed on a tiny strip of tundra. pilots for alaska airlines don't like to use up a long runway!2011-10-19T21:07:52+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/10/15/the-single-longest-one-day-trip-to-meet-a-facebook-friend/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/meandchristy.jpgmeandchristychristy is a fabulously glamorous woman anywhere, but in homer, alaska, i think she would make a great mayor!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/planes-trains-and-automobiles.jpgplanes, trains, and automobilesplanes, trains and automobiles was the story of two men who employ all transportation modes to make it home for the holidays! 2011-10-15T17:51:24+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/10/11/2375/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/packing.jpgpackingthe carhartt utility bag will carry everything--including a little traveler who has been my lucky charm!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/rex-and-ingrid.jpgrex and ingridrex and ingrid got married just last week and retain the glow of newlyweds!2011-10-11T17:09:37+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/10/09/the-worst-thing-i-ever-did-to-a-facebook-friend/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/imgres2.jpgimgresthe word inappropriate is a good way of shutting down the conversation or expressing disapproval in a vague enough way that it's hard to disputehttps://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/courage-to-grow.jpgcourage to growmaureen has developed a program for young girls to create bowls that evidence their strength.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/apples.jpgapplesmaureen was preparing for yom kippur, a day of fasting. but she wanted to share with me the beauty of rosh hoshanah wherein one eats apples with honey. i really needed that because i was a little shaky from too much highway, too much caffeine, and too empty of a refrigerator when i got home!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/imgres1.jpgimgres2011-10-10T16:40:27+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/10/08/and-then-i-found-out-my-relationship-with-elmore-leonard-isnt-quite-as-intimate-as-all-that/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/royal-oak.jpgroyal oakthe combined populations of kearney, northfield and winnetka is under 20,000. royal oak boasts 60,000 residents. you do the math on our respective sales!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/father-coughlin.jpgfather coughlinfather coughlin was the rush limbaugh of the thirties, and he had a radio show out of royal oak that was so popular a separate post office to handle fan mail had to be built. he died in 1979 after withdrawing from public life.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/hour-magazine.jpghour magazinejohn is a lifelong journalist, working in detroit and in royal oak. the hour detroit magazine is home to hour magazine, michigan bride, and dbusiness which john is managing editor2011-10-08T17:19:12+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/10/06/i-stall-at-229/2011-10-08T17:36:00+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/10/04/parking-in-the-poetry-garage-trembling-at-the-visa-office/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/imgres.jpgimgresi stopped at st. peter's church on madison street because the franciscan friars were doing an eleven forty mass for the solemnity of st. francis of assisi. he's the patron saint of, among others, upholsterers, poets, and florists. he was also one of the original christmas pageant producers!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/jemima-khan.jpgjemima khanimran's ex-wife jemima had a fling with hugh grant. i would too. not only is she beautiful, but she's smart and a respected journalist and heiress to a large fortune. https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/imran-khan.jpgimran khani briefly had a "thing" for imran khan. he's the pakistani cricket player turned politician. https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/poetry-garage.jpgpoetry garagei parked in the poetry garage. really, there's a poetry garage in chicago at 201 w. madison. i ended up on the eighth floor, one floor below langston hughes and one floor above emily dickenson. 2014-06-26T00:56:01+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/10/02/i-reach-the-73-6-mark-at-the-beginning-of-the-fourth-quarter/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/caylor-garage-sale.jpgcaylor garage salethis is how to publicize a yard sale. . . . 2011-10-04T21:04:55+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/09/28/als-and-my-facebook-friends-mission/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/lou-gehrig1.jpglou gehrigalthough most people believe yankees first basemen lou gehrig died of als in 1941, some believe he suffered extensive brain damage from his years in the field.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/lou-gehrig.jpglou gehrighttps://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/me-after-shots.jpgme after shotstraveling for f2fb to meet all my friends, i went to get some shots. today i am so swelled up my bones hurt2013-02-12T08:14:20+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/09/27/in-the-final-countdown-of-this-new-years-resolution/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/larry-rieger.jpglarry riegeri had a massive anxiety/asthma attack waiting to meet f2fb friend #225 larry rieger. i didn't say it was going to get easier, but larry was so sweet and interesting that it turned out all right!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/columbus.jpgcolumbusdamn, queen isabella just gave me the dough to take three boats and head west! https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/kate-winslet-oscar.jpg81st Annual Academy Awards - Showthe first step to a successful oscar win when you've never done anything more ambitious than a christmas pageant is to pick out your gown. maybe write your acceptance speech.2011-09-28T15:48:08+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/09/26/najpiekniejsze-panny-mlodej-na-swiecie/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/the-most-beautiful-bride.jpgthe most beautiful bridethe most beautiful bride in the world, dorothy, f2fb friend #225 arrives at the church!2011-09-27T03:13:48+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/07/24/a-small-little-convention-in-san-diego-plus-a-facebook-warning/2011-09-25T15:23:10+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/07/26/f2fb-friend-180-and-really-the-only-rule-about-the-resolution/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/072111122412.jpg072111122412https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/072111121621.jpg072111121621i leave san diego with my chef tattoo making me look fiercehttps://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/072611081714-1.jpg072611081714 (1)https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/072611081714.jpg0726110817142011-09-25T15:19:42+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/09/24/when-did-the-word-friend-stop-meaning-friend/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/me-and-mary-k.jpgme and mary kthat is not actually mary's porsche. it's not mine either. but a porsche is a nice background.2011-09-24T16:35:53+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/09/22/all-ive-got-on-this-facebook-friend-is-that-i-can-drive/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/lizzy.jpglizzyadorable, funny, smart--ah, my facebook friend lizzy has it all!2011-09-23T00:52:45+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/09/20/the-first-mrs-sickles-and-the-second-mrs-sickles-finally-meet/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/the-two-mrs-sickles.jpgthe two mrs. sicklesheather, rok, and genevieve--heather has invented a shoe that can be worn with or without a heel. rok and genevieve are heading for costa rica where they first met!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/daniel-sickles.jpgdaniel sicklesafter being found not guilty by reason of temporary insanity sickles went on to serve as a general during the civil war. at gettysburg, a cannonball shot through his leg. he donated the leg and the ball to the walter reed museum in washington2011-09-20T23:30:05+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/09/18/prepared-for-awkward-and-quite-possibly-dangerous-a-f2fb-adventure/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/mary-panek-and-vincent-vierra.jpgmary panek and vincent vierravince is an inventor and he created an app that disables the flash on a camera if it's within two feet. i should have snuck up behind these two!2011-09-19T20:15:41+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/09/19/never-leave-your-flip-camera-with-your-friends/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/enter-love.jpgenter loveyeah, this play is about love but it's set in an airport. the "i'm scared of flying" song scared the daylights out of me! go to questensemble.org for more info!2011-09-26T13:25:36+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/09/17/a-massive-apology-and-that-trigger-for-self-destruction/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/trigger.jpgtriggerthis is something i use for self-destruction. i wanted to put on my pajamas, bolt the doors, turn off the phone and watch movies while drinking this. until i passed out!2011-09-18T12:43:14+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/09/16/the-f2fb-shakedown-and-the-second-death-of-my-fiance/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/william-clark-in-towncar1.jpgwilliam clark in towncarthis is a william clark doll that i take everywhere with me! it was a gift from facebook fiance mr. clarkhttps://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/clark.jpgclarkwilliam clark is an american explorer who died in 1838. he is best known for the exploration of the expedition of 1803-1806 of the louisiana purchase2011-09-16T16:26:20+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/09/15/you-will-be-assumpted-into-heaven-in-a-lincoln-town-car/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/paddy-cathy-me-and-cindy.jpgpaddy, cathy, me and cindyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/william-clark-in-towncar.jpgwilliam clark in towncarof course, i took my fiance william clark (f2fb friend #60)!2011-09-15T18:09:15+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/09/12/nothing-is-worth-doing-unless-it-first-appears-to-be-impossible/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/nabil-foster.jpgnabil fosternabil is of the ba'hai faith and has a strong sense of social justice. i don't know how he has time to do everything!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/lynn-sanders.jpglynn sanderslynn is a playwright who developed a play about artificial insemination of the whooping cranes in beriboo, wisconsin. it inspired me to write a short story. inspiration works in strange ways.2013-03-01T16:45:33+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/09/10/i-will-move-up-your-legs-until-i-meet-resistance/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/walter-smithe.jpgwalter smithetim's father and two uncles own walter e smithe furniture company. i respect how tim is making his own way in the world, even though i'm sure the smithe company would love to have him working there!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/karl-and-joe.jpgkarl and joekarl and joe really were a lot of fun! i liked montreal but maybe not the authorities! brandon got a speeding ticket on the way back and is now on a registry for canadian criminals because he refuses to pay the fine. i won't go back either, except to visit bruce byfield in vancouver2011-09-10T19:08:34+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/09/09/the-ex-pats-take-me-to-the-biodome/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/trees.jpgtreesc'est chic! this was outside the mccord museum in central montreal. i was wearing black (biensur!) but wearing flip flops (mais non!!!!)https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/poutine.jpgpoutinepoutine is french fries with gravy and cheese curds. it's usually served with a smoked meat sandwich. i weigh 142 pounds. when i started this new years resolution, i was a slip of a gal at 138.2011-09-09T04:30:22+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/09/08/no-drugs-no-weapons-maybe-one-too-many-pairs-of-reading-glasses-and-lip-gloss/2011-09-08T14:09:11+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/09/07/home-sweet-hampton-inn/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/home-sweet-home.jpghome sweet home!the next morning, i couldn't help but take a picture of the hampton inn across the way. hampton inns are always clean, they give you treats, and they listen when you have a problem. i am absolutely not paid to say this, i'm just saying it because it's true.2011-09-07T14:09:53+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/09/05/my-near-death-facebook-experience/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/embroidery.jpgembroideryi told julianne that i embroidered this and that i had it framed and because i didn't want to embarrass her with my many talents, i put a tag on the back of the frame that said that an embroidery company had made this. plus a price tag. do you think she believes me?https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/glass-slipper.jpgglass slipperf2fb friend #170 carol hansen gave me a glass slipper--i really am a lucky girl!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/pork-roast.jpgpork roastthe pig roast of the day was preceded by a "polka" mass. i find religious services very cool, even if they're not of my faithhttps://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/william-clark.jpgwilliam clarksome of my friends have given me talismans to help me with my travels. f2fb friend #59 is the biographer of william clark, who is my f2fb friend#60. i take this clark doll with me on my travels along with a hedgehog given to me by f2fb friend #110 jeff barnes2011-09-05T23:10:59+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/09/02/not-that-fargo/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/billwedanshouse.jpgbillwedanshousethis is the home bill wedan grew up in and now that his parents have passed, he is in chargehttps://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/0029.jpg0029gosh, this is from a party where i met f2fb friend #197 terri wojak for the first time. i should learn to keep my eyes open!2011-09-02T23:38:39+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/08/31/montaigne-the-original-blogger/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/scott-rogers.jpgscott rogersalthough he's used to being a photographer you have to admit he'd make a great fashion model!2011-08-31T21:46:51+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/08/29/autobahn-in-buffalo-grove-and-a-setback/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/racers.jpgracersbrandon lee brown, jillian fox, phil fox and me--there is no way around it, these suits are not flattering!2011-08-29T16:45:48+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/08/27/f2fb-friend-201-teaches-me-something-in-time-for-back-to-school/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/steaknshake.jpgsteaknshakejulie and i met at the steak n' shake happy hour where from two to four p.m. milkshakes are half priced. why is a happy hour longer than sixty minutes?https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/julies-book.jpgjulie's bookjulie has also written "get well soon" and "the wild nerd yonder"2011-08-27T17:00:17+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/08/25/miss-f2fb-200-welcomes-me-home/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/shackletonhead.jpgShackletonheadshackleton's ship endurance was trapped in the antarctic but he lost none of his men--i went to miami (accidentally), atlanta, tallahassee, and huntsville and we didn't lose anybody!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/miss-200.jpgmiss 200i think we judge things and people to be beautiful if we like them. i like miss 200!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/twiggy_2.jpgTwiggy_2i so wanted to look like twiggy when i was a kid!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/army-dudes.jpgarmy dudesthese guys and gals were being deployed to afghanistan. i am so grateful to them for the sacrifices they and their families make so that i can live in peace2011-08-26T15:30:15+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/08/24/199-and-what-happens-when-a-friend-declines/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/spaceship.jpgspaceshipi didn't get to the space and rocket museum, but this auto supply shop had its own rocket. just as nice!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/jonathan-boyd.jpgjonathan boydjonathan is f2fb friend #199! the number is significant as it is a chen and permutable prime as well as a lucas number!2011-08-24T04:20:59+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/08/22/almost-at-the-two-hundred-mark-a-southern-excursion/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/the-morgan-family.jpgthe morgan familydale, susan, chelsea, duncan and dylan morgan (oh, and i'm in the back there too!)https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/getattachment4.jpgGetAttachmentso, in woodstock, georgia they have a dwarf house. unfortunately, it was a sunday and it was closed.2011-08-22T00:49:22+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/08/21/my-audition-tape-for-american-airlines/2011-08-21T14:35:21+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/08/19/i-love-the-nightlife-ive-got-to-boogie-on-the-disco/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/getattachment3.jpgGetAttachmentterri is the gorgeous one. i'm the gal who just got glitter on her eyelids.2011-08-19T18:46:34+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/08/17/patti-needs-a-tim-crawford-day-every-week/2011-08-17T21:04:20+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/08/11/living-responsibly-includes-thinking-about-the-small-things/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/zeebs-place1.jpgzeeb's placemy friend zeeb and his wife beth live in environmentally and socially aware surroundings--perhaps because of their pagan belief system2011-08-17T15:10:52+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/08/16/a-link-an-itinerary-and-a-lagniappe/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/getattachment2.jpgGetAttachmentprint this, laminate it, and put it on a lanyard. carry a clipboard or a camera. now you can get into anyplace on earth!2011-08-16T22:12:02+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/08/15/a-f2fb-friend-who-captures-the-moment-when-the-hard-work-has-already-been-done/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/getattachment.jpgGetAttachmentthis is a gal who has trained for this moment for a long time! 2011-08-15T18:22:29+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/08/13/stats-for-the-dog-days/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/dogs-in-cars1.jpgdogs in carsf2fb friend #193 cindy dillon can't drive anywhere in her sidecar without someone wanting to take a picture of her guys with "dog-gles"https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/cindy-and-me.jpgcindy and mef2fb friend #193 cindy dillon was given her sidecar as a present by her husband--i am not as cute as a dog with "doggles"https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/dogs-in-cars.jpgdogs in carstough to go anywhere without someone wanting to take a picture of these cuties!2011-08-13T02:43:44+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/08/09/i-am-disqualified-from-being-a-theater-critic-and-i-worry/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/zeebs-place.jpgzeeb's placemuch of the year, the petersons live in this van and drive it around the country promoting their line of fairy furniture and artwork . . . go to feywood.nethttps://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/nicole1.jpgnicolenicole worries that her career has suffered because of having children and a long term relationship!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/naomi-14.jpgnaomi (1)naomi was briefly retired from the stage but is auditioning again--i wish her luck!2011-08-10T23:15:06+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/08/08/the-wacky-wheelers-or-wonderful/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/cajetan.jpgcajetanhttps://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/080611144105-1.jpg080611144105 (1)sheila and lane wheeler--lane is holding his service dragon!2011-08-08T00:55:41+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/08/04/i-have-a-new-man-in-my-life/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/080311204529-1.jpgsonalipink is the navy blue of india! or at least, that's what diana vreeland said.2011-08-06T14:39:38+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/08/03/santa-cruz-loses-its-guardian-angel-and-i-take-a-step-backwards/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/chicago.jpegchicagowhere i was at last week when i was a whole lot braver!2011-08-03T13:17:49+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/07/31/an-angel-appears-in-aisle-five-and-then-theres-an-anunciation/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/cohen-house.jpgcohen housemost houses in winnetka have polished lawns and hostas, but becky cultivates native prairie plantshttps://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/abraham-and-three-angels-296x300.jpgabraham-and-three-angels-296x300this is what f2fb friends rebecca cohen and larry barkley look like (with lynn sanders who is also my facebook friend whom i will be seeing soon!)https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/arlynns-sexy-picture1.jpganunciationthe archangel gabriel reveals the results of the home pregnancy test to maryhttps://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/arlynns-sexy-picture.jpgthe anunciation of mary2011-07-31T16:36:01+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/07/29/no-i-wont-explain-about-the-lost-bikini/2011-07-29T22:33:44+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/07/28/the-spiritual-third-grader-gets-a-lesson/2011-07-28T22:22:50+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/07/27/the-flash-mob-f2fb-party/2011-07-27T18:12:18+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/07/21/the-unexpected-facebook-friend/2011-07-22T18:39:49+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/07/20/f2fb-friend-178-teaches-me-to-check-in-on-friendship/2011-07-20T22:44:59+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/07/20/a-f2fb-friend-shows-me-how-to-die-and-i-tell-her-how-to-avoid-it/2011-07-20T17:01:10+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/07/17/the-kids-table-teaches-me-a-lot-about-facebook/2011-07-17T16:11:42+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/07/15/f2fb-173-embarrasses-his-children-too-its-not-just-me/2011-07-15T12:59:51+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/07/14/love-fame-money-the-max-tam-dilemma-and-f2fb-friend-172-kristen-jasinski/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/harry-truman.jpgharry trumanharry truman's portrait by greta kempton2011-07-14T13:32:28+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/07/13/fearless-means-flexible/2011-07-13T14:49:58+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/07/12/the-cinderella-of-winnetka/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/cinderella1.jpgcinderella!i found this glass slipper on my front porch the next morning!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/cinderella.jpgCinderellathis cinderella is NOT my facebook friend!2011-07-12T19:12:42+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/07/11/facebook-friends-change-me/2011-07-11T23:39:22+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/07/10/when-family-is-facebook/2011-07-11T12:11:09+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/07/10/but-did-i-get-the-job-on-jerseylicious/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/when-former-self-meets-future-self.jpgwhen former self meets future selfsteve and a young friend. he calls the picture "when former self meets future self" i think it's the coolest profile picture ever!2011-07-10T20:52:10+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/07/10/im-late-im-late-for-a-very-important-date-my-sons-college-tour-with-f2fb-friend-168/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/0707111304381.jpgthe doopyman building2011-07-10T11:46:29+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/07/09/pippas-papers-and-the-art-of-forgiveness/2011-07-09T14:00:35+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/07/07/what-do-you-most-want-to-do-when-you-grow-up/2011-07-08T04:14:36+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/07/05/this-is-the-scariest-video-ive-posted-so-far/2011-07-06T12:08:51+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/07/04/f2fb-friend-166-flexibility-and-no-beer-two-out-of-three-aint-bad/2011-07-04T14:55:35+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/07/01/christmas-in-july/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/phil-hoza-and-me.jpgphil hoza and me2011-07-03T03:54:40+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/06/29/grace-is-the-messenger-of-love/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/tile.jpgtilea greek god tile -- most of her collection is from the arts and crafts movement of the 19th centuryhttps://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/kitchen.jpgkitcheni don't know about you, but my kitchen tiles aren't particularly interestinghttps://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/messenger-of-love.jpgmessenger of lovethis is a tile in carole's collection that is painted with a bird delivering a love note--the messenger of love2011-06-29T17:22:49+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/06/28/someone-elses-new-years-resolution/2022-05-26T02:12:31+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/06/27/on-this-f2fb-friends-diet-you-can-eat-a-pint-of-ice-cream-a-day-and-still-lose-weight/2011-06-27T20:24:44+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/06/25/the-front-stoop-moment/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/gardens.jpggardenslee often rides in the botanic gardens and showed me beautiful flowers, like these alliums. 2011-06-25T18:10:02+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/06/25/johnny-bladez-takes-me-to-a-party/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/john-and-woo.jpgjohn and woowoo is going for the "french waiter carrying key lime pie in complete seriousness" but johnny can't quite hide his smile!2011-06-25T14:06:44+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/06/23/facebook-is-sometimes-a-little-incestuous-and-so-is-this-post/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/iwan-ries-lounge.jpgiwan ries loungethe place has been around for five generations but i understand the recent heir does not want to continue the business!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/trying-to-make-smoke-rings.jpgtrying to make smoke ringsi can't hold a beer and blow smoke rings at the same timehttps://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/louis-or-richard-you-choose.jpglouis or richard, you choose!louis jourdan or richard gordon, you pick!2011-06-24T11:43:28+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/06/22/158-david-yonan-and-the-failure-rebound/2011-06-22T18:21:04+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/06/20/there-are-so-many-ways-to-fail-and-so-many-ways-to-succeed/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/meandtodd1.jpgMEANDTODDtodd and i in front of a mural of american gothic on north high streethttps://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/meandtodd.jpgMEANDTODDme and todd in front of the american gothic mural on the side of a restaurant in short north neighborhood2011-07-02T01:31:03+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/06/20/chris-treiber-introduces-me-to-his-first-love/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/chris-house.jpgchris housechris grew up in this house and climbed on the garage so that he could glimpse his first love2011-06-20T12:03:12+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/06/18/this-is-exactly-what-a-f2fb-encounter-should-be/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/view-from-trump-tower.jpegview from trump towerpatrick has a bet with his wife that he can visit every rooftop restaurant and bar in the city this summer. i believe he is as determined as i am to complete my f2fb project!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/view-from-the-w-hotel-pavillion.jpegview from the w hotel pavillionit was early but the empty tables were reserved so alas, we didn't get to stay!https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/water-taxi.jpegwater taxi2011-06-18T18:37:31+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/06/16/the-worst-time-to-have-a-heart-attack/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/woos-desk.jpgwoo's deskevery night woo worries about whether this cilnic is going to stay afloat. look at all the paperwork! i worry every day whether this project will stay afloat.https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/a-fenix-examining-room.jpga fenix examining roomis it wrong that i would lust after the hermes scarf?https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/medical-charts.jpgmedical chartswoo, like most other doctors these days, keeps medical records on her computer. therefore, these charts are not necessary.2011-10-03T07:55:02+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/06/16/the-last-piece-of-advice/2011-06-16T15:00:37+00:00monthlyhttps://arlynnpresser.com/2011/06/15/again-i-am-friends-with-nonhuman/https://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/phototronics2.jpgphototronicshttps://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/phototronics1.jpgphototronicshttps://arlynnpresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/phototronics.jpgphototronicsthe phototronics book "to hell and 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