Can you imagine having a photographer snapping your photo all day long as you go about your business? I cannot. Well, I can imagine it, but I would not like it. You cannot begin to know how many strange and unflattering expressions I make and how many awkward gestures exist in my repertoire unless you [...]
Tag: President of the United States
Apparently, I am a Betty…
I was reading an article on Huffington Post and I noticed a personality quiz that asked: Which First Lady Are You? My first inclination was aggravation that it wasn't asking me which President I was. As if my choices or personality could be so easily pigeonholed...pish-posh! Despite my consternation with the inherent limitations in the [...]
They are all “our” children…
I was grateful to see President Obama on television this evening speaking at the Memorial Service in Newtown, Connecticut. I felt that the members of that community and the country needed to hear the President acknowledge that the horror of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary is a shared sorrow. In the President's comments he referred to the [...]
“FLOTUS”
I received an email the other day from Barack. The subject line read, "FLOTUS" - which caused me to say, "What the hell is that?" I am, after all, in a field that is fairly acronym savvy so I consider myself to be quite sharp as it applies to de-acronyming things, but FLOTUS??!! WTF? Now, [...]
THE NEW FORTY 