Today I was remembering my favorite harbor on Anna Maria Island. You see, there is this long, old pier, I believe at least some of it is the original pier from the 1920's when folks started ferrying themselves to this tiny haven. I' [...]
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Yesterday I found a stash of old photos from my 7th grade at Roeper School. It was a important year in my life, and the friends I made there are ones I continue to cherish to this day, even the ones who are no [...]
Update: I Hope We Don’t Suck
Bad rehearsal, good performance. Bad rehearsal, good performance. I just keep saying that over and over. Hell, a little sucky improv at rehearsal fuels my adrenalin for our show at the Boston Improv Festival this Sunday. Usually I don’t get nervous [...]
Wouldn’t it be fun to have a studio audience follow you where ever you go? I’m thinking about an Oprah-styled audience here. Very supportive. Very pro-you. I haven’t watched Oprah in years, but one of the parts about her show that always intrigued me was her ability to say [...]
I had the most astoundingly awesome time at the Del Close Marathon at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theatre in NYC last weekend. Over two days, I clocked about ten hours of improv viewing pleasure. My idea of heaven! Although the yumminess is all a blur of quick wits, [...]
My daughter Sierra, her friend Hope (oh! how this name foreshadows our tale!) and I were walking the dog early one summer morn. The weather was, for once, lovely. Not too hot. Not too cool. Not too buggy even. The girls brought a carrot each, a treat for our [...]
Samantha sets a goal for tomorrow's Facebook usage. Does she have what it takes to break free of its insidious grip? Tune in to FACEBOOK REHAB, Episode #3 to find out!
The latest video release of Samantha Greene's struggle with her Facebook addiction. In this episode, Sam bemoans her inability to resist her Wall's singsong seduction: FACEBOOK REHAB Episode #2: "The Siren's Call"' [...] 
The "Facebook Rehab" series is coming to video! Episode #1, "Goodbye My 'Friend'" has just been released: Facebook Rehab #1. [...] Facebook Rehab 6: The Epilogue
By “Samantha Greene”
Michael Corleone and I have something in common besides a love for Diane Keaton: “Just when I thought I was out….they pull me back in.” Facebook is my Mafia godfather, forcing me to prostrate myself and kiss his ring daily [...]
Facebook Rehab 4: Strike of The Enabler
By “Samantha Greene”
It’s my usual time to Facebook. I’m wearing my favorite FB sweats, sitting in my comfortable chair, got the incense and a glass of red by the computer. In short, I’m in full frontal Facebook mode. [...]
Facebook Rehab 2: Day One of the Rest of My Life
By “Samantha Greene”
Warning: The following is a diary of one woman’s Facebook withdrawal program. Because of the intense nature of this endeavor, material in here will not be suitable for young readers and those with delicate sensibilities. [...]
Facebook Rehab
By “Samantha Greene”
Warning: The following is a diary of one woman’s Facebook withdrawal program. Because of the intense nature of this endeavor, material in here will not be suitable for young readers and those with delicate sensibilities. Reader discretion is advised.
Day 0: [...]
My First Session with Dr. Facebook
I’m just going to come right out and put it on the table here. I suffer from C.A.P.S. (Cyber Addictive Personality Syndrome,) and I am seeking help for my Facebook addiction. This confession is the first step of my therapy with Dr. Facebook.
Ironically, [...]
The Hilarious Book I Did Not Write
Catherine Newman wrote the book that I should have written, and I’m trying not to hate her for it. “Waiting for Birdy” is the hilariously neurotic tale of the year she was pregnant with her second child. I’ve passed around the book to [...]
Nobody Sings About My Life on the Good Stations
by Pamela Victor
For some reason I’ve been drawn even more to music lately, and I’ve been listening carefully to lyrics. I noticed that the vast majority of songs are about – yes, you knew this already – love and loss. It’s [...]
This essay is dedicated to any poor sucker who has ever been on a diet. You have my deepest regrets.
Ode to a Rice Cake
By Pamela Victor
I yearn with every fiber of my being for a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Sometimes when [...]
As a long time pooh-pooher of new-fangled technology like Blackberries, Twitter, and call waiting, I always felt a self-righteous jolt of superiority when friends talked about being plugged into those online social networks. I’m a 21st century Luddite at heart (except for cable TV…and don’t even think about taking away [...]
Tiers for Fears: Parenting in the 21st Century
by Pamela Victor
Since becoming a parent, I’ve had different versions of this same conversation dozens of times. Usually, I am huddled among a tight cluster of mothers, sparks of anxiety zapping into the center of the circle like a [...]
I am about to confess to something that will probably get me in a lot of trouble. We’re talking tarred and feathered, branded with some scarlet letter or another, turned into a social outcast and put on the phone solicitors’ Do Not Call list. My closest friends have suspected this [...]
When I am feeling particularly daring and masochistic, I do my family’s weekly shopping on a (gasp!) Saturday afternoon. Jam-packed with crazed shoppers, even the most crunchy-granola Happy Valley-ites become stressed and overwhelmed at our local market. Whilst my shopping cart was cornered between vegan chocolate and soy goat cheese [...]
Between you and me (she writes with no small irony in her blog,) I am sort of relishing the tanking of the American economy. No, I am not cruelly enjoying that people are losing their jobs, homes and the ability to feed their families. On the contrary, my heart goes [...]
Almost immediately after Barack Obama was elected president, or at least the next morning once I emerged from the groggy, sleep-deprived state of euphoria, I began mourning the loss of the Fantasy Obama. On November 5th – and even more so on January 21st – Reality Obama was born, and [...]
When I close my eyes to blink, I see pugs. Big pugs. Little pugs. Obese pugs. Rib-thin pugs. Black pugs. Blond pugs. Happy pugs. Hot pugs. Pugs dressed costumes. More pugs dressed in costumes. Unique people who belong to the pugs.
We have just returned from the 12th Annual Pug [...]
Yesterday, the kids and I were taking a tour of an orange orchard/wildlife rehabilitation center that is well worth the time if you’re ever in Bradenton, Florida. Our tram driver/tour guide was telling us how the orange orchard has been in her husband’s family for 70 years. (By the way, [...]
Essays? Updates? WTF?!, Pamela Victor
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