Becca

what’s soft, white, and a 132 mil industry?

"The everyday marshmallow is toast."Replacing it: gourmet, fancy-dancy marshmallows made with everything from caramel swirls to chocolate chips to passion fruit."Even giant Kraft is jumping on board. ...
Posted by Becca on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 05:34:00 PST

Mom Arrested...

NEW YORK - Suffolk police arrested a woman for snorting heroin through a straw while pushing her three year old child in a shopping cart at Wal-Mart.  Mother Stacy Roe admitted to using drugs as ...
Posted by Becca on Tue, 29 May 2007 09:51:00 PST

breaking the habit: a tale of adjustment

the first day, i got the shakes.  oh, but, that sounds overly dramatic.  let's not call them shakes, shall we?  let's call them, say, tremors.  or quivers.  that comes off muc...
Posted by Becca on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 03:04:00 PST

the price of love, part four

as our nest egg swelled, i noticedsomething odd, though; my wife was competing with it for my affection.  my experiences with women and money had made me fonder of money, which doesn't spend itse...
Posted by Becca on Sat, 14 Apr 2007 07:11:00 PST

where is my mind?

what a nasty trick gingko biloba plays.  one who truly needs it must take it before they remember to buy it.
Posted by Becca on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 10:23:00 PST

the price of love, third part

...the breakup scene that should have come that night and begun with me chewing up my girlfriend's twenties, swallowing them, and promising to return them as soon as i found a public bathroom was post...
Posted by Becca on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 03:42:00 PST

the price of love, second part

years of work and thrift and decent luck eventually made it possible for me to start asking out the sort of pearly-whirlies who, i learned after traveling with a few of them, are the real reason that ...
Posted by Becca on Sat, 24 Feb 2007 11:06:00 PST

the price of love part one

The Price of LoveBy Walter Kirnback when i was young and broke and back when the girls i liked were broke as well, i used to steal gas from teh service station i worked for and try to convince my litt...
Posted by Becca on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:04:00 PST

the day ISA became isAA

word is, there is going to be snow in granada.we rendezvous at the puerta del sol metro exit, switching off from the pacifico entrance at the moncloa, and onto sol at 9 AM. lightly packed, ready for ...
Posted by Becca on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 01:45:00 PST

keeping up appearances, part dos

so, first, i stopped putting on make-up. most days, i washed clean, let my curls fall where they may, and left the eyeliners and the lip glosses and even the foundation on the shelf. not a touch of ...
Posted by Becca on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 03:10:00 PST