Archive for November, 2011

Step 2: Boys don’t make passes at girls who stay home every night to study.

Continuing your education is a good idea for the up and coming Spinster for many reasons.  Here, I’ll bullet them to get you used to reading Powerpoint as in a lecture class: Truly, you are improving yourself; increasing your intelligence, expanding your knowledge of the world and yourself. In an economy such as our current [...]

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Writing a speech about a 50 year marriage feels like swimming the English Channel when I only know how to doggy paddle.

My parents celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary recently.  My brothers and I all spoke.  This is what I said. How do you stay in a relationship for 50 years?  I’m seriously asking?  A 50 year union sounds about as easy as climbing Mt. Everest.  I imagine it would require the same things, patience, a steady [...]

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How to be a spinster in 12 easy steps. Step 1) Have your father clean his gun collection in front of all would be suitors

I’m jumping the, well, let’s just say I’m getting ahead of myself already.  But I do want to go on record right away with saying it’s never to early to start planning for Spinsterhood.  There are a number of ways you can go about this from a fairly young age, depending on your upbringing, family [...]

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