Marian Robinson Paints the Capital Red

by | May 7, 2009 | Cherchez La Femme

Three months ago, a matriarch in her early seventies reluctantly agreed to leave her beloved routine and comfortable Chicago bungalow to move with her daughter and granddaughters to Washington D.C., where her son-in-law had just gotten a really good new job. Now, she...

No Girls Allowed

by | Apr 29, 2009 | Cherchez La Femme

Time reported on some strange folks on Monday. A woman left her dead husband's body sitting in a chair for a week because she believed that he was in a trace (he was a "spiritist"). A woman in Chicago sued her husband for divorce because he asked her to...

Oh, Manny!

by | May 9, 2009 | Cherchez La Femme

Manny Ramirez will be suspended from 50 games because he tested positive for performance enhancing drugs. Is this just Manny being Manny? Or Manny being Manny, only better? I wonder how the man got to this point and how long it's been going on. I wonder if Dodgers...