I have a lump in my throat and my chest is all tight now. Why did I do that? Why did I have to enter "John Lennon's murder" into Google? I was looking up "What You Got" to see if it was 70's or 80's and that got me on a whole John Lennon Magical Mystery Tour winding up with shots of him dead. I was in NY at the time and it was traumatic. Uh-oh gotta go. Kid's calling. Talk Later, xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo, m

I’m getting ready to go pick up my brother-in-law, then come home and make a mean Tofurkey. I’m glad Cody’s coming because that makes  it more of a special family event. Growing up I was always around all my cousins, aunts and uncles, grand parents, brothers, dogs…it warmed me to the bone. They’re all still gathering in Troy, NY and I miss them! I never thought my life would be such that I moved far away from my family. I feel like that song in Fiddler On The Roof, “Far From The Home I Love” but as the song goes “…yet, here with my love, I’m home.” My husband and my two kids and my 3 dogs and 2 hermit crabs and 1 leopard gecko…I’m home!

So I’m off to get my kid’s uncle Cody, then at some point today I want to tell you about VAN HALEN AT THE STAPLES CENTER! I’ll just say this: it was better than I expected, not as good as I’d dreamed. More later!

I’m thankful for you, that you’re reading this…

xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo, Martha

Unfortunately my hard drive is gone, dead, RIP. One day, while surfing around for the benefits of coconut oil, I got the spinning wheel of death that wouldn’t go away no matter what. When I finally managed to restart my computer I got a little flashing question mark. Just a little question mark, didn’t look sad or scared or menacing, just blinking. My husband was wise to this icon and he just kept saying, “You wrecked your hard drive!”  He has a tendency to dramatize so I didn’t take it too seriously until I googled “flashing question mark” and pretty much every site said, “You wrecked your hard drive.”
A new hard drive was installed, but I have my old one. If anybody out there has some insight on how to retrieve info from a corpse HD, let me know!
So one of the casualties is my poll question. I have no idea how to change it, all that info is kaput. And that’s a major drag because my daughter and I came up with an excellent one!
We heard that Britney Spears song, “Gimme More”, and were saying it’s so fascinating because she’s acting like she’s her regular superstar self, when everybody knows she’s gotten her kids taken away, she can’t see them without a monitor, she can’t even drive them anywhere. I said, “things have to be pretty bad for all that to happen. Michael Jackson never even got his kids taken away.” She was amazed. “Michael Jackson has kids? Boy, I feel bad for them.” 
Then we came up with this question: Who’s kids do you feel more sorry for? Michael Jackson’s or Britney Spears? I wish I could post it but if you want to send me an e, I’ll put them on my e-mails page. I’d be curious to see what you think!
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed my show this week, I’m definitely thankful that I get to be in touch with you all!

xoxoxoxo, Martha   

Hey! I just went to NYC so I couldn't write for a while. I love New York. Just driving in from the airport I swear my heartrate went up, my palms were literally sweaty. I swore I'd never ever ever leave the city. I used to look at people who lived anywhere else in the world and think, "what's the point?" But then I took a vacation to LA, met my husband, went home and packed up my Greenwich Village apartment. I was gone in weeks. But i was 26, it just seemed like a fun idea at the time. I didn't think I'd be there forever!