by Lavinia Plonka | Dec 26, 2011 | Humor/CosmiComedy |
I’m into extreme sports. I know, I don’t look it. Soft around the middle, gray roots peeking out of the bright red henna, vertically challenged. Wikipedia defines extreme sports as “certain activities perceived as having a high level of inherent danger.” It also...
by Lavinia Plonka | Jul 23, 2011 | Humor/CosmiComedy |
The other day, I was hiking along Laurel Creek. In the summer, I always bring a bag for wild discoveries: from porcinis to wine berries. I had forgotten to bring one, so I grabbed my car trash bag. I felt a little silly walking through the woods swinging my little...
by Lavinia Plonka | Jun 14, 2011 | Humor/CosmiComedy |
Scarecrow “They took my arm and they threw it over there! And then they took my legs and threw them over there!” Tin Man “That’s you all over.” I have several vivid memories of forgetting. The first one was about age eight. My mother had discovered the Sears outlet...
by Lavinia Plonka | Jan 21, 2011 | Humor/CosmiComedy |
Due to the vagaries of circumstance and fortune, I spent a period of my adult life reading Tarot cards at parties as Madame Lavinia. I look back on that time and wonder if that was yet another unplanned detour from my still mysterious life purpose, or part of the big...
by Lavinia Plonka | Jan 1, 2011 | Humor/CosmiComedy |
January 1 is an arbitrary date, decided by a pope or an emperor somewhere in the mists of time. There are many cultures around the world that celebrate a different New Year. Yet they’ve all come to agree that for practical purposes, we all start anew on January 1. In...
by Lavinia Plonka | Nov 8, 2010 | Humor/CosmiComedy
As I stumble into the 21st century; cell phone charger wires dangling from my purse, a snake pit of wires coiled under my feet at my desk (last time I checked: Computer, phone, fax, speakers, cell phone charger, heater, printer, mouse base station and my Skype...
by Lavinia Plonka | Oct 5, 2010 | Humor/CosmiComedy
Most people don’t remember a peculiar moment of temporary insanity in America’s culture. We speak nostalgically of our hula hoops. We all remember where we were when we first heard The Beatles. But who waxes fondly on the accordion orchestras that flooded the nation...
by Lavinia Plonka | Sep 11, 2010 | Humor/CosmiComedy
Years ago, I came across a survey conducted by the Roper Organization. According to its survey, approximately 33,000,000 Americans showed signs of having been abducted by aliens. A booming industry of abduction specialists ranging from psychotherapists to...
