Let the Good (Prozac) Times Roll!

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Nowadays, physicians whip out the prescription pad when women my age cross their thresholds. Hot flashes? Prozac! Empty-nest blues? Prozac! Husband suffering midlife crisis? Prozac. (Why the wife must medicate herself when Goofus makes a damned fool out of himself is beyond me, but hell, if being stoned helps women avoid committing manslaughter, I’m all for it!)

My first brush with Prozac came in 1989, after I had been unceremoniously dumped by a chinless mama’s boy. I’m not sure which depressed me more—that I had settled for a guy who still wet his pants, or the fact that said pants-wetter had dumped me first.

The next business day, I was first in line for legal drugs of any kind. The psychiatrist, who looked to be about 12 years old, pressed several samples of 150 mg. Prozac into my hands. “Take your first one after dinner tonight. You won’t feel any effects for two weeks,” he promised.

Like hell I won’t!  Read more

Mommy Dearest

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Scene from The Bad Seed, 1956

Mommy Dearest was a truly crappy movie.  I always want to put it on a double bill with Great Balls of Fire as a tribute to bio flicks gone wrong.  When that movie came out, I started calling my mom, Mommy dearest.  She thought that was hilarious.  Also, anybody seen The Bad Seed?  When that murderous little brat, Patty McCormick, says to her poor, victimized mother, “I have the nicest mother, the sweetest mother…I tell all my friends”.  EEEUUWWWW!!!  She loved it when I’d say that to her.

On this rainy Sunday, and I find myself missing my mommy something awful.  She’s been gone a dozen years now and I miss her all the time.  I miss her when I’m frustrated, thrilled, fat, thin, when I have a cold, but especially on this day: The Oscars.  My mother was a rabid movie fan and she would have been spending this day laying out an array of Goobers and Good and Plentys, Coke with crushed ice in wax cups, popcorn with real butter, Read more