Fresher Meat

Out of the shadows...my mystery woman!What's New With Laura:

She had a baby.

The Baby's Page, recently updated.

Laura's Work: Laura is currently back part-time at the NYS Department of Health's Bureau of Quality and Surveillance for Intermediate Care Facilities for the Mentally Retarded.

Dossier: Laura Ellen Mandel (nee Bibula (bib 'YÜ-luh)) was born on September 20th, 1969 in Manhattan, NY. The middle child of three (an older brother, Steven, and a younger sister, Susan), she was raised in Queens. Ask her about it sometime. She married Josh on October 28th, 2001.

Laura's advice for potential marrieds:

ELOPE
(Not that Dotty warned them or anything. It's none of her business!)

 

 Three things I like about Josh

Three things Josh likes about me

  • carrot soup

I his cooking

  • crab and asparagus soup

I bring out the "loud" in Tuppy

  • kickass mac-n-cheese

I buy him silly earrings

 

 

Three things I love about Josh

Three things Josh loves about me

  • Andy Rooney

my clearly outlined lips

  • the four-coin assembly trick

I never interrupt

  • I can read his mind

my eternal devotion

I swear this is a candid photograph. Laura and Kielie just happened to be passing by a mottled blue background such as occurs naturally in the environment, and they turned and looked at me JUST as I snapped the picture.

Laura with Kielie, firstborn and heir to her immense fortune.

 

Laura's Currently Reading:
Get Your War On, by David Rees. This book is through the usual means, but much of its contents may be viewed online for free here. Warning: the language on this site is definitely not for young readers.

 Laura's Recent Reading recommendations:
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin; Growing Up by Russell Baker; Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom by Christiane Northrup; Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley; and Dave Barry Slept Here by Dave Barry.

I swear, Judge Judy, she told me she was 18!