Deep Thoughts with TLCG | Theresa L. Goodrich

The Culinary Cycle

July 18, 2013 by Theresa

I spent the evening enjoying a fabulous dinner across from some people who had apparently had a really bad day, maybe a really bad life. They found problems with everything. That is, until I waxed rhapsodic about my steak. Then they each asked for a bite. They, amazingly, approved. They looked for problems and found … Read more

My Nina

August 29, 2012 by Theresa

I’ve never looked lightly upon owning a pet. I suppose the exception would be when I was in the tail end of elementary school and the early years of Junior High and I would bring home any placid unsuspecting amphibian that crossed my path. Frogs, turtles, snakes all made their way into various shoeboxes and … Read more

One of these things is not like the other

January 8, 2012 by Theresa

Days 7 & 8: “I detest humanity. I’m allergic to it.” – Brigitte Bardot, sixties glamour puss First of all, I categorically disagree with Ms. Bardot. Second of all, I’m disappointed to see this quote in this calendar. I guess it goes back to the whole opinionated idea, but I just don’t see how it … Read more

Good to be Bad

January 7, 2012January 6, 2012 by Theresa

Day 5: “To be good is to be forgotten. I’m going to be so bad I’ll always be remembered.” – Theda Bara, silent film vixen When I was growing up my mom used to sing a little rhyme to me: “There was a little girl who had a little curl right in the middle of … Read more

Comfort Zone? What Comfort Zone?

January 5, 2012January 3, 2012 by Theresa

Day 3: “I’m very inappropriate, which makes me a problem dinner guest, because at some point during the evening someone inevitably says, ‘Okay, heh heh heh, okay, too much information! Heh heh heh. Don’t go there!’ I live there. I bought a house there.” – Margaret Cho, the empress of edginess I’m betting everyone has a … Read more

Love Me or Hate Me

January 2, 2012 by Theresa

Day 2: “Fifty percent of people want to sleep with me, and the other 50 percent want to kill me.” – Rachel Marsden, political pundit Way to come out of the gate swinging, eh? When I first read this quote I thought “what the heck am I going to do with that!?” Mae West and … Read more

2012 Is Going to be a Wild Year

January 5, 2012January 1, 2012 by Theresa

Every year for Christmas my mom gets me one of those daily calendars. You know the kind – each day has its own page and when it’s done you tear it off and move on to the next one. They’re also themed. My favorite up to now was last year’s Mensa. When I’d get to … Read more

What Goes Around Comes Around

November 28, 2011 by Theresa

This weekend I received one of those emails that makes you dance around in your sock feet and say YES and makes your significant other and the cats look at you like you’ve gone batso.

Look Both Ways

October 11, 2011October 11, 2011 by Theresa

Tonight I saw something no one should ever have to see.

The evening started off pleasantly enough. I met my boyfriend Jim at Columbia College because he was moderating a panel for the Chicago Music Commission. I felt a little silly-romantic because that’s how we’d met almost two years ago. He moderated, I introduced myself. We joked tonight that it was an anniversary, of sorts.