I must admit that I haven’t been watching a whole lot of soaps during the past month. For various reasons … some personal, some caused by the busy holiday season and some related to my substantial disappointment in my favorite daytime dramas recently … my tube watching has consisted mostly of Momma’s Boys and college [...]

I am finally starting to emerge from my Daytime-Emmy-induced stupor, and something hit me. I miss the televised Soap Opera Digest awards. Anyone else feeling the void about now? I used to love seeing all the soap stars dressed to the nines and actually enjoying themselves because a) every soap had a chance in Hades [...]

Dontcha just love big, splashy weddings on soap operas? After more than 25 years as a viewer, I still get excited to see all the pomp and circumstance. The pretty dresses. The stylish tuxes. The flowers. The vows. Oh, yeah. And the inevitable glitch. Usually in the form of a presumed dead spouse … or [...]

Happy New Year, dear readers! Wow, 2008 is here, and hopefully it will be a good one for you — and our beloved soaps. Anytime our new year comes around, I always think of the Chinese New Year. Other cultures and their traditions never cease to fascinate me. The Chinese New Year doesn’t start until [...]

Sometimes its seems like there’s a lot of complaining in the world of soaps, especially online. I’m as guilty as anyone, so I thought it would be good at Christmas-time to talk about what I’m enjoying on my favorite daytime dramas. OK, here it goes … Jason and Elizabeth on General Hospital. Lucas found a [...]

There’s been some big news in casting the past couple weeks. Sarah Brown (General Hospital‘s original Carly) is returning to Port Charles, and Rebecca Budig (All My Children‘s original Greenlee) will be popping up again in Pine Valley. Although they both launched significant soap characters, there is a difference in their returns. Sarah is slated [...]

When embarking on this new adventure three months ago, I never realized the scope of soap-related blogs and sites. And every day, it seems like I discover another. Not only that, but several sites have been nice enough to place links to Soapbox on their site, which helps spread the word about us. So I’d [...]

I’ve been thinking a lot about hair lately. I don’t know. Maybe it’s all the drama and tragedy and tears happening on my favorite soaps that has me turning to more trivial thoughts. In any case, I’ve been checking out characters’ hairdos more closely than usual. And now I’ve decided to share some of my [...]

I started watching soaps in high school as a means of escape. It was a way of pretending that I was popular, that I made the cheerleading squad and that the cute trombone player in the band was my boyfriend. In reality, I was a band nerd, playing my French horn in the marching band [...]

One day at work, I heard the two words that would change my life forever. OK, maybe that’s a bit dramatic, but this is a soap opera blog, after all. Cut this wannabe daytime diva a little slack. As I was saying, I heard those two magical words, words that would make any good soap [...]