“Are you going to write about Jen and the Sleeper Sofa?” my husband asked me the other day. He doesn’t often weigh in on my blog subject matter, but there may have been another story he wanted to keep off the internet, and thought steering me to write about the closest I’ve ever come to […]
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Stop Saying You’ll Move Out of the U.S. if Trump Wins
For one thing, you won’t. Moving is hard. If you haven’t moved a lot, you’re going to have to trust me when I say moving is harder than dealing with a President Goofus when we’ve just gotten comfortable with President Gallant. You’re not going to move to Canada and you’re definitely not going to move to […]
Think You Know All There Is to Know About Food on a Cruise?
The rumors are true. All of them. The stories, the maritime legends. All spot-on. The food on a cruise ship is a hot mess of awesomeness. I recently went on my first cruise and I wasn’t on board 24 hours before I went, “Ah . . . Well played, cruise word-of-mouth advertising; well played.” The […]
I’m Already Dehydrated
I’m not going to sit here and list the things about post-menopause that suck, but let me zone in: Somewhere between #14 Rogue Hairs and #18 Epic Hangovers is the constant slow death by thirst. It’s like your body mourns the loss of estrogen and progesterone, and wants to drown its sorrows in water. Fortunately for my […]
Not 60 Yet But Who’s Counting?
A friend and I were chatting recently when she leaned forward and gave me a look that I recognized to mean I have something to tell you and it’s not pretty. “I have a big birthday coming up, you know,” she said. I stared blankly at her. The only big birthdays I know are 10 […]
Gluten-Free Madness
A couple of geniuses took an annoying thing about 2016 and tried to put a positive spin on it. Biologist Gene Kritsky and entomologist Jenna Jadin are in National Geographic talking about how you can take cicadas, those obnoxious chatterboxes, and skewer and eat them. Literally. Like as a snack. That would have made Gene and […]