I’m a 37-year contact lens wearer. I first wore contacts when they were like Barbie-car headlights that you pushed into your eyes and if you left them on there a half-hour too long, you’d end up in the ER with gauze pads covering your eyes and taped to your face. Only when they were […]
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The Five Things You Meet in My Purse
There’s a blog baton being passed around, called “Five Things You Don’t Leave the House Without.” At first I thought, Why anyone would want to read Purse. Cell phone. Keys. Altoids. APStylebook over and over again? Humans are not that different; We’re all going to leave the house with the same five things, right? […]
Lasik Me
My husband got Lasik surgery last weekend and he hasn’t stopped bragging about how well he can see. He’s been blatantly driving his car and reading the newspaper, just to throw it in my face. It’s gotten so bad that I’m thinking of getting the surgery myself, even though I watched him get it […]
Where Are My Reading Glasses?
No, really, that’s not just a title, I really want to know. Do you know where they are? Because I can’t find a single pair of them. For about the 10th time since I turned 40 and have had to rely on reading glasses to read stuff, I had a spontaneous disappearance of all […]
I’m Not Old, I Just Feel Like Wearing These Glasses
My sister Reenie was visiting this week and I made a startling discovery. She’s much, much, much older than me and she doesn’t have to put on little glasses to read fine print, recipes, Mapquest directions or the measuring lines on a mint julep jigger. He hair isn’t gray and she still has freckles, […]