Show of hands: Who puts the shopping cart in the corral after loading bags into the car? And who thinks that spending 20 seconds to put it where it belongs is for suckers, so will spend 45-60 seconds leaving it right where it is, finding that perfect spot where it won’t drift or if […]
Well, It Was the War
On Veteran’s Day, which was yesterday, people my age like to mention their fathers’ service. You’ll hear a lot of stories about where dads served during World War II. I found out that one friend’s father served in Her Majesty’s Royal Engineers and Mechanics Corp after escaping Hitler’s Germany with his Jewish bride. I’m […]
Fighting Care-Package Guilt
The parental guilt train never stops. My 20-year-old son is in his second year of college and although he can do his own laundry without having pink underwear, tie his own tie, go to dinner at the dean’s house without getting expelled, and ace tests and papers with ease, he apparently is a helpless […]
My Doctor and the Core Ball
My son, the Photoshop prince, made this photo of me, if I indulged in stacks of doughnuts, mega-cheeseburgers and Pepsi. I appreciate the cleavage, but the core is definitely in bad shape. I’m typing this sitting on a core ball. You know what a core ball is? It’s a big ball, kind of like […]
Cleveland, Meet My Wardrobe
I went to Cleveland (and boy are my arms tired. OK, that’s just wrong. Never mind). It was the first time in three years I had to / got to wear wintery-fally clothes. Florida is great, but there are some definite advantages to wearing clothes that cover up your skin, and not just if […]
Be Nice Like You Are
With only 10 months before I enter the Empty Nest phase of my life, I’ve been doing a lot of fantasizing about how I’m going to reinvent myself. I’m the luckiest duck on the planet, since my options are many. Short of starring in a movie with Ray Liotta, I could actually live out […]