Any of you ladies need your pencils sharpened? After I’ve been to France, be on the look out for extra-sharp pencils over there. You may have heard that Paris is full of dull and broken pencils. All that will change once I get there and start using my French language skills. Eshkish baw, aigee […]
How American Are You?
Very good friends of mine recently became U.S. citizens. Every time I think about it, I get all patriotic and I kind of wish I had been born in another country so I could become an American in a proactive way. I even wrote a little movie script in my head, in which I […]
Iron, Man, Iron
I killed another iron this week and had to buy a new one. The confession of the day is that I still iron. Not only do I still iron, I tend to work my irons until they die a sudden, painful death that usually involves an electrical problem. Sometimes there are noises and oozing […]
Senior Picture-itis
My daughter just got her senior pictures taken, so I can mark another thing off my list of Last Times I Get to Do Stuff. As my youngest child, this is the last time I’ll take someone to senior pictures. In the nick of time, too. I’m just at the age and crankiness […]
And the Winner of the Longest Receipt Contest Is . . .
Stores have gone survey prize crazy. Is it me? Don’t I recall receipts being way shorter and retail stores not giving two hoots about what my opinion was? Apparently now every store from Abercrombie to Zara is dying to know how my shopping experience has gone. For filling out a survey, I can win […]
That’s Italian
Nine days in New York City will give you a new insight into the ethnic makeup of this country. For example, if you live in the Midwest or Connecticut or Montana and you think there’s a nationwide immigration problem and it’s Mexicans sneaking across the border, stay in my hotel in Chinatown and tell […]