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 […]
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Ballad of the Green Berets
I know I save way too much stuff for sentimental reasons (although I am not a hoarder, let’s make that clear. I am not a hoarder. Not a hoarder) but even I think I may have gone too far with my Girl Scout uniform. (But even so, not a hoarder.) It doesn’t take up […]
College: Apply Generously
I don’t know how stupid or lazy people get their kids into a university these days. I’ve been doing college applications with my daughter and I haven’t felt this mentally exhausted since I had to bullshit-write my way through a geek-level psychology class in 1981. That semester could not end fast enough. It would […]
OK, But It’s Still Your Dog
I don’t have a dog anymore, so maybe I have no say-so in this, but I think that some Florida people are taking their dogs way too seriously. I’ve seen people take them to the mall with them, and I’m not talking about seeing-eye dogs; just regular non-helpful dogs. I’ve heard them on airplanes […]
Moles, Warts and All
I was strolling through The Straight Dope (Motto: “Fighting Ignorance Since 1973. It’s taking longer than we thought”) and let me say, if you haven’t been there and you’re looking for yet another Internet Time Waste, you should check it out. There you can learn the answers to questions like: Is it true Coca-Cola […]
Let’s Get Physical
It’s that time of year again – time to fill out the health assessment so employers can find out personal things about their co-workers’ private lives and use them to make judgements about people’s livelihoods. The Tea Baggers can just shut up about the Obama White House sticking its nose into our personal health […]