I can’t sleep. I’ve stared at the ceiling for hours. The fan over our bed has rotated three hundred and sixty three times. Here comes another hot-flash ebbing like high tide at Cape Cod. Some people count sheep…I count Worry Warts. Worry Warts are virtual worries that plague … [Read more...]

After working a long day in Manhattan, my boss/friend/bad influence Maria and I hit the streets with one goal: meet someone famous. Anyone famous. On previous trips we have spotted celebrity look-alikes and a rap star, but one day Kiefer Sutherland came walking into our favorite … [Read more...]

One morning my husband and I hopped in the car to leave for our respective places of employment when suddenly a string of expletives issued from his mouth. Alarmed, I asked, ""What's wrong?"" ""My socks don't match!"" he bellowed, raising his feet above the pedals. Sure enough, … [Read more...]

With four children ranging in age from 13 years to 20 months, it is a wonder our family has ever simultaneously seen the inside of a church. But my oldest daughter had signed up (during Sunday school and without my knowledge, of course...) to do the reading at Sunday Mass. My … [Read more...]

""University Alumni Office, my name is Penolope Plinth, third p is silent, and how might I help you today,"" said the cheery voice. I was abruptly taken back to an incident 46 years previously when a well known M's Plinth fell asleep during a History of Ancient Antarctica final … [Read more...]