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When my alarm clock beeps I whack it with my hand and wait for my dog. She walks from her cozy canine blanket at the foot of my bed to join me on my pillow. I make our morning snuggle time quick and leap out of bed before she can dole out “morning thunder”, that predictable first … [Read more...]
Recently, my Muse decided to go on strike. Alarmed at my dearth of words, the ones as a writer I rely upon, I do some checking and sure enough--there's my Muse, picketing the corpus callosum, that creative center of my brain. "So what's the deal?" I ask my Muse. "Why are you … [Read more...]
A multitude of Yule feasts are on the front burner and I will thank you very much NOT to sneak healthy stuff into my stuffing. I am concerned about this because of the popularity of Jessica Seinfeld’s cookbook “Deceptively Delicious.” First, let me point out that she is the wife … [Read more...]
Twice last week, sets of friends visited my home for the first time. In both cases, they fooled me completely. They knocked on the front door. I was waiting at the back door, where friends are expected. “I didn’t know you had a front door,” another friend remarked when I told … [Read more...]
The New York Mets have officially approached Major League Baseball, requesting a shorter season for 2008, citing that a 162 game season is just too long. “We were in sole possession of first place, for 135 days and since the middle of May, and look what happened,” said their … [Read more...]