Yesterday was a lucky day for me because I had the good fortune to be seated next to you in the Chinese restaurant where I'd met a friend for lunch. It’s evident to me that you are quite popular because your cell phone rang repeatedly the entire time that we were there. I'm glad … [Read more...]

The Date: It happened unexpectedly. Oliver was talking with a group of his classmates about the last lecture when a girl said she needed some help. "Would you help me understand what I just heard?" She asked with a smile. Now Oliver wasn't sure, but that smile seemed to mean a … [Read more...]

I was among friends the other night when someone brought up the new tech term “twitter.” I took aspirin from my purse, held my jam-packed head in my hand and asked with faint brainwaves, “what on earth is that?” Not another high-tech something-or-other, I thought, and was … [Read more...]

It’s just one more reason in a long list entitled “how I know I’m getting old.” Even though I promised myself I would never do it, I have started comparing my childhood to my children’s and saying things like “you don’t know just how good you have it,” and “back in my day…” and … [Read more...]

My turn. Finally. After eight years of being a guest in someone else’s home, eight years of pushing food around on a pilgrim-adorned paper plate, after eight years of my aunt’s tongue-curling pumpkin pie and that colorless sludge my mother-in-law calls gravy, I was hosting my … [Read more...]