You know it’s time to update your home technology when your six-year-old complains there’s not enough hard drive space to support his online gaming habit. Our computer’s not even that old. By contrast, the microwave oven is much older, but still fills our needs perfectly. Same … [Read more...]

There I was in a nudist resort nestled in a canyon near Los Angeles. The grounds were breathtakingly beautiful. The hot tub was perched on the highest peak and overlooked a view of the mountains that could make an eagle cry. But it wasn’t nature that I was there to see, at … [Read more...]

I swear never to purchase another gargantuan shopping club package of paper towels, toilet tissue, disposal cups, behemoth cellophane packs of cooking spray, unliftable containers of cat litter and laundry detergent, cases of soft drinks, banquet-sized entrees and mounds of … [Read more...]

My husband almost paid me a compliment the other night. I was fresh out of the shower without a stitch of make-up on. My hair was... well, clean. I was wearing his old boxer shorts and an ancient sweatshirt from a sorority I was never even a member of. Suffice it to say, I’ve … [Read more...]