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It's late in the 4th quarter. Your team is driving but they are out of time-outs and need a touchdown to win. The quarterback rushes the team to line of scrimmage. As he barks out the signals, you sense that something is not right. In fact, something is very, very wrong. Your … [Read more...]
My husband has a passionate crush on a hybrid car he test-drove on his birthday. The engine and battery are bright and shiny (and thus inherently sexy), and the car scores a staggeringly high coolness quotient with him and his buddies. He has tried to tell me he likes the car for … [Read more...]
Waving a rubber mouse at a charging elephant. Leaping off a barn roof while flapping feather dusters. Soothing Simon Cowell with a little ditty. All are hazardous missions. Or so I suspect. Two of those I’ve never attempted and the other experiment was cut short when Mom … [Read more...]
I turn fu-fu-FIFTY next month. I know this because a) I've begun to receive mail from the AARP, b) clerks at stores have begun asking me if I want to take advantage of their senior citizen's discounts just by looking at me and c) my children are speaking to me (or should I say AT … [Read more...]
The most irritating thing about the man in my driver’s seat is not that he won’t ask for directions. It’s that he won’t ask for the toilet. Often, about 10 miles into a road trip, he’ll start bumping his left knee up and down in a Rockabilly beat, even though there’s no music … [Read more...]