In my professional experience, I’ve delivered my share of medical understatement. Falsely reassuring pronouncements, such as “you might feel a slight pinch” when drawing blood, I uttered them daily. Let’s be real, if a pinch really felt like that, those delivering said pinch are … [Read more...]

The first sign of the presence of mice coincided with the absence of a man. Two days after my divorce was final, I discovered tiny turds in my candle drawer. Later, I witnessed an unmistakable furry flash across the kitchen floor. I screamed like a college girl in a gone-wild … [Read more...]

Recently, my wife and I watched our three grandchildren, ages seven, five and three, while their parents enjoyed a four-day vacation. We soon learned why nature rarely blesses sixty-year-olds with children. "It'll be more chauffeuring than babysitting," our son assured us. … [Read more...]

Pick up a magazine, turn on the television, click on your computer and sure enough, they’ll be the latest and greatest news about skin care, complete with a long list of dos and don’ts. For me, the list has always seemed ridiculous. If you followed all of the rules and latest … [Read more...]

Please. No more e-mail jokes. My mailbox is jammed; my time is consumed with important issues. I have work to do. Why am I part of Bob’s new job description of company jokester? I am recipient of his, sometimes, twelve jokes in one day. He retired from the family business, but … [Read more...]