Having passed the honeymoon phase in my marriage, and the age of forty, I was feeling a little old, a little droopy. Keeping the spark alive is important to me. I have no intention of wearing matching track suits with my husband, morphing into roommates who mostly look forward … [Read more...]

“Miss Henderson? Is that you? The light…the light is so bright I didn’t recognize you at first. Whoa! That means I’m past tense, doesn’t it? The last thing I remember is unwinding in my hot tub and knocking back a bottle of Cabernet. “Hey…Is this like that TV movie about the … [Read more...]

It is a sort of tragedy when the quasi-messiah of the teenage population makes an unforgivable decision. It wasn't Ferris Bueller's choice to lie, nor to fake a call, skip school, or steal a car and an identity that shamed high schoolers nationwide. Rather, it was his … [Read more...]

“Best pickup line yet,” Katie wrote. “He showed me his Walmart badge to introduce himself from his car and was surprised when I responded with my Kmart badge.” We, as guys, love our pickup lines, which we know are witty, clever and bound to make girls swoon right into our … [Read more...]

Flipping through a catalog of must-have kitchen gadgets, Terry had enough. “Oh, come on!” she exploded. “Why would ANYBODY need this?” She waved the catalog under my nose. It was a brownie pan that, for $20, comes with a slicer that always cuts your brownies into 12 equal … [Read more...]