Yesterday, I celebrated life with another slice of birthday cake and, if you'll indulge an old woman, I'd like to share a couple of observations I made at the close of my 53rd year. Full plates should be savored. There is a tendency to gobble when our plate is full, to rush the chewing so [...]
Among the many things I learned during the Great Blizzard of 2018 -- that snowblowers have carburetors, that carburetors fail, that robins don't eat bird seed, that if you position an electric blanket just right it will form a cocoon from which you'll never want to leave, that John Mulaney is so funny he elevates [...]
When the blizzard Evelyn came roaring into our neighborhood Friday night, plopped herself down and refused to leave we thought, "That's not the Evelyn we know." When she whipped herself into a frenzy, tossed tree branches into our yards and left waist-high snow drifts and ice in her wake, we said, "That's not our Evelyn." [...]
My friend Angie mused a little during our Wednesday morning bootcamp. "You know," she said between impressive plyo jacks. "If you squint from a distance, the snowy bushes can look like flowering dogwood trees." This is what it's come to here in the Midwest, where spring takes its ever-lovin' time. We delude ourselves. One year, [...]
We strolled down to Lawrence University Sunday afternoon and treated ourselves to our first, but the school's 42nd, annual International Cabaret. I highly recommend this authentic extravaganza of talent, humor, fashion and good will. The show kicked off with a gorgeous Chinese dance called the Thousand-Hand Guan Yin. I feel like we all could use [...]
