My husband Vince and I were "just friends" when we started playing co-ed pickup basketball games almost 40 years ago and we relied on a simple, effective game plan. He roamed the perimeter and fired me passes under the hoop and I, recognizing the timidity of macho ballers reluctant to guard a girl, would put [...]
I gave my son a T-shirt for his birthday because I thought it was cute. He's a 34-year old man who lives and works in New York City so you'd think his options for wearing cute T-shirts might be somewhat limited. But, I don't care. I just wanted him to know I thought he was [...]
My phone took a trip to LaCrosse without me on Saturday and I'm trying not to take it personally. She buried herself in the passenger seat of my friend's car and enjoyed a nice little road trip. It took me a while to figure out where she had gone. I felt a little frantic when [...]
About a year ago, my friend Facebook asked me if I’d like to make our relationship FB official by creating a bitmoji. I played around with the idea very, very briefly and then declined. I don’t like to think that hard about what I look like. It’s kind of deflating. Ah, but Facebook is a [...]
I love the Progressive Insurance commercials in which Dr. Rick teaches new homeowners not to become their parents. Those little snippets crack me up. Teaching a parent how to silence a cellphone? Ha! Who hasn't done that? So funny. Explaining a PDF to a group of elderly people? Yes. I have done that too. Chuckling [...]