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 [...]
I love a good walk with a friend, especially these days when those soothing balms of socialization have become a little trickier to apply. We tramp off, mostly toward the river, and unburden ourselves of adulthood while we breathe in good, clean air. Walks with friends provide the perfect antidote to whatever life throws your [...]
It may be that I’ve been hibernating too long myself, but yesterday, rather than celebrating Groundhog Day with my usual its-almost-spring-even-though-it-really-isn’t optimistic zest, I felt a little sorry for all those groundhogs. I imagined myself being yanked from a sound slumber and held aloft, hair all matted, eyes blurry and sticky with sleep, frantically trying [...]
I bought my son Charlie and daughter in-law Tara some Christmas jammies , reasoning that if they could not join us in person for the holidays, at least they could join us in festive flannel. Then, I cheerfully sent them off, 25 days before Christmas. Feeling no pressure at all, thanks to my uncharacteristic postal [...]
