Of the people traveling in our group to Las Vegas, my
husband and I were the only two who hadn’t been there before.
So after an incredibly full day of sightseeing and more
than one sociable...
Imagine I’m at a retreat for people with peanut allergies, and that the absolute worst, deadliest thing that could enter that retreat is a peanut butter sandwich, because that sandwich could kill every single person there in five minutes.
So...
My friend’s 5-year-old has been asking
her mother a lot of questions about heaven, not an unusual line of inquiry for
children trying to figure out how the world works. If adults wrestle with the
concept of an ever after,...
A little more than a year ago, I watched a movie on Netflix, quite by accident. It was
a documentary called The
Magic Pill and it was about diet, specifically the ketogenic way of
eating.
Here’s the...
I was going to write about the Blue Jays this week, but I’m going to wait to see if they can pull off a playoff spot before I sum up the season. Instead, I’ll talk traffic.
If you’re ever in...
P.T. Barnum, a 19th century circus showman, famously
said: “There’s no such thing as bad publicity.” But I wonder if that famous
quote still applies to the cynical, paranoid, anxious society we’ve become,
where mass murders are commonplace and children...
The world didn’t end last weekend. If you’re reading this, you’ve dodged the apocalypse yet again.
September 23 came and went and you, like me, still have to pay your bills, walk your dog, and fold your laundry. That Saturday...
Strange what makes us feel sad and old.
Did you hear that Toys ‘R Us is shutting down its operations? It’s closing or selling its 740 stores in the United States, as well as giving up its international operations, Canada...
By my count, as this column is printed, we will be 91 days into the Trump presidency. Considering the number of newsworthy stories that have come out of the White House since the inauguration, doesn’t it seem like a...
Raise your hand if you still have a landline.
It may seem like a silly question, but the number of people trading their home phone line to rely solely on their cell phone, is growing every day, it seems. As...