Our Thanksgiving tradition: The people who have toiled through the most meal-prep over the years (my sister and mother-in-law) fly from points East and West to rendezvous at'ꀦgasp...a restaurant for the festive meal'ꀦon us. When my husband and I first cautiously proposed this three years ago, i
Two different acquaintances recently e-mailed me links to Despair, Inc. [http://www.despair.com/index.html] I'm sure this is because I blog about quirky items, not a suggestion that I am the target customer for the Austin-based purveyor of goods for the hardcore pessimist and/or serious slacker. Tr
If I write 3,571.5 (or so) words every day for the rest of November (except Thanksgiving, when I have plans) I will be a novelist. I'm not going to make it, but not because I'm lazy. It's just that I didn't sign up in time for NaNoWriMo [http://www.nanowrimo.org/], which is how "National Novel Writi
When you turn 50, the American Association of Retired Persons [http://www.aarp.org/] sends you a nice red-plastic card to show folks who might otherwise mistake you for, say, a well-preserved 49-year-old.
