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Tips for Surviving Thanksgiving Dinner, 2016 Edition
Much like at Alice’s Restaurant, the cult classic folk ballad by Arlo Guthrie that seems to resurface on the radio every Thanksgiving on the ride over to Grandma’s house, this year it se...
Red, White & Bologna
There was a time when admittedly I kind of liked bologna. I was probably in grade school and it was what we had lying around the fridge, so it made a fine sandwich that I ate for lunch on many an occa...
Just Vote Already
Can you believe it’s finally almost that time of year?! No, not Christmas … although you’ve only got 49 more shopping days and I heard that stores are already starting to put out th...
Nightmare on Pee-Pee Hallway Street
I’ve peed a lot of places over my years. Some I’m not proud of, but none like this. Never anything like this… * * * * * * * * * * It’s intriguing how the sound of something...
Never Enough Storage
Ten years ago I admittedly wasn’t the biggest fan of suburbia, with its rows and rows of houses that all look exactly the same, and the SUVs and minivans lining every driveway, and the kids̷...
A Celebration of Fall Flavors, But Mostly … Who Are We Kidding?!
Does everybody know what time it is??? Judging by the number of groans as you all reluctantly clicked on this link, I don’t even have to tell you that IT’S PUMPKIN TIME!!! because by now...
Humor in the NICU
All three of my kids have now spent time at birth in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, otherwise known as the NICU or The Place That Actually Means It When They Tell You to Wash Your Hands, to the...
Parents Say the Darndest Things
Parenting changes you. And not just by turning things like sleeping in on the weekend and playing video games with every iota of your waking free time into distant memories, but also in more direct wa...