Women are from Venus; Men are from Mars

Women are from Venus; Men are from Mars

Lights out at 7:35 p.m. No, this is not a description of our Baby Boomer bedtime. Lights off, TV becalmed, desktop computers no longer sleeping, but shut down. More importantly, the carefully-plugged in emergency light poised between the kitchen and family room did...
Look me in the eye

Look me in the eye

What I said in my outside voice: “Hi, good to see you again.” What I said inside my head: “Look me in the eye, not the lids”, while the woman, an acquaintance I hadn’t seen in some time, scrutinized the space between my pupils and...
Living Life as a Miracle with Innocent Blush

Living Life as a Miracle with Innocent Blush

What would you name your favorite flush? Royal? Our household’s new favorite flush is ‘Innocent Blush’, the color of the new toilet in our entry hall powder room. There are many funny, awkward jokes embedded in that color name of a discontinued...
BUCKET LIST

BUCKET LIST

“Bucket List”… If I hear or read that term one more time, I’m gonna implode. I’ll kick a bucket, onto somebody’s head like one of the situations of “Because a Little Bug Said Kachoo!”,  the ‘butterfly effect’...
Hemingway’s Bar

Hemingway’s Bar

Hemingway’s Bar. I recall the joy, my enthralled awe as I plunked my butt on a stool at Hemingway’s Bar in Paris. It was long before I set my intention to write a book, yet I succumbed to the immediate allure, the pretense of sitting in his place. Heady...
Living Life as a Miracle: Business Class

Living Life as a Miracle: Business Class

A couple of years ago we had the great (great-great-great) good fortune to fly ultra-luxuriously on >>> Business Class from LAX through Dubai to Africa and back. It was sublimely awesome in every way, not the least of which was that we had time to sleep...