Simply Rain

Simply Rain

What do you do when you can’t sleep, Constant Reader? It’s a decidedly female dilemma, something hormonal and related to cortisol levels. A physician once explained the phenomena to me: that the mid-afternoon stress level is mirrored twelve hours later, at...
Poolology and Social Permission

Poolology and Social Permission

It’s well-known that men and women differ: biology, psychology, sociology… On and on the divergences show – and flow. Even in our sports club’s pool, where I observe all. Especially there, when-and-where my limbs are occupied. There are three...
Double entendre words

Double entendre words

We’re all aware of double entendre, a French phrase that masks dirty tricks of language, sexual innuendo and such. I recall an embarrassing attempt to titter beyond my parent’s Squaresville comprehension once as a teen. Only once. Nevermore…I’d...
Double entendre words

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...