The other day I was leaving a store equipped with automated doors—the kind that open as you walk toward them, leaving you with no greater job but to keep walking. I was literally millimeters away from smashing my face into the glass when it occurred to me that the automatic doors were not, in fact,more →

I have a “t-shirt” that I adore. My husband would laugh at the use of the word “t-shirt” (which is why I am lovingly surrounding it with quotes) because it is better described as a thin willowy patch of material that vaguely resembles a shirt and which must be handled with care so as notmore →

Happy May Day! When I was a little girl, every May 1st my sister and I would decorate colorful pieces of construction paper, roll them up into a cone, and stuff them full of flowers. Then we would skip our way over to unsuspecting neighbors’ front doors, set the flowers down, ring the doorbell, andmore →

Perhaps you remember as well as I do the Big Hair Bands that dominated the charts during the 1980s. These bands were known for their big hair, big concerts, big displays of pyrotechnics, big guitar solos, and big personalities. One of the bands that exemplified the image of the Big Hair Band was Van Halen.more →

I have discovered the secret of the Sock Monster. You know, the Sock Monster, that mythical beast that devours unsuspecting socks from the washer and dryer, leaving their companions alone and destined to become sock puppets? Well. I have found his lair. The other day I was moving some clothes from the washer to themore →