I thought there would be Wi-Fi.  Look. I’m no stranger to the corners of the planet lacking Wi-Fi. Our family cabin, built by my husband’s grandfather in 1938,…

I was not the one to call.   Sure. There are situations in which I am the one to call.  Like the day the beagle rescue called to say a nine-year-old beagle…

It’s spring.  So now, besides worrying about getting trapped in a deep-sea submersible, demonic possession, tumbling into space when my tether to the space shuttle is…

We’re going to talk about toilets today.  I won’t be graphic. It’s cool to sip your coffee and eat your biscotti.  I remember the day I moved into my apartment. Just…

Let’s just stipulate we’re all addicted to our phones. That society is disintegrating beneath the weight of our screens. That one day, our phones will rise up. Kill us. Decimate…

My husband and son are binge-watching the late-aughts television show Community.  It’s a nice little bit of bonding between the two of them, critical now that my…

You may remember I placed a bid in Gwyneth Paltrow’s auction.  Well, let’s back up a bit.  Perusing the auction house website made it apparent several items were within my price point.  But…

Despite the rollator drama, things with Willie have been uneventful.  Don’t get worked up. My saying that isn’t going to jinx anything.   Willie has seen to that.  I was visiting Willie a few weeks…

Needless to say, Willie loves drama.  I could give you links to specific columns, but really. If you pick one Willie-looking column in the above link, you’ll get…

I came home from visiting my oldest at college to find my youngest — home alone for days — had cleaned the dishwasher filter.  I…

My physical therapy orders indicated I had a Colles fracture.   So I Googled it.  Fracture of the wrist, usually from falling on an outstretched hand.  You don’t say.  Colles fractures, my…

I remember how disturbed I felt reading Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. The eponymous characters felt so untethered. With no real idea of why they were…