Few Bricks Shy

Yesterday, my daughter had a medical procedure. (It went well and she’s fine, thankfully.) But the procedure required her to have an IV...

"If you sprinkle When you tinkle, Please be neat And wipe the seat.” I admit it: I am one of those women who does not sit do...

Image courtesy of Witthaya Phonsawat FreeDigitalPhotos.net Whenever I read about some super-charger who prides themselves on sleeping o...

As I mentioned previously , I am clueless about fashion and clothing. Generally, I wear tee-shirts and jeans. Because I now live in Tex...

Image courtesy of Ambro at FreeDigitalPhotos.net I don’t know exactly how, but I missed the memo other women apparently got about how t...

A recent New York Times essay  suggested that the meds   used in suicides should have their tablets individually sealed in blister packs. ...

When I was a little kid, as my mother tells it, I was a very easy child, except that, every once in a while, inexplicably, I’d get really, ...