Menu Snafu

It happens every time. My husband loves Chinese food so if we go out to eat, it’s high on the list of options. His favorite dish is Mongolian Beef. Years ago, while at his favorite spot, he picked it out and requested it from the drill-sergeant of a waitress who came out to take our …

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Why Normal Women Shop at Nordstrom’s

In the US, I call it junking. The Aussies call it up-shopping. I like that term. Other references include thrifting, second-handing, and up-cycling among others. This is a highly skilled operation that few appreciate and even fewer master. I can’t tell you how many times I get a compliment on an item I’m wearing, then …

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My Body is a Sagging Tent

A dear friend, 6 significant years younger than I,  contacted me feeling woebegone. She’s about to turn forty and she feels lousy. Her eye-sight is suddenly failing, her metabolism is on strike, and her children – all under the age of 8 – think they are smarter than her despite her doctorate degree. She’d envisioned …

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Disrupting the English Language

Funny things my eleven year old says “I hate it when people enrupt me.” “What am I exposed to do?” “That was really rude mum, of you to put me in time out.” “Stupendous means stupid good.” “You mop with a mop, do you broom with a broom, or sweep with a sweep?” “John the …

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High Butt Pressure

My poor sons were raised in an adult foster home so they have some rather peculiar perspectives on life. Yesterday I was taking residents’ blood pressures when one of my boys said, “Did you just say blood pressure? All these years I thought you’ve been saying ‘butt pressure’.” ____________________________________ One of my residents, Judy, was …

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