Women who don makeup before heading to the gym are suffering from traumatic brain injury. This is truly unfair. Just because someone does something incredibly stupid doesn’t mean they're incredibly…
I wrote a poem about my son today. I’ve been working on it for three days, including about an hour this morning. I’m ready to hear what people think. Suggestions?…
Some days, I don’t feel like going to the gym. On those days, I think of Ann Coulter. Ann is a decade older than me (even with all that plastic…
In the recent Boston Marathon bombing and the subsequent death and apprehension of the alleged bombers, we did not turn on our television once. All of my news came via…
My daughter teaches me something new every day. Today she reminded me that if given the choice between walking on the sidewalk or the more precarious curbing, the curbing is…
I wonder if my librarian and bookseller friends ever use this strategy when attempting to locate a wayward book on a shelf.
I did not like this piece by Jessica Grose in The Daily Beast defending the toddler bikini. I don’t like it. I’m not quite sure how I feel about toddler…
This is a 1929 postcard of the original Protestant Cathedral at Yawgoog Scout Reservation on Wincheck Pond's Thrush Cove, courtesy of The Story of the Yawgoog Trails. I love this…
Less than two weeks until our inaugural Speak Up storytelling event at Real Art Ways in Hartford, CT. May 4 at 7:00 PM. Admission is free. If you plan to attend, please…
