Early that week, my friend Vince had casually asked our family to dinner for Saturday night….

(Not Surprised, p. 183)

I cannot imagine what will happen, but I am prepared for the worst, and by that I mean I shave my armpits…

A sign on my home office door says, "Creative People Don't Have a Mess; They Have Ideas Lying Around Everywhere"....

Had I not been kicked to the curb at 56, I might not be living my best life now in my third act — eight years later.

Everyone needs both more and less stuff

The pandemic Zoom brought me to a daily minyan, and the minyan brought me deeper into Judaism.

My dad’s recliner sits smack in the middle of my sister’s house.… it’s this ugly, murky blue color, the kind of blue that goes with absolutely nothing . . .

My fantasy was to escape from the corporate grind. After a taste of freedom and months of hare-brained schemes, I begged to be captured again.

Nothing is Off Limits

Award-winning humor blog about the Weight Watchers journey

My parents said they’d move the TV from the living room up to our room, which actually made me more nervous. If this tonsil operation was such a small deal, why was there such a huge payoff?

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I’m jealous of the hussy who speaks to my husband from his dashboard. . . .

The most irritating thing about the man in my driver’s seat is not that he won’t ask for directions. It’s that he won’t ask for the toilet.