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Are you losing your marbles?
Take this five-question test to find out. “Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.”― Steven Wright “If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.”― Edgar Allan...
How to Travel With Your Husband Without Killing Him:
Learn the Travel Lingo “I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” Mark Twain “I love being married. It’s so great to find one special person you want to annoy for the rest...
We Went to See the Saigon Jews and Other Adventures in Vietnam
“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” Susan Sontag “When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” Clifton Fadiman “In the days coming, see many things...
Top Ten Ways to Be a Friend to a Grieving Friend: What I learned from my friends who did everything right
"Grief is the price we play for love." Queen Elizabeth II Two years ago today, my mother passed away. This piece is dedicated to my dear girlfriends who were by my side during my mother's illness and after she died. #10 Don’t do nothing. Don’t worry that you’ll...
What a Couple Million Bucks Will Getcha:
My One-Day Adventure in NYC's (Un)Real Estate Market“I just bought a small condo overlooking the water. The water is in a cup, one floor below my unit.” ~ Jarod Kintz"The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some...
Norwegian Dinner: It begins with a saw
"A miracle has happened on this farm... in the middle of the web there were the words 'Some Pig'... we have no ordinary pig." – Mr. Zuckerman referring to Wilbur, in Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White “After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little...
Turtle Soup for Christmas?
This is the view from Henrik’s childhood home in Norway. Not sure he’s all that impressed with the Ohio River! My daughter, Allison, and her fiancé, Henrik-Olav Osvik, are on their way back to their home in Oslo. Henrik and Allison will celebrate Christmas soon at...
Oh, Tannenbaum
Sibs, ages 2 and 4. I'm the cute one. You may have an elf on your shelf, but at our house, we have a slouch on the couch. That’s me. I remember it so clearly, the shock I experienced that first Christmas home from college. There it stood: bright green,...
I see London, I see France . . .
“Simper ubi sub ubi (always wear underwear).” Andrew Ridings Underwear is the human equivalent of trees’ rings. My daughter wears slingshot kinda underpants—“thongs,” she calls them, a word which evokes in me visions of shower shoes—yet...
Bra (S)traps
"I was the first woman to burn my bra . . . it took the fire department four days to put it out." ~ Dolly Parton~ Like most women in civilized cultures, I began with a training bra. Now, there are training pants and training wheels , which train you to go on...
Exercise: It’s a Hoax
It will not give you energy. It will not make you feel good about yourself. It will make you hungry and tired, and even your ear lobes and toenails will sweat. Sweaty is not...
Never Marry a Thin Man
I bought these Hostess cupcakes for Rick two days ago. They sat on this table for two hours before he opened them. Once he did, it took him 27 minutes to eat them. “I want to lose weight by eating nothing but moon pies, which have significantly less gravity...
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