Categories Archives

in Family

Weekend Chow-Wow: Honey Toast Cafe

Our weekends usually include one or two (who am I kidding? SEVERAL)  meals out. I bid adieu to all culinary constraints and indulge without - thinking about - the bulge. So, from here on out begins the  Weekend Chow-Wow series - it's a Pow-Wow for foodies. I'll record our weekend's gorging, binge eating, face stuffing, food sampling indulgences. Maybe through ...

No Tall Tales Here

Let's start at the very beginning, a very good place to start... Chapter 1: The Quest to Conquer I entered this realm a rather tiny baby. My mother, somewhat concerned, made several visits to the pediatrician who assured her that as an adult, I would be taller than my mom, barely five feet tall herself. Thirty five years later I, quite ...

Seems egghausting, if you ask me!

Yeah, I know it's not even close to Easter and I'm pulling out the corny egg puns. But I wanted to lead with a joke. Like this one: Did you hear about the company that pays women employees so they can freeze their eggs? That almost sounds like the start of a sexist joke. What it purports to be, though, ...

One man down every night

It’s something Ranjit and I love to do together: watch TV at night. Specifically, watch TV where bad guys are chased and captured. The scenarios pop up with regularity - the fearless and indefatigable CIA agent, the bad guy who is Arab, Russian or Chinese, top-secret files and classified documents all over the place and the sounds ...
MEET SUSAN

I love words. But you probably figured that out by now, considering this website essentially collates my words on the web. Read More…