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16 Things Every New Parent Will Discover

Last week, the husband's brother and wife (to clarify, his brother's wife!) had a precious baby girl. She's far away in India and while we wish we could squish her and eat her cheeks up, we have little choice but to be content with Skype chats and pictures. Huberoo has been dispensing free advice to the newly-minted parents - fulfilling ...

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…