My daughter recently announced her engagement and although I knew, of course, this would happen, the news caused my heart to be blown across the prairie landscape of motherhood, like an impetuous tumbleweed of emotions brimming with decades of mothering moments.
Read MoreBut fooldom has many forms, and it would be an injustice to consider all of them simple-minded. We have an entire day dedicated to annual foolery.
Read MoreI know all the tropes about things that get better with age, like cheese and wine. Does anyone else notice that these examples happen in cellars?
Read MoreNow, don’t put down the paper and run out to buy a card for your bestie that reads, “I love you as much as my elastic-waist sweatpants!”
Read MoreWhile my brain was calculating how to quit my fledgling career, I am pretty sure my sister was pondering the criminal ramifications of sororicide.
Read MoreWriting the seemingly direct, but deceptively dangerous, goal, “Lose weight,” after eating a gingerman and a board foot of yule log, followed by a chaser of eggnog, is nothing but hilarious.
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