Dad called me at work today. He put his cell phone on speaker, and said LISTEN TO THIS! I heard: You’re bouncing on the bed.You’re bouncing on the bed.You’re bouncing on the bed.…

Anybody else find their desire to eat healthily totally at odds with their desire to eat cheaply?   Wallet or waistline?  They get trimmer or fatter in parallel, I find, which is not…

Those first nights when we brought you home, I found that though you slept in a cradle at our feet, I could not easily get out of our bed to fetch you when…

A friend and I were talking over lunch last week about how passionately anti-American Idol we are.   OK, let me go wipe off the tomatoes that I just got pelted with, and…

I was exasperated that they gave me the outspoken racist kid in the same cabin as the extra shy and tremendously hyper black kid.  I felt like I had so much that I…