Well, I did it. I DANCED.  As promised, I turned up the volume on Pink’s “Raise Your Glass” and celebrated the release of my book last week by wiggling, wobbling and nearly falling over while my husband captured it all on video. Bonus for you. Embarrassment for me. After posting it on Facebook, I had […]

I never dance. Ever. I can’t. I’ve got no rhythm or coordination, and even the Hokey Pokey intimidates me. At weddings, I sit, smile, clink my champagne glass, and watch other people wiggle and shimmy with carefree, happy abandonment. But I don’t dance. I’ve always feared what the world would think seeing me flap around […]

I keep seeing those TV commercials that show middle-aged men doing what must be considered middle-aged manly things while the spokesman announces, “this is the age of knowing what you’re made of.” It took me a long time to realize those commercials are selling Viagra, and it will take me longer to understand what erectile […]

“You always smell a bear before you see him,” my father, an avid outdoorsman, once told me. “And if you run into one, make a lot of noise,” he advised. I never expect to run into a bear in my daily suburban life and I would have been as stunned as the other shoppers when […]

No one likes to be suspected of wrongdoing – especially before dawn – but I had an opportunity to contemplate this one morning when I experienced a minor run in with the police. My dog and I are early morning runners. Most mornings, we circle the neighborhood, cover two cul de sacs, then head up […]