I have always been terrified of snakes, bees and stepping on snails with bare feet. Like many people, I also avoid things like dark alleys, horror movies and clowns. However, in the last few days, I have developed a new fear: locker rooms. I never before considered that I should be afraid of locker rooms. […]
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Recently I was walking on the Three Rivers Heritage Trail one weekday morning. It was 8AM and I knew school had already started because I had just passed a group of kids wearing gym clothes. They were following a man, who I assumed to be a P.E. teacher because he had a whistle on a […]
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Mr. and Mrs. Trump, thank you for coming here today to talk about Donald. You know, kindergarten can be a scary place, but I have to say that Donald is a bright boy and very confident in himself. He’s so adorable when he tells the other children that he has a “good brain.” He loves […]
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I have a black eye. Yeah, I didn’t want to talk about it because I didn’t want to admit that I got it by walking into a wall at 5:00AM on Tuesday morning. It’s pretty ugly. Or as my brother said when he I texted a photo to him: “Holy crap!!” I wasn’t going to […]
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Okay, let me get this straight. According to the New York Times article I just read, in the 1960s, the Sugar Research Foundation paid three Harvard scientists to minimize the link between sugar and heart disease and to blame fat instead. Their whitewashed findings were published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine, which […]
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Over Labor Day weekend, my husband asked if he could reach out to some of his colleagues with kids to invite them over. “The pool needs to get used,” he said. “Sure,” I replied, wondering why the 100 laps I swam the day before didn’t count as pool use? Ahem! Anyway, it was late notice […]
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Whoever said that birth is the “miracle of life” never had kids because after those bundles of joy pop out of your lady parts, the real miracle is raising them to be civilized members of potty-trained society. As a dreamy adolescent, I believed that someday I would be a great mother. The basis for this […]
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The first and most important thing about our bike trip from Washington DC to Pittsburgh is that Team Do-Gooders Doing Good raised $6,000 for the South Hills Relay for Life. Woo hoo! Thank you to everyone who supported our ride and generously donated to the American Cancer Society’s life-saving mission. We started at Mile […]
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I was working at Universal Studios on December 1, 1988 when a crazy man approached the security gate and asked to see Michael Landon, who wasn’t there. When the two security guards in the booth turned him away, the crazy man shot and killed them both, then ran into what witnesses believed was the parking […]
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When my son, Michael, was five, he loved to play “soldier.” So when our neighbors, a retired Marine and his wife, invited him to go shopping with them at the local PX, he could barely contain his excitement, especially because they told him it was a place where “only soldiers could shop.” I’m not sure […]
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