His Rescue Cat
Upright Hallmark cards and lasagna-stained paper plates cluttered Grandma’s kitchen table. I pulled up the sleeve of Grandpa’s old gray role then let it fall back upon my arm. Bare feet tapped cold white and [...]
Ironing
Today, I tackled my own ironing. Not much these days, but though it’s an infrequent chore I still put it off to the dry cleaner or housekeeper as much as possible. Once started I got [...]
The Gift of Meditation
Intelligence isn’t equal to development; intelligence has to be developed. Just because you’re smart doesn’t automatically make you a perfect or even brilliant human being. Intelligence is a potential, a capacity, and that capacity need [...]
Nerds Rule
Nerd culture; what does it mean to self-identify as a nerd? What I’m about to write is half lighthearted frivolity and half serious…but really, what are the legitimate descriptors of a true nerd? Everyone can [...]
Political Car Sickness
If you’re, like me, one of the people who ingests news with your morning coffee (or reads those banner headlines that pop up on your phone a hundred or so times a day), you too—whatever [...]
Post, post, post-graduate work
Dear Professor Feingold: I hope this letter finds you well and that you are enjoying your retirement. You aren’t going to remember me, but I was in one of your English literature classes in 1998. [...]
No ordinary enjoyment
I was born in Pennsylvania, a place where potato chips are a food group of their own. We could count on just about any store worth its salt carrying chips; some where thick-cut, some were [...]
The Most Delicious of All Deliciousness
I grew up on the East Coast, so I grew up eating steamed crabs. Blue crabs in particular (which turn orange when steamed) are the best crabs there are…but it can be difficult to convince [...]
Lessons Learned
This year, I learned to make love. I realize that’s an odd thing to hear from the owner of a website devoted to all things sexy and romantic, so I’ll allay your fears by telling [...]
Body Type A
When it comes to jeans, everyone has fit issues…or so I discovered in a highly unscientific pool of people I know. My size 0 personal trainer revealed that most jeans cut across her “fat place” [...]
Smile and Keep Moving
Truth and tact is a tricky one. I’m not a fan of telling everything I know. However, there are those amongst us who live for prying open Pandora’s Box with a tire iron and will [...]
A Grave Matter
It took me almost 25 years to go visit my grandfather’s grave. Being neither religiously inclined nor a cemetery visitor, I say goodbye to people I love and remember them in my heart. But [...]
