Category: general

I hate the beginning-of-the-year-no-money-after-the-holidays feeling. Would give up a body part for a long massage. Preferably my neck. Have power-walked for 20 minutes 2 days in a row at WORK…on the treadmill in the stinky boy’s gym in the basement. Otherwise all power-walking has been on my own new christmas-present-treadmill or outside and I have only missed 2 days so far since Christmas. Go me! Those of you with kids: what’s their bedtime on school nights vs weekend nights? And how old are they? If they’re older than 9 or 11, what time did they go to bed when they...

What job would you never take? What food would you never eat? What place would you never visit? What lie would you never tell? Four quick questions off the top of my head, just to jump-start myself and get the writing juices flowing. People say “Never say never” all the time, because fact is, lots of people say they’ll never do or say something and later find themselves saying or doing that very thing under circumstances they could never have imagined years earlier. “I’ll never be like my dad,” a teenager yells, only to catch himself years later saying the...