As a former dude, it is not lost on me the privilege I used to have. I got paid more for doing the same amount of work as a woman.…
I was at a local thrift store last weekend, looking for items to stock my emergency earthquake preparedness kit. I am proud to say that my kit now contains a…
Hey, it’s me, your favorite pair of black leggings, and we need to have a serious talk. We’ve had some good times. I will never forget the day eight years…
Your first day back in the workforce after decades at home raising a family should not result in your ending up unconscious on the floor in the middle of the…
Women aren’t supposed to hitchhike. It’s too foolish and risky. The first time I hitched, I was in the fourth grade. I stood out on my front lawn and thrust…
“I am not going back to that camp again without breasts,” I told my mother. I was late to develop. Everyone else in my sixth grade class seemed to have…
Notable Greek-American Dr. George Papanicolaou did not win a Nobel Prize in Medicine, though he was nominated several times. Instead, he got a 13-cent stamp and name recognition. Women the…
Image source: USA Today Sports I’d like to whine for a little bit, if I may. Coronavirus took something from someone I care about, and it’s just not fair. Now,…
I searched and searched and could not find any. The truth is, I seldom need birthday candles; it had probably been a decade since I last used them. I scavenged…
Now that we’re all under house arrest, I mean voluntary isolation, we have two choices: We can spend our time whining and wine-ing, or we can flex our creative muscles…
It has come to my attention that there is some confusion about how I spent my time in college. While my friends learned to be accountants, engineers, and nurses, what exactly…
The heat that day had been so oppressive that the shower I took to try to cool off just increased the humidity in my house. I turned off the water…
Everyone in my family had a strong opinion about where we should go for my birthday. I don’t know how the Kardashians agree on vacation destinations. But after an onslaught…
“After I put on my bathing suit, you must not look at me until I get into the water.” “Why not?” asked Frog. “Because I look funny in my bathing…
Out on the road the other day, I found the traffic quite light (amazing what a pandemic of congested lungs can do for congested traffic). Within moments I was cruising…
I almost said “OK, Boomer!” to a guy the other day. But the dude is in his late 90s, which is not the boomer generation, and apparently “OK, Greatest Generation!”…
