My mom died last week, just 10 days before Mother’s Day. This is my first Mother’s Day as an orphan. I am in my 60s, but that’s the way it…
Denise Thiery
She was raised in a household where competitiveness meant who could get the biggest laugh from the rest of the family. Asa result, she has a blended sense of humor from both parents: Her father’s love of words and puns and her mother’s ability to make a risqué double entendre out of just about any statement or situation. In her free time, she belongs to a walking/hiking club and is a genuine tree-hugging nature freak. Given the current “me too” movement, she never hugs the tree without first asking its permission.
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I've noticed that American women always seem to be charmed by a man with a foreign accent. It doesn't have to be any particular accent, or even a genuine one.…
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I grew up in the kind of small, sleepy, Midwestern town that comedians joke about. You may have heard the joke. “If my doctor told me that I had only…
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There appears to be a vast difference between the form and function of men's underwear versus women's underwear. Men's underwear fulfills the basic purpose of underwear, in that it protects…
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MY AGING BRAIN: A FLEA MARKET OF USELESS INFORMATION When I was a schoolgirl, I absorbed information effortlessly. Newly acquired data rolled into my brain, where it was instantaneously arranged…
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October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Next to skin cancer, breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among American women. One in eight women will develop invasive breast…
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I’m a hiker. After 30 years of hiking, I thought I had seen everything, until I saw the man with no pants. Yep, a forest flasher... in a public park.…
