As a heavy metal ‘hair-band’ fan, who hit the dreaded teenage years in the eighties, this will seem a surprising series for me to write. I was used to the “shouting at the devil” of…
In some houses the phrase, “Wait until your father gets home!” was a familiar mantra. Not in mine. When the eyes of God were upon you in my house…it was Mom. She was the owner…
My first experience with ‘Women’s Lib’ came when I was around seventeen years old. My boyfriend at the time was a young man who hadn’t annoyed me that much…yet, but he was, in a word,…
I have always harbored a dislike of the incredible Joanne Woodward. Not as an actress or a person, mind you, simply because of an interview that I saw long ago where Joanne was speaking about…
“Mommy, what’s reptile dysfunction?” “A crocodile with a limp, honey.” From the very beginning, some of the most “interesting” words that I have heard have come out of my daughter’s mouth. Even at one month…
I never used to read the newspaper; it usually just made me sick as a dog. My grandfather used to read the ‘Obits’ just to see if he was in there (our hometown was THAT boring).…
Growing up in the Litchfield Hills, I was an avid audience to a great many humorous moments. I was part of a wonderful family living in horrific winter weather that made me feel like I…
Leaving the world of Yankee-dom behind – tired of the ridiculous amounts of snow that made us into depressed, Vitamin-D deprived zombies – my daughter and I set out on the road to explore new…
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