Life in the Time of COVID: Decluttering
It isn’t easy being stuck at home most of the day. Unfortunately, during the current pandemic, that is precisely what many of us have been forced to do. We can only hope that we are […]
Author: Kathy Minicozzi
Kathy Minicozzi is an opera singer turned aspiring writer, who lives somewhere in New York City. In other words, she's weird, but harmless. She is the author of "Opera for People Who Don't Like It," in which she turns the world of opera and its performers upside down while, at the same time, making it understandable to non-opera lovers and making everyone laugh.
Life in the Time of COVID: Zoom
Eric Yuan is a benefactor of the human race. Who is Eric Yuan, you ask? He is the inventor of the videoconferencing software app that we all know and love as Zoom. Where would we […]
How Not to Do Housework: Laundry
Those who read the first installment in my instruction series on avoiding housework already know that I have a love-hate relationship with chores, mostly hate. My first chapter had to do with avoiding cleaning the […]
How Not to Do Housework
I have a simple relationship with housework. I don’t like it and it doesn’t like me. Take my floor, for instance. When I look at it (which I try not to do any more than […]
I’m So Old I EVEN Remember
Wringer Washing Machines Yes, my mother had one of these for years, until the glorious day when she got her first automatic washer. You couldn’t just put clothes into a wringer washing machine, walk away, […]
I’m So Old I Remember …
ROTARY TELEPHONES Today, you can “dial” a telephone by pushing buttons. And most of us have cellphones, making it easy to get in touch with someone faster than you can say “android.” In the old […]
More Family History
One of my most colorful ancestral relatives was my mother’s fifth cousin twice removed, Hildi Heulenschrei, the opera singer. Hildi was born plain Hildegard Schmidt in some little Dorf in Bavaria, around 1890. Nobody knows […]
Harmony the Cat’s Simple Rules of Human Behavior
1. The human shall get up out of bed at whatever obscenely early hour the cat decides he/she is hungry. There are no exceptions. 2. The human shall not put the cat on a diet. […]
Child-Proof Food Containers
Okay. I can understand why medicine bottles are made hard to open. Children get into everything, and we don’t want them to experiment with medications they have no business taking. So yes, medicine bottles should […]
You Know It’s Time to Declutter When …
In every life, there comes a time when one has to get rid of some of those possessions that have, over the years, multiplied like oversexed rabbits. Oh, but all those things have a use, […]