A CAT NAMED HARMONY
Living with a cat is a battle of wits. This is true of any cat. All cats are smart, but some are kitty geniuses. One of those is the cat who lives with me, Harmony. […]
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.
Peeling Navel Oranges with Your Hands
There comes a time in the life of every overweight or diabetic person when we have to face the Big D: dieting. To satisfy that craving for something sweet, we find ourselves turning to healthy […]
Computer Games for Cheap People
Computer games are the detours in the highway of life. They are a pleasant way to waste your life while avoiding any of the more productive activities. There is always the excuse that they sharpen […]
MEDICINE COMMERCIALS
Medicine commercials are funny. They aren’t supposed to be funny, but they are. They almost always start in a bucolic-looking setting, with happy, smiling, healthy-looking people doing fun things. The voice-over announcer mentions the name […]
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 […]
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 […]