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, […]
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.
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, […]
Life With Harmony the Cat
DISCLAIMER: The opinions expressed below in no way correspond to the opinions of the human who typed this. I typed it because I am the only creature in the house who has opposable thumbs. Furniture […]
The Accidental Prima Donna
Singing opera is not for sissies. Take, for example, the opera Tosca by Puccini. This show is filled with opportunities for stage accidents and other disasters. It includes two murder scenes, one with a knife […]
Stan’s Birthday and Who Cares?
I have a love-hate relationship with riddles and brain teasers. On the one hand, I’m not very good at solving them, especially if I am expected to do it fast. On the other hand, I […]
Eve Writes Her Memoir
How I Ended Up East of Eden[1] by Eve What was I thinking? It isn’t as though we didn’t have enough to eat. We had a whole smorgasbord there in Eden, made up of all […]