A Holiday for Non-Favorite Children?
It’s obvious to anyone who has been reading my work in the last week or so that I have had family relationships on my mind. Mother’s Day can do that to a person. The good […]
It’s obvious to anyone who has been reading my work in the last week or so that I have had family relationships on my mind. Mother’s Day can do that to a person. The good […]
Before I go on to something useful, I would like to take a little time to talk about firstborn children. I speak from personal experience and from watching The History Channel too much. Firstborns do […]
A caregiver requires a steady hand, nerves of steel and, as Cathy Sikorski proves, a well-developed sense of humor. In her first book, a memoir entitled Showering With Nana: Confessions of a Serial Killer…Caregiver (HumorOutcasts […]
Dear Lord, please forgive me for my outbreak of foul language. When my sexy neighbor asked if I’d like him to mow my lawn I shrieked, “The only person who mows my F$#@*%&G lawn is […]
In the early part of August, 2012, I got an interesting phone call while at work. Daughter: Mom, if you had to hear some big news, would you want to hear it on the phone […]
My mother equated food with love and food that she cooked for her children with mother’s love. The more food, the more calories, the more trouble, the more time involved, the more pans used, the […]
My Mom is going with us on a trip to Europe. My sister took a Viking River cruise last year and my Mom was green around the gills about it. I asked my sister why […]
Exciting news from Match.com, the world’s largest online match-making service. Since our launch in 1995, our goal has been to help men and women find their perfect someone. We have now found matches for several […]
Once when my wife, my 5-year-old stepson, and I took a late-afternoon walk, we paused to enjoy how long our giant shadows were. That’s when my stepson stepped into the middle of my shadow and […]
Let’s face it. We’re all busy. Life now is much harder than it was back in the days before cell phones, the internet and Roomba vacuum cleaning robots. There’s barely enough time in the day […]