The Place to Take a Humor Break
Vatican Entree FETTUCCINE ALLA PAPALINA INGREDIENTS 1 pound fettuccine 3 eggs 3 tablespoons cream 1¼ cups freshly grated Parmesan cheese* 1 medium onion ¼ cup butter 5 ounces diced or cubed pancetta, or cubed, uncooked […]
Despite it being one of the few free forms of transportation available (along with the elevator and your legs), the escalator is not my preferred way of getting around. If you work downtown, like […]
Fed up with the slowness and expense of modern brain research and anxious to prove that he has an IQ higher than that of Rex Tillerson, LeBron James or all the Clintons and Obamas combined, […]
In the glory days of bel canto, all opera houses in Italy had a casino attached. According to Stendhal’s biography of Rossini, the composer received 200 ducats a month as musical director but five times as much–1,000 […]
The $20 check was written and in an envelope beside me on the passenger’s seat of my Subaru. I was peeling out the driveway when my husband came walking up from the train station, home […]
It was Thursday night, but looming ahead was Saturday and another polite suburban party at which, after a couple of pops and convivial conversation with the husbands, I’d say something that embarrasses my wife in […]
There is one senior citizen activity that I would gladly erase from my calendar if such erasure did not cause big problems: doctor visits. I would start with those registration questionnaires and permission forms that […]
