The Place to Take a Humor Break
When we buried my mother’s ashes, my sister and I tucked a pack of cigarettes into the urn vault. Mom literally had been a diehard smoker—she died of complications from COPD—and we figured she’d be […]
Yeah, yeah, men and women are different. Just witness the current brouhaha in some states over separate bathrooms based on which body part you use to tinkle. But when you think about it, while there […]
I think I may have officially become an old fogey. Why? Because I find myself uttering, “What’s this world coming to?” with increasing frequency. I remember our parents saying that about the Beatles, hippies and […]
Our local adult education organization offers a pretty diverse assortment of classes, some of which Hubs and I have taken. For example, together we learned how to roll our own sushi, he took yoga for […]
If you watch TV, you know what I’m talking about: the relentless barrage of ads for prescription and over-the-counter medications to treat virtually every condition known to (wo)man. In fact, the Nielsen Company estimates there’s […]
At midlife, sometimes I feel like a car that’s out of warranty – that point at which things inevitably start to go awry. You know – leaks, lubrication problems, excessive overheating, smoke from the tailpipe, […]
When someone with as loose a grasp on the mother tongue as Sarah Palin creates words like “squirmish” and “refudiate,” I feel a hankerin’ to add to our vocabulary, too. It bein’ an election year […]
If you’re a baby boomer, you first knew SPAM® as that slime-covered meat product in the blue can. Since Al Gore invented the Internet, however, we’ve become all too well acquainted with the truly inedible […]
You can’t make this stuff up. The weird stuff that some scientists choose to study never ceases to amaze me (and provide blog fodder). Here’s some research that may having you shaking your head—either in […]
Ah, science. In the “strange but true” category, here are some research results that may have you scratching your head: According to this study, women who have unprotected sex are happier and mentally sharper than […]