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I'm approaching a big deadline, so instead of the traditional blog today, I wanted to share a few items of news: --Wanted to remind you to please sign up for my newsletter! (You can do this by clicking the "Join My Newsletter"  button on the very top of the Home page here. My next newsletter [...]

My local grocery store has recently undergone a huge remodel. Shopping has become more stressful--and more decadent--as we are confronted with the largest array ever of any kind of edible product imaginable. We are blessed and over blessed to have a worldwide market of products at our fingertips. But that's a different topic entirely--telling you [...]

My mom's glass is on the left; one of the ones I just bought, on the right. Long- and short-stemmed versions. When my mom was a newlywed, she worked the election polls. I never really asked her what she did there, probably sign voters in, etc. As a result, she got paid in...glasswear! She was [...]

I picked my 19-year-old son up from college recently, only to discover that my sweet, clean-shaven boy had grown a big, bushy beard. "Who are you, the Unabomber?" I asked when he got into the car. I'm exaggerating a little, I suppose, but I kid you not when I say his beard was growing halfway [...]