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 [...]

When my daughter was small, she used to adore chocolate ice cream. We have countless pictures of her as a toddler licking chocolate ice cream cones, the chocolate dripping down her chin and  onto her cute little dress or shirt and shorts. She, however, is oblivious of the mess. She isn't caring about getting the [...]

Life was a lot different before texting. If you are my age (cough cough, old enough to have kids in college), you remember when you were in college and you had to call your parents every Sunday night from the phone hanging on the wall in your dorm room. No privacy and you had to [...]

It’s called Metathesiophobia, fear of change.   Nick Vinetti, the tough-guy detective hero of one of my favorite Lori Wilde books, There Goes the Bride, had it as a kid. Although he really wanted to learn to surf, he was afraid of the water--of sharks, of drowning, of getting snatched up and taken away from [...]

Most authors have a love affair with books and I am no exception. In the past, I managed to contain my stash under my bed. With the advent of the kindle, my stash became mostly virtual, but I still buy paperbacks of books I love. Let's put it this way:  if I became a sudden [...]