Have you ever wondered how much of your life you waste doing stupid things? I read the average person spends 25 years sleeping, one year cleaning and three months in traffic. We spend the equivalent of one year in the bathroom. The time I recently wasted trying to resolve utility issues pales ...
If you’ve read this column, you may recall me writing in February about someone I met on an overseas trip back in the 1990s. His name was Alfio, and he was from Italy. We became pen pals but lost touch after a year or so of correspondence via good old-fashioned letters (now referred to as ...
You know that moment of sheer panic when you think you’ve lost your cellphone? It’s the one followed by relief once you realize it was in the bottom or your purse or in your back pocket or just about anywhere except in someone else’s purse or back pocket. How did we ever function before ...
There’s been a movement at restaurants recently to raise servers’ wages and eliminate tips.Some servers are in favor of this, while others say they actually earn less than before the “no tipping” policy started.Of course, some restaurants who have tried this raised their prices, citing ...
I’m back from Italy and had a terrific trip full of beautiful sights, delicious food and nice people. My fellow travelers and I had many laughs, and some of them had to do with cultural differences in things like plumbing.You have to pay to use public bathrooms in some places, and this gets ...
If all has gone according to plan, you will be reading this on my birthday while I am enjoying some Chianti in Florence, Italy.I know they have smartphone apps to translate languages nowadays. Call me old school. I crawled over furniture in my storage unit to reach a box containing my ...
