You’ve seen those social media postings of photos captioned with cute sayings like “Is it Friday yet?”Or you might be old enough to remember those little posters that adorned many a young girl’s bedroom wall (or possibly your office cubicle) with a kitten hanging by her paws beneath the ...
“Do you remember where you were when …?” I always find answers to that question interesting.I will never forget the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, when movers were carrying furniture out of my apartment in Charleston, W.Va., en route to my new home in Raleigh, N.C.We didn’t have the ...
Fall is near the top of my list for favorite season. One of the reasons is football. How could I not be a Steelers fan having grown up in Southwestern Pennsylvania in the 1970s?When I was a kid, we played football in the front yard every day, and we girls played organized flag football ...
The movie “Jaws” traumatized me as a child.I eventually recovered, but still begged off when one of my best friends urged me to learn scuba diving with him. I cited my fear of being eaten alive. He countered with the fact that sharks prefer to bite snorkelers at the surface (me) rather that ...
Fall has officially arrived. That means it’s time to stop worrying about all of the projects I wanted to get done around the house this summer and instead spend my time watching hours of college and pro football.Actually, I can do that guilt-free this autumn because I completed all of the ...
The passing of Labor Day means our hazy, hot, humid swimming pool days will soon disappear.The upshot is we will no longer be barraged with ads and articles urging us to lose weight because, “Bikini season is right around the corner!” Bikini season ended for me years ago. Still, I did ...
