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Would You Do That To A Puppy?

I was sitting on the sofa petting my dog.  It had been a bad day, and I was thinking how much better I felt stroking his fur and feeling his…

A Stabbing Pain in the Neck

[sg_popup id=”2131″ event=”onLoad”][/sg_popup] There comes a time in any decades-long marriage, no matter how solid, loving, and in-for-the-long haul when you want to stab your beloved in the eye with…

New Year Same Me

With the new year comes a whole slew of social media posts, blogs, and articles titled a variation on “New Year, New You.”  These are, I suppose, intended to be…

Stay-Away-Muffs

[sg_popup id=”2131″ event=”hover”][/sg_popup]Considering the fact that I listen and talk for a living, I sure do get tired of listening and talking. By the end of the week, I reach…

BOOK REVIEW — Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking

[sg_popup id=”2131″ event=”hover”][/sg_popup] Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking People have been telling me to read “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World…

I Left You Alone for Ten Minutes Part 2

[sg_popup id=”2131″ event=”onLoad”][/sg_popup] As you will recall from last week’s column, I left my husband alone for ten minutes at a street fair in South Carolina, 200 miles away from…

I Left You Alone for Ten Minutes

[sg_popup id=”2131″ event=”onLoad”][/sg_popup]I didn’t grow up with pets.  My father has a basic contempt for any critter that doesn’t have the sense to be born a human being.  My mother…

Ode to Flannel Sheets

[sg_popup id=”2131″ event=”onLoad”][/sg_popup] Ode to Flannel Sheets “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,” And beauty occureth not without a good night’s sleep. Therefore without sleep, there is no truth, Only a…

U.S.S. Nightmare

[sg_popup id=”2131″ event=”hover”][/sg_popup]I’m not a huge fan of scary things.  Probably because my day to day life is scary enough.  As a lawyer, I’m one of the first people that…

My Superpower

“If you could have any superpower, what would it be?” [sg_popup id=”2131″ event=”hover”][/sg_popup]Of course, I’m not going to get a superpower any time soon, but it’s an interesting question to…

Book Review — Bullspotting

[sg_popup id=”2131″ event=”onLoad”][/sg_popup] Bullspotting: Finding Facts in the Age of Misinformation “Bullspotting” by Loren Collins is a book that attempts to hold a lens of hard, cold logic to an…

Cleanliness is Next to Impossible

The biggest problem with cleaning your house beyond a swipe with a paper towel is that you realize the level of filth you’ve been living in. There was a stain…