Someday when I retire, I’d like it to be on my terms. I’d like not to be laid off or given the “choice” of being reassigned to the e-mailroom at half the salary, or shown the proverbial door in any number of ways companies dispose of older workers while trampling on their dignity. So I…
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It has been brought to my attention that I am a moron. For the most part, I welcome feedback to things that I write, though I prefer it to be of the gushing, fawning variety and anything critical to come from the people I love, such as the above. I developed this thin skin when…
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Lately, parenthood has become a race. With one child going to high school in the fall and the other starting junior high, it’s like we’re trying to pack in all the fun before it’s too late and both kids are too embarrassed to associate with us any longer. At least this is what we hear…
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I may not have remembered where I was 40 years ago when man first lanced on the moon. And I can pretty much guarantee that by next week, I will have forgotten all the circumstances surrounding Michael Jackson’s death, regardless of the fact that I spent roughly 150 hours watching CNN’s coverage of it. But…
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Until about an hour ago, I thought the meanest thing my husband and I had ever done to our son Alec was not buying him a dog. But according to an article in Social Science Quarterly – What? You don’t read that? – we have also given him a terrible burden to bear. A friend…
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