The other day I'd been shopping way too long at the Super Center. I was wrestling my two-ton cart around, looking for a check-out lane with less than a MULTITUDE of people in it (biblically speaking). I wanted to get out of the store sometime before the next dawn....
I was signing books after a speaking engagement this week and I was telling the folks how "valuable" the books became once they had my signature in them (clearing throat here). Oh, yeah. Get the author's signature and you can sell those puppies on E-bay for...
I love, love, love whoever it was who invented the marvelous, miraculous FROZEN DINNER. What a genius! I OWE this person. Everyone talks about those fancy ice sculptures. But me? A frozen family-sized lasagna is a thing of beauty to me. Now there's a centerpiece you...
Christmas shopping madness. I did about as much shopping that first week of the shopping season as I could stand. And normally I can stand a lot of shopping. But around that crazy season, I lose a lot of my stamina. Maybe it's because instead of the Christmas spirit,...
I was waiting for my luggage at the airport day before yesterday and I made an interesting observation: I think about ninety percent of travelers have black luggage. If you have a black suitcase on wheels, forget about just reaching out, grabbing it off the belt and...
Have you ever seen that "Survivorman" show? The expert survivor-guy gets dropped into various hostile environments and has to "survive" his way through to get to his pick up spot a week or so later. He has to beat off bears, jaguars and a vicious foot fungus or two....
I have three kids in college this year. The oldest two are boys. Boys tell you nothing. But all three go to the same college, so sending in a girl this year was really like sending a spy into the land. I told Kaley, "You'll be my eyes and ears at college." Of course,...