When businesses and organizations started reducing hours and services in response to the COVID-19 situation, I like many of you started...

This past week, I came to talk to a group of high school students with disabilities about Social Security, Medicaid,and Medicare Work...

My son occasionally prefaces disclosures with: “I’ve got some good news and some bad news. Which do you want first?” His dad and I...

In initial episode of Netflix’s new series, AJ and the Queen, Rupaul’s character, Robert (stage name “Ruby Red”) becomes a victim of his...

When I was a child, my grandfather taught me to play checkers. He liked the game and was quite good at it. For variety, he also taught me...

Does anyone play the game Jenga™ at home? Once the internet time has run out, it’s a favorite with my son, who enjoys a dexterity...

In this classic Sesame Street skit, Bert’s favorite program, The Wonderful World of Pigeons, has been replaced by a large capital “H”...

In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the heroine asks “What is in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as...

The Wall Street Journal ran a charming article on the rise of the use of Scottish dialect on Twitter. For those of you with a...

It snowed the day before Halloween, where I live. The day after, CVS and Walgreens had their Santa displays already up. Last week, I...

Now that he has navigated Halloween successfully—his costume received lots of complements and he picked up enough candy to hold him until...

The animated show Captain Underpants (created by cartoonist Dav Pilkey) aired a Halloween episode earlier this week. For those of you...

My husband was out walking a couple of evenings ago when he passed a cyclist on a tandem bike in our neighborhood. The cyclist, full of...

My son’s Little League team won their game last Sunday. (If you do Little League, you will know about “Fall Ball”). Despite a...

The father of one of my son’s schoolmates approached me on a field trip. He mentioned that he was thinking, maybe, of attending one of...

By her own account, Meghan Trainor’s song “All About That Base”, makes a statement that a woman with a large, well, “base” can still be...

In an attempt to catch me up in the ongoing video game revolution that I have mostly missed, my husband has educated me about certain...

My niece requested for her birthday a gift certificate from a certain clothing store she “frequents”. The quote marks are because she...

My family and I are currently enjoying The Inbestigators (indicating the best investigators) as our evening escapism. The Australian TV...

Last week, my family and I took a trip to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. We drove. (This, by the way, accounts for the missed blog last...