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Play the Field or Play for Keeps?

Hoops or Hubby?

With the National Basketball Association season winding down and free agent trading time gearing up, I’m considering my options. Should I play the field or play for keeps? Stick with Handsome Hubby or …?

First a Concussion. Then a Cook

Ina Garten and Grandma Ida Helped Too

First I got a concussion. Then I learned to cook. It’s true, but like most truths, there’s more to the story. It actually took a concussion, a TV show, and echoes from the past to get me to care about cooking.

Sartorial Sins of the Flesh

Leggings, Yoga Pants, and Holey Jeans

I may sound old-fashioned, but I think some of today’s lapses in sartorial style are downright sins. The way we dress and adorn ourselves would surely make my mother and grandmother shudder and shriek! In Grandma’s day,

Middle-Aged, Mid-Week Grouchies

7 Terms and Trends that Torment

Nothing’s really wrong, but I’ve got a bad case of the middle-aged, mid-week grouchies. And I need to vent. Read on. You might just relate. You might get a chuckle. At the very least, as my delightful 92-year-old second cousin Marvin used to say, “It couldn’t hurt.”

Endangered! Red Meat Carnivores

Beef Brisket Bye-bye

I come from a long line of now-endangered red meat carnivores. My grandmother made a mean Cornish game hen, but it was her Hungarian goulash and stuffed cabbage (stuffed with ground beef) I most fondly remember. My mother’s signature recipes were chili con carne, roast beef, steak smothered in buttery onions and mushrooms, beef and

Millennials Don’t Give a Sheet

And They Don't Make Their Beds Either!

I couldn’t sleep last night. As I tossed and turned, I read an article that got me in a dither: Millennials don’t give a sheet! That’s right – they are rejecting top sheets. So, of course, I got up on the wrong side of the bed today, and as I made the bed, I decided