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The older I get, the more I think about my age, specifically how much I’ve accrued. Tomorrow will be my eighth birthday ending in a zero - 80 … eighty … EIGHTY! Omigawd, that’s old. Or is it? Look at my contemporary, Queen Elizabeth, who just turned 81. ...
One of the most uncomfortable jobs a mother has to do is explain where babies come from. At least it was when I was actively mothering. Today, all a kid has to do is watch MTV or cruise the Internet to get the general idea, and if they can’t read yet ...
This week marks 30 years I’ve been offering this column with its grins and gripes, rants and raves, triumphs and tears. After years of housewifery when I was content to do nothing more than watch the soaps and wait for my hamburger to thaw, I was ...
When the phone rang at 3 a.m., I knew it was bad news. Good news never comes at 3 in the morning. In a voice so soft I could hardly hear him, my brother said, "She’s gone." After 96 years, nine months and 17 days, my mother had drawn her last breath an ...
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