There are some jokes that are so lame I can’t believe I wasted my time listening to them…yet there’s something about the punch line that...

I hurt my knee this week. So when I was about to go out, my husband suggested I take my trekking stick …just as a precaution. A stick? As...

Every weekend, a woman dressed like one of those Russian nesting dolls stands outside my local grocery store selling a paper that...

Last month I was having a conversation with a British friend who sniffed disapprovingly as he said: “Well this whole business really...

I was standing at a dinner party with a group of women recently when one of them said… (and let me interject here, that the woman was...

It happened at 4:30 on Thursday before Good Friday. A four-day weekend just minutes away. I was in the kitchen unpacking groceries and...

My husband has had a hell of a day. In fact there’s no need for him to even open the front door, he’s so small and weary he can just slip...

Not all that long ago I was riding on the subway and I stood up for a woman, offering her my seat. She fixed me with eyes of steel and...

One day at a photographer’s studio in Paris I saw a picture of a girl who looked exactly like me. It was decades ago but I remember it...

“That reminds me,” my husband says to the guests at the dinner table, “Have you heard the one about the pig and the dog?” …Oh God, please...