Burden of Knowledge

It was bad enough spotting the return of the school supplies last week in Target. This week I have to deal with the end-cap displays of Twinkies. To reinforce the return of the crème-filled yellow sponge cakes, the little boy said, in a whisper, and I quote: “Do you know how embarrassing it is to be 9 years old and to have […]

Spell Check Needs to Wise Up

I can happily report that the re-lacing of my favorite rainbow sneakers seems to have done the trick. My navicular bone is doing well again. Confession: I didn’t even know I had a bone named navicular. But, since spell check doesn’t even recognize “navicular” as a word, I don’t feel all that bad. So yesterday […]