This is Peanut, Jeff and Monika’s number one doxie. I’m writing about dachshunds this month…
Humor, Wit and Wisdom
From the end of September through mid-October, I was on baby watch in Omaha, waiting…
Saussure’s diagram for the word as sign = signifier ("a-r-b-r-e" or "a-r-b-o-r") + signified (the…
What’s it gonna be? Cold or warm? (Illustration by George Foster) My husband and I…
Very corny jokes, courtesy of Ree Drummond, The Pioneer Woman: What do you call a…
Mary Helen at Yankee Stadium. I’ve been watching a lot of baseball lately—these past few…
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Mary Helen in front of the Hutong Culture Inn, Beijing. By the time you read…
As a writer, I have been extremely lucky to work with a brilliant editor at…
Me, I seem to remember most of my dreams. Why, I can tell you dreams…
When we last saw our heroine, I was checking into the neurosurgical ICU at a hospital…
With one short question I can determine the physical, emotional, and financial state of a…
This will have to be a three-parter. I was at my sister’s house, for my…
We had just returned from a week in Florida, and I was feeling a little…
THE KEY TO WINNING AN an extra 50 million dollars is hidden somewhere in this article. The word “key”…