Coke is in a tailspin, McDonald’s is dying, a star football player retires after one year of play, Apple offers twenty five TV channels for $30-$40 and SXSW is now a tech, not a music, festival. Dude, what happened to my country? If you’re expecting the past to come back, if you’re lamenting the loss […]

My mother was a bad cook and I can barely make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Greetings from Snowbird, Utah where I endured a muscle cramp standing still and am still feeling the pain one day later. That’s right, I was minding my own business, luxuriating in the landscape, and I leaned back ever […]

They talk on the phone, turn on the television for news and poke at touch screens. We went to SUCH a good restaurant yesterday! I found Wilma & Frieda’s Cafe on Yelp. Save me the criticism. That’s the new America, backlash. That’s how people establish their identity, by criticizing success and going against norms, especially […]

Do I have to sacrifice my seat? As it was I didn’t get the seat I wanted, I wanted to leave on the 11:45, but that plane sold out before the travel agent could jump on it. So here I am flying two hours later and the fortysomething mother implores me to give up my […]