Worn Ragged: Dispatches from the Tundra

Old Buster: "I need some batteries for my hearing aids." Mom: "What's that, dear?" OB: "Batteries for my hea...

I've spent the last week or so as a near-constant visitor to a hospital urology ward. So many poor old busters with leaky plumbing, you ...

A person actually said out loud today "Your mother is right." That person was talking about me. I am a mother. Someone depends on ...

Today, a male person wrote an article about why hiring women is not just the right thing to do but actually makes business sense for his com...

Today I went up to the university to listen to David Frum. That I did this on purpose and with some excitement tells you a lot about where w...

Today our childhood babysitter came by the parental condo to write up a new will and some personal directives for the aged relatives. If t...

I was going to write about band camp and how I am going there in one more day and how I will stay there for three days and how there will be...