I have always hated my birthday. Even as a kid in primary school, I never liked the annual marker of another year gone without enough to show for it. I hate getting older, it freaks me out. I’ve always been a dark person anyways, and…
It is exhausting and under-appreciated work, being a micro-manager. So after decades of dedicating my heart and soul to it, I am throwing in the towel and giving up. This was not an easy decision. I have been micro-managing practically my whole life. I first…
I’m a far cry from being a political junkie. I’d get skewered in any debate about foreign policy, health reform or immigration. But I seem to have been blessed with an idiot savant memory for the personal details of politicians. Like, I can recite the…
Alex, the 16 year old son of my cousin Audrey, has miraculously leapfrogged overnight from a hockey obsessed kid into a handsome, mature and articulate young man. I am one of his millions of Facebook friends so know from his “relationship status” that he has…
Our first family dog, Riley, was a psychotic piece of work. I paid an outrageous amount to an animal therapist who insisted that Riley was not the problem. Rather, it was my lack of leadership skills and my refusal to feed Riley a raw meat…
It is 5:30 am. I am watching my husband pack his suitcase, scrambling to make a 7am flight. For the past three years his work has taken him out of town more than half the time by my conservative estimate. People comment on how tough…
Unlike most people who start a committed relationship, I didn’t come with a past. If there had been an award in high school for “most likely to join a convent”, I would have won hands down. I wish I could report that undergrad was any…
Back in the day, you were doing pretty darn well to make it to the age of 25 what with the risk of being mauled by a saber-tooth tiger, bludgeoned to death in a gladiator fight or having a close encounter with the Black Death….
I nearly gagged this morning swallowing sour chocolate milk. I should have paid closer attention to the expiry date, but instead left it on the shelf for too long. Funny how relationships can be like that too. One day they’re sweet. The next day they’re…
My uncle Nick is a highly respected life actuary. Normally you would not want to get seated beside one at a dinner party (“so, you predict death for a living…FASCINATING!”). But Nick is a ton of fun. He can tell a joke like it’s nobody’s…