When I was a girl, I waited impatiently each day for the mailman (back then it was always a man) to arrive. Not that I was expecting much of anything (short of some important little nugget of heartthrob news from the David Cassidy Fan Club), but the arrival of...

Plenty of you have found yourselves lately having to seek employment again. It’s a grim reflection of the times. And nothing’s quite so demoralizing as looking for work when there’s not much work to be found. Over the past several months of job-searching I’ve run the gamut of disses:...

Cliché or not, I want to talk about resolutions for just a minute. And not because I ever bother with any; I don’t. But because I know that there is at least one person around my house who wouldn’t mind if I resolved to try to clean my house...