TMI
I like initialisms. I use them often in spoken and written word. Initialisms are often mistaken for acronyms. Though they both serve to abbreviate, initialisms and acronyms are as different…
Believe
John, Donald, and I were 12, 8, and 10 when our baby brother Gerald came to us. Thinking back, my parents’ acquaintances probably whispered words like, “mistake” and “accident” when…
Nice & Naughty
“I’m going to give you a phrase. Say the first three words that pop into your mind—no hesitation.” I felt Gary wince. In his defense, he never knows what I’m…
Questions for God
“What do you think God thinks?” When I posed that question to my guy Gary, he raised his eyebrows and gave me his close-lipped, “What kind of question is that”…
To be like 41
I did not know George H. W. Bush. On the occasions I visited Kennebunkport, I did not—as I had hoped to—bump into he and his wife Barbara at Nunan’s Lobster…
Shoe Thankful
There I stood, the week before Thanksgiving, in the middle of the shoe aisle at a Nordstrom’s Rack. I sported a four inch-heeled bootie on one foot, and a different…
The guidelines
My daughter and her husband celebrated their two-year wedding anniversary last week. She gave him a ball cap. He gave her monogrammed napkins. Cotton is the theme for second anniversary…
Swan song
This is my laptop’s swan song—its final project before I put it out to pasture, before it rides off into the sunset, before I erase its memory and fold the…
