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"Last Blog Standing" starts riiight....now! Yes, it's time to steal a few more jokes from my father-in-law (F.I.L.). For those of you who might be new here, he used to write for Alan King, Milton Berle and Jonathan Winters, just to name a few. And all...

A TANTRUM FOR BUTTER I had a funny experience I wanted to share with you. I live in northern India, just outside Delhi, and last week, my sister-in-law and her two daughters visited me. Her youngest daughter is eighteen months old. I was in the kitchen...

Alabama has turned hundreds of pregnant women into felons for using drugs — even when they’re legal and the kids turn out fine. CASEY SHEHI’S SON JAMES WAS BORN in August 2014, remarkably robust even though he was four weeks premature. But the maternity...

BY SPRING of my internship year I was exhausted, I’d gained 10 pounds, and my periods had stopped. I assumed that months of 36-hour hospital shifts fueled by coffee and vending machine candy had finally taken their toll. But when summer arrived...

Cross posted @ the Atheist Oasis BABE or BABY, n. A misshapen creature of no particular age, sex, or condition, chiefly remarkable for the violence of the sympathies and antipathies it excites in others, itself without sentiment or emotion. There have...