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I’m not even going to pretend this time that you guys are here to read my writing.  I’ve finally accepted that the real reason my blog stays in business (albiet making no money) is because of the funny crap my husband says.  I really need to trademark...

Have you ever been followed on the street by a crazy person shouting things at you? In a big city with crowded sidewalks? It happened to my son – fortunately – when he was thirteen. He didn’t look thirteen, but he also didn’t look old enough to drive...

My hilarious friend Lisa is what many would label a doggy fur mom. Some people have issues with fur moms — women who love their doggies as much as if they were human babies — but I don’t have a problem with them. You know why? Because I get it. Dogs...

T   here he is on the ice before the NHL All-Star Game in 1988, taking slap shots beside Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux. He’s there at Michael Jordan’s first charity golf tournament in the Bahamas, staying up into the wee hours to best...

Black Lake by Johanna Lane A modern family living in the husband’s familial crumbling and ancient Irish estate run out of money and open the house to the public as a tourist attraction. They move out of the big, damp house and into a tiny cottage...