Small Talk: Money aside, this work life has paid off
I offer a small crumb of comfort to any recent graduates out there, staring at the want ads and scratching your heads.
Jean Gillette
Small Talk: How to shut down a (spider) web site
I’m not sure how long this wonderful discovery will last, but for at least 24 hours my backyard patio remains spider- and web-free.
Small Talk: No longer fighting the good fright
For years, I have scolded anyone who started the holidays a bit early. This year, I crumbled. I had a pumpkin spice latte.
Small Talk: The devil is in the dish towels
All I ask is that my matching dish towels be used as dish towels — not oil rags, dog dryers, or juice mopper-uppers.
Small Talk: Spoonful of sugar is the medicine?
The word is that there is research ongoing on treating disease with sugar. All I can say is “Serve it up, please!”
Small Talk: Getting a read on the new kids
In my library job, nothing is more hilarious and adorable than the new crop of kindergartners.
Small Talk: Lessons in aftermath of Sept. 11
In the long, painful days after the 9/11 attacks, I needed to find my own truths on which to rebuild our threatened world.
Small Talk: Giving kids the runaround
We don’t need to worry about power plants or even those big windmills. We have a bottomless source of energy under our noses.
Small Talk: If it ain’t broke, just wait
I don’t believe in ghosts and I’m not superstitious. But I am certain that appliances have minds of their own, and they can smell fear.
Small Talk: Hair, there and everywhere
I brushed my daughter’s Siberian husky yesterday, and I am certain I have never seen so much hair come off one animal.
