Small Talk
New gold standard
I have become an urban legend. Not like the vanishing hitchhiker or the hook in the side of the car door or even Paul Bunyan. But I still find it a bit unsettling.
Don’t blame climate for fair-weather fan-dom
This year’s Winter Olympics were great, but they left me ever more painfully aware of what a pathetic, card-carrying, fair-weather fan I am.
It’s a woof life
Too much good weather has forced Jean Gillette to once again dip into her archives.
Are we still getting ‘jiggy’ with it?
As 2014 rolls in, I was immediately concerned that my slang would need a serious update in order for me to stay cutting-edge hip.
Wild kingdom at her fingertips
January. The mandatory time for reflection on life and lessons learned.
Scanner rage
Road rage is old news. I suffer from scanner rage.
Number of new cocktail ingredients is sobering
It is a sad sign of the times, but apparently I am not drinking seriously enough these days. That doesn’t mean I need to drink more. It means that since I last mixed a cocktail, a whole new closet full of flavors and strange beverages have become a bartender’s staples. I thought technology was the […]
New holiday tradition is going to the elves
It’s time to break out all the Christmas traditions, stories, fables and such, and it makes me wish I still had little ones.
Write, revise and reunite
Sometimes, emails and texts can be a dicey area. You can answer immediately, but that’s unwise. Parents generally use the luxury of several versions before they push the send button, and rule No. 1 is “Never, ever send your first draft.”
Reality is so annoying
When we made the impulse decision to buy a hot tub, all I could think about were long soaks chatting with friends and sipping wine. Reality is so annoying.
