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This was a tough morning. I could point to a couple of triggers: I have a column that I need to finish today and my husband, who has been gone for two days, is making a 7-hour drive home. His return is joyfully anticipated, but as a professional worry wart I won’t relax until he [...]

I have been making jokes my whole life, even if most of them are only funny to me. I like funny people and I want to be like them. I want them to like me and to think I am funny, too – you know, the kind of general acceptance we all crave and covet. [...]

So we left Chicago after doing a lot of the touristy things that we’ve never done when we’ve been there dozens of times before. I highly recommend doing the touristy shit, even if you live there, because it’s pretty damn cool. On our last full day we wandered over to Wrigleyville, even though the Cubs [...]

Yesterday we were total tourists. We arrived at the Shedd Aquarium just after it opened, so we only had to navigate through a couple of hundred school kids on field trips. As we were leaving just before 1 p.m., there were thousands of pre-teens and other assorted youngsters clamoring to get in. The dolphin show [...]

We left the ‘Noke on Friday, but it feels like the vacation begins today. We drove until we dropped on Friday, then finished the journey Saturday to South Bend, Ind. for a cousin’s wedding. The wedding was lovely, the bride was beautiful, the reception was a blast. Highlight of the reception for me was a [...]

I have become increasingly concerned with what I perceive to be my diminishing intellect. If you have met me or ever read my writing, you may not realize that I have a triple-digit IQ. I do. Really. I used to be considered smart when I was a kid. Those days may be gone forever. With [...]

Never gets cooked. This is a test of photo uploading with the new Droid.

This is a test post from my new Droid X.