Now that I find myself back in the Windy City (and it’s welcoming me back with a windy – and frigid – vengeance I must say), I now have the need for the necessary “unbreakable” umbrella. Do they exist? My opinion is, if you live in Chicago and use the same umbrella for an entire… Read more…

I’ve been wearing eyeglasses since I was six years old. I had no idea that one day being “four-eyes” was a stylish statement. Even though my butterfly glasses in my opinion, were quite fabulous, at the time the other first-graders didn’t really think so. Well, apparently my tortoise-shell spectacles that I break out in the… Read more…

Every once in a while, I’m being taken back to the “olden days”. When I was little, my parents would allow me to play at their office while they worked. My favorite project was to write a novel on their office typewriter. No, I never did complete that novel – it was a bit ambitious… Read more…