It’s graduation party season. Even if you don’t have a graduate in your home this year, your friends and relatives likely do. It’s so much fun to celebrate the graduate and think about the exciting, limitless future they have ahead of...

  Just days ago, I blew out candles on a cake celebrating my latest trip around the sun. Birthdays are fun, especially if you love attention. You get calls and texts from family and friends, social media posts from random acquaintances, maybe...

The 10 plagues of anxiety (and why overthinking might be our real tradition) Today, as I was clocking in for my shift at the shpilkes factory, I realized what a burden it must be for you reading about my anxiety so often. With so many of you telling...

  You might recall one of the most horrific accidents in our nation’s history. Though it happened in the 1970s we still feel its implications today. What had the potential to be an epic tragedy spun into one of the biggest successes in the...

  Last month, “Saturday Night Live” great Amy Poehler won the first ever Golden Globe Award in the podcasting category. On her show, “Good Hang,” she chats it up with her Hollywood friends. The June 2025 episode with Poehler’s former...

The Yiddish word haimish means cozy, homey, comfortable. It’s an adjective describing a noun, giving more information about a person, place or thing.  The word inspires a great approach to this cold, gloomy season. You’ve heard of Hot Girl Summer....

  This is it you guys, we’re in the home stretch of 2025. How should we wrap it up? Do we do our very best at everything to finish the year strong? Or do we sit back and coast by because we’re exhausted from the previous 11 months of being...

Kids these days. I have no idea what they’re talking about. They have their own language, and I don’t get it. Do you? Help! Who can figure out this secret language? Other teens.  So, I turned to some of the best I could find and did some investigative...

It’s so quiet. My house is so very quiet now that both kids are young men away at college.  I’ve woken up every morning for the last couple of weeks thinking about the number of days left having them live in our house full time. It’s like a...

True story. Recently I walked into a public restroom and saw a young mother with a little boy about 2 years old. He was rolling around on the ground — the bathroom floor! — looking under the occupied stall. I asked whether they were in line, and the...

I’ve got good news and bad news. Good news first.  Ed Sheeran says you’re perfect. Aretha Franklin thinks you’re wonderful. Billy Joel loves you just the way you are.  The bad news – someone out there disagrees. Don’t be paranoid, we’re...

Weird weather and its accompanying annoying allergies. It’s time to do some spring cleaning. Not just in your house, but also in your soul. There’s a lot of heavy stuff built up in there, and this is your chance to clean it out and start fresh.  In...