Women talk a lot more than men. If your wife asks you how your day was, the answer is likely to be: “fine.” That’s it – if there was no police chase, no explosions, no winning lottery ticket and no one died, then there isn’t much to report. You know this: if you ask your
Losing weight can be a challenge, and I think most of us who have tried to shed unwanted pounds will likely agree on that point. While effective weight control seems to come very easily for some people, for others it is quite often a tremendous strain that requires not only a great deal of work
I turned over in bed, embracing the cold of absence. My thoughts spun a web of sappy love poems and hopeless wishes, an eighteen year old’s unrequited-love lullaby. I slept with my phone grasped in my hand, hoping to feel his heartbeat through it, or at least a vibration to suggest that he, too, was
On the coldest winter mornings, we often experience a physical taxation: our feet flinch on the hardwoods, our legs move a bit arthritically, and as we enter the day, we notice an overall slowing of body. Even the young are impeded by their marshmallow coats. For some people, the season pries its way past a
I’ve spent essentially my entire life in the American Midwest, a region primarily defined as the expanse that exists between places where things actually happen. We experience the bulk of the Midwest through the windows of cars and airplanes, a blurry procession of trees and fields, with a gas station sprinkled here and there for
My time in food service started like many others. I was your typical suburban 16-year-old girl in want of nothing at all except for one really big thing: A car to call my own. In the high school parking lot full of Hondas and Toyotas, I wanted to be different. Something about the square taillights
