Zumba? Maybe with a twist…

I have no zum in my ba. I just finished my second Zumba class, and as much as I’d love to look and move like my instructors, I’m pretty sure I never will. The music is great, the mood is upbeat, an hour flies by quick, and you barely realize you are working out untilContinue reading “Zumba? Maybe with a twist…”

Free Lunch

I have never been a fiction writer, but I think I’ve found new inspiration.  It involves free food, so I might actually do it.  It also involves acting, which I’ve never aspired to, but maybe I would try if the payoff were the elusive free lunch. When I think about it, I actually do aContinue reading “Free Lunch”

The Unlikely Abduction of a Pterodactyl Baby

For a quiet kid, my daughter has always been loud. Eardrum bursting decibel levels have always been well within her capacity, even if she doesn’t choose to exercise that talent often. I knew early on that she was special in the screaming department. When she was six weeks old, I bundled her up and cartedContinue reading “The Unlikely Abduction of a Pterodactyl Baby”

To Tweet or Not to Tweet

If you want to feel really old, watch the MTV Video Music Awards while learning to use Twitter.   Just watching the VMAs poses a high risk for seizures in anyone over 30, but when you do so with a laptop open to the Twitter feed for #VMA, you’re in for massive brain overstimulation. The VMAContinue reading “To Tweet or Not to Tweet”

Hershey With a Hangover

As summer winds down, I am feeling guilty for not yet taking my kid to Hershey Park, so I resurrected this 2008 memory from my hard drive. I woke up with a killer headache.  I had only had one glass of wine, but it felt like I had finished off a bottle.   I knew IContinue reading “Hershey With a Hangover”