As restaurants, bars, gyms, entertainment venues and other small employers look forward to higher capacity limits and fewer restrictions starting April 4, there is a sense of optimism that the worst of this year-long COVID-19 nightmare may finally be behind us. However, reality tells us ...

Jealousy makes us do some terrible things. Like ram our heads into windows over and over and over. I was sitting at my dining-room office on Tuesday when I heard tapping at a window behind me. That was odd. I figure my neighbors (and most people) would just walk up to the front door. I went ...

Somebody recently asked me, “What was your most embarrassing moment?” Hmm, why would she even assume I’d ever had an embarrassing moment? Then I realized why – she knows me. It’s only a hop, skip and a pratfall from my everyday life to embarrassment. And yes, I certainly have had ...

We did not even color one egg this year. In the past my husband and I had both colored eggs for Easter. He told me Diedra always wanted a bowl of colored eggs for her Easter table. My children always wanted to make special eggs for people so we put ours into baskets. Of course, last year ...

During my college years, I discovered musical theater. Don’t ask me why I know the lyrics to so many songs that almost nobody else has heard of. I mean, why would anyone admit to knowing all the rapid-fire words to “Trouble” (“Ya got trouble, right here in River City”) from The Music ...

In recent months, Gov. Tom Wolf has become more vociferous in his push to legalize recreational marijuana. In reality, Wolf’s focus on pushing pot shows his political savvy, despite his “I’m new at politics,” protests. After all, what could be a better distraction from his abysmal ...