How to find joy in your crepey skin.

Here is my sure-fire suggestion to set a scene or provoke a mood.  Add a fly.  And give him human characteristics.

The I Hate to Cookbook, published by Peg Bracken in 1960, saved my mother’s life.

Take a tour of the ubiquitous hexagon, from the humble honeycomb to the 16,000 mile wide hexagon on the surface of Saturn!

My uneasy relationship with guinea pigs in four chapters.

Who would have throught that my experience with typewriters would touch on gender politics, boyfriends and the tyranny of the typo!

Strangers can validate you as a writer.

If you want a jolt of American ingenuity, go to Bed and Bath and Beyond and take in the splendor of all the kitchen gadgets.

I felt the tightening grasp of the humble banana.  It had the potential to scuttle a promising friendship.