I knew you were coming. I baked a cake.

Come in! Well, well, well. Look who’s here. I haven’t seen you in many A year. If I knew you were comin’ I’d’ve baked a cake, baked a cake, baked a cake If I knew you were comin’ I’d’ve baked a cake Howdya do, howdya do,...

Fun and Games Saved Our Marriage

We were at a beautiful resort in Cancun, and I was furious with my husband, Rick.  Based on my vast experience as a married woman, I can say with some assurance that it’s no less miserable to be in that angry space at the beach than in your laundry room or at the...

Math on a Plate

I love math, and I loved teaching it. I told my students, “It is the only thing in the world that makes sense.” If you do it right, the answer is utterly predictable.  There’s a fairness to it:  if you lighten one side of an equation, you must lighten the other. ...

My Weighty Weight

” If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight.  The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss,and I do not know which talk is the more boring.” – Marya Mannes“I dread going to the party,” I told Teri.  “I haven’t seen those...

Do these chopsticks make me look fat?

  The sight of Mt. Fuji filled me with dread.  It was going to be another fat-shaming experience in the Land of the Rising Sun and the Small Bottoms.  ‘ My husband pretended not to notice that, with the exception of Sumo wrestlers, I was the broadest-beamed...

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