by Sandy Lingo | Feb 6, 2019 |
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. ...
by Sandy Lingo | Jan 13, 2019 |
” 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...
by Sandy Lingo | Nov 23, 2018 |
My 89-year-old stepmother and I, who are not habitual runners, fairly ran to the car. My husband, dressed in salmon shorts and a slouchy shirt meant not to be tucked, ambled over. “Hurry up,” I snarled. “Get in the car and turn on the air!” We could have stayed...
by Sandy Lingo | Mar 18, 2018 |
When you go to the doctors’ office at 7:30 in the morning, and you say you have the flu, you get a pink mask. And for a doctor, you get who you get which is okay, because I just want a prescription, and any old MD will do. I first have to tell the...
by Sandy Lingo | Feb 25, 2017 |
You’ve seen it. The groom takes a piece of wedding cake and smashes it into the perfectly made up face of his bride. This is the message: Ladies will not eat unless they are force fed. Stop fast-forwarding past the commercials, and you’ll see men scarfing pizza,...
by Sandy Lingo | Sep 2, 2016 |
My daughter knows my aversion to movement. Really, I am a pet rock. Except for brief runs (well, walks, to be honest) to the fridge and john, I could be a wax figure in Madame Tussaud’s Museum. So it came as some surprise when I received a Fitbit from my...
