For all you professionals out there (and I don’t mean the streetwalkin’ kind): Have you ever just had a client that was so damned determined, against your professional advice and paid consultation, to shoot themselves in the head, and all you could do is just hand them the bullets? Well, hand them the bullets, and […]

Harry’s standard answer to just about any request nowadays? “I’m sorry, I just don’t think I can do that right now.” In scary faux-empathetic monotone. I keep glancing nervously around for the monolith. 

My current travel schedule has me on the road 50% of the time between January 29 and March 6. My husband has threatened to take a picture of me and hang it on the refrigerator so my son would remember what his mother looked like. I was not amused.  Not amused at all. Thankfully, after […]

Isn’t he dreamy?

I could try to capture in words just how I felt as I listened to the swearing in ceremony of our 44th President. I could try to explain that brief soaring of the heart I had during his speech,  that moment of teary-eyed elation that resisted the impulse of my inner cynic to suppress. I […]

So. I have several “investment products” in addition to my 401K.  I have a traditional IRA rolled over from my Federal pension program.  I have a Roth IRA.  And I have a tax-deferred annuity.  In a stroke of unintended genius, I closed my brokerage account last February to buy our last car.  I would have […]

Do normal three-year-olds use words like “famished” in perfect context, despite the fact that you know, for a fact that you have not used that word in their presence? When you ask them to do something, do they say they will do it “eventually”? Or come out with “That was unexpected…” when they are surprised? […]

And with that little French-English Pun, I will announce this blog’s participation in National Delurking Day. I know you’re out there.  Stand up and be counted.

Sometimes the measure of our character lies not in what we accomplish, but in what we survive.  

Very young children have a notoriously fuzzy line between reality and fantasy.  Just read Piaget’s developmental theory – ages 2 to 7 are the years of “magical thinking”.  Uh.  Huh.   Apparently Harry did not get the memo and neglected his Piaget.   There was a general class movement at Harry’s preschool to put all […]