Just For Fun

Pack Rat

September 15, 2005

“Happy Birthday!” my wife Jody and the kids cried out as they placed before me a home-made chocolate cake with white frosting and peanut M&Ms spelling out the number “45.”.   “Thank you,” I said as I hugged each one of them in turn. “And what’s this?” I asked innocently.   As I felt the […]

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Vision Therapy

August 15, 2005

As regular readers of this column know, I am quite meticulous about exercise. Rarely a day goes by without me hitting the pavement, IPod strapped to my arm.   Now, apparently, I have to give my eyes a work out too.   A few months ago, I got a new prescription for my glasses that […]

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The Tupperware Bra

January 12, 2005

Have you ever wondered what a Tupperware Party is all about? I know I have…I mean, I’ve heard the term for years. But when I think about it, I always conjure up an absurd image of 1950s-era housewives in fancy party dresses drinking, laughing and flirting while fondling dumpy plastic containers with that funny name…Tupperware. […]

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Doing the Para-Macarena

November 4, 2004

Twenty-two years ago, on my birthday, I jumped out of an airplane. How I got up the courage, I still don’t know, but I have had nightmares about it ever since. It wasn’t the freefall to earth that got me: I had a parachute on after all and it was hooked to the plane so […]

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