I would like to be known as a humorist rather than a comedian.  I used to be a stand-up but there’s too high of an expectation of how funny you have to be.  If you are a comic, people want you to make them laugh so hard that they actually start coughing up blood.  I don’t need [...]

I try to be so organized and always have back-up supplies.  This comes from growing up in a house with 7 people where one small tube of toothpaste was shuttled from one bathroom to the next.  (No wonder I’ve had eleven root canals!) When we ran out of toilet paper, one of my parents would [...]

I am having no problem with this new law in our County that charges us a nickel per bag.  But apparently, the people who work the checkout counter are.  They say snarky things like, “so, I guess you didn’t bring any bags DID you?”  I always feel as though I have to be apologetic about [...]

I was at the Grosvenor Market the other day (I’m there every day). There was a man who parked his car illegally in the middle of the parking lot blocking the car of a well-dressed woman. They were both standing by their cars and nothing was happening.  The woman shrugged at me.  A few minutes later, I [...]

02 The Mommy Merry-Go Round by Sally Pessin   Here is a song I wrote for a Simon and Schuster author’s website to assist her in promoting her new baby book.  She hired me to write a humorous song about what it was like to be a new mother.  She took me into the studio, [...]

…if I don’t respond to your “chatting” on Facebook.  The truth is, I don’t understand it and I rarely see it. I need an aural cue like a loud alarm or even a punch in the nose to let me know you want to chat with me.  When will they come up this? In the [...]

While walking around my neighborhood for exercise, I take note of what is in people’s recylcing bins. I don’t actually pick through them to see what’s underneath the top layer because in the words of Jerry Seinfeld, I would “cross the line between man and bum.” (Giving Jerry attribution puts me in the all-clear for [...]

This is how a friend described me because I am so clumsily trying to navigate Mark Zuckerberg’s brainchild and I cause all I kinds of faux pas in front my of 72 “friends.”  I’m still trying to figure out why people contact me through FB rather than e-mail. I feel very lame that I have [...]

Once each summer, I make a pilgrimmage to Kensington (all of 5 miles away) to a funky little clothing store.  Why once a year? Because the clothes are VERY expensive.  But in the summer, if I can catch the sale right, I take my birthday money and buy a sun dress for a reasonable price. [...]

by…cleaning! We were very lucky that during Hurricane Irene, we didn’t lose power.  However, two days after the hurricane, for some reason, the power went out a little before 7 AM.   Probably the Pepco guys working in the vicinity of our grid sneezed too hard or spilled coffee on the motherboard. I spent yesterday [...]