Strategies of a Crazy Girl

To text or not to text. That was the question a girlfriend of mine posed over lunch the Wednesday before Thanksgiving.  She had met a guy on Match.com, they had gone out once, they had exchanged a few days worth of texts and now she was at a crossroads. She needed to either A). craft [...]

The Year of Titanic

It was the year of the Titanic. That ill-destined ship and little blue-haired lady rocked my world and the world of millions.  You couldn’t go anywhere without the sound of teenage girls screaming LEEEEOOOO.  LEEEEOOOO.  Theaters sold out for weeks – I knew a girl who went eleven times.  ELEVEN times.  She had to get [...]

The Winner’s Crease

I am a cheater. I grew up playing board games: Are You My Mother?, CandyLand, Chutes and Ladders, Monopoly, Checkers, Chinese Checkers, 13 Dead End Drive, and versions of Chess that ended up more like Barbie Dolls with kings and queens than the actual game. And every chance I got, I cheated. I peeked when [...]