Midpoint She was everything that I am not: raven-haired, practically weightless, indomitably perky. Sweet-tempered. Obliging. Patient. If she hadn’t been a cocker spaniel, she might have been real competition for me. What woman could stand comparison to another female who ...

You know you’re getting old(er) when The Big New Thing is something you remember as a perfectly ordinary feature of everyday life. It makes you wonder if there really are only about 10 major ideas that govern human existence, and ...

It’s Valentine’s Day, which ranks right up there with New Year’s Eve on the Great Expectations scale. This is the holiday that transports us back to third grade and the Valentine Mail Box on the teacher’s desk. You remember: Everyone ...

So there I am, pushing my shopping cart doggedly along the cereal aisle, weighing the merits of calcium-fortified over maximum fiber and feeling every year of my advanced chronological age. And then, bam! Out of nowhere, it’s Little Eva on ...