Category: Mental Meanderings

Before plastering some stickers on my car, I cleaned the spot with a paper towel, which turned black. Some road filth is from tires and brakes slowly wearing out, but a huge reason that cars are so dirty is because of emissions.  When I’m driving behind an impatient pickup truck driver who finally gets to…

Back in 1987, my parents dropped me off in the Bronx for a summer. I moved into an apartment on the 24th floor of a dorm of Yeshiva University. Tragically, the elevator was broken, so the haul up all those flights was hot and tedious. My mom was mildly horrified to leave a 21-year-old daughter…

There has been a growing rumbling over Amy Acton’s refusal to debate Vivek Ramaswamy this fall. The latter has accepted invitations by major networks to debate Acton, but she has declined offers to meet him on a stage. Rather than spending time doing national interviews in which he claims this shows weakness on her part…

A pal at work showed me a social media post of her friend, who is a realtor and farmer. The man sells beef and poultry that he raises and had posted in disbelief a screenshot of a text he received from a prospective customer. The stranger had inquired about his beef and also wanted to…

I wish someone would publish a study to determine if there’s a correlation between devotion to a streak, like Duolingo and Wordle streaks, and devotion to a relationship. There’s something tenacious about staying awake just a little later to do the Wordle before the puzzle refreshes at midnight. The same thing goes for a three…