Cassina Farley

After the purchase was confirmed and I received the email from Home Depot, I realized there was no going back. I had just ordered a 12-foot skeleton. 

I needed to know exactly how we would survive an alien attack in our home. My husband Zach wasn’t much help.

There’s lots of bonuses to having friends of a certain age.

Why is it so hard for two adults to feed themselves on a daily basis?

I am part of the “walk it off” generation. I’ve been shot in the leg with a BB gun, hid the event from my mother and then extracted the projectile myself. I’ve got the scar to prove it.

Living with bullies.

Usually when a guy walks up to you at a street fair and asks if you would like a free mammogram, your first line of defense should be to cut and run. 

I miss when it was easier to ask a stranger to dinner. Or to trust that lonely couple who live in their Buick to spend the night at your mother’s house on Christmas. I miss when it was okay to leave food and water out for migrants.

In the beginning I thought the self-checkout was a genius idea. Then we went to Fry’s.

We spent many hours at the park until I realized I couldn’t handle both my toddler nephew and my dad, ill with Alzheimer’s, going berserk.