What my memoir writers came up with when I asked them to write “One Thing I Didn’t Like About my Mother.”

Hey all, apologies for last Monday without Mike. I took Memorial Day off — in fact, I took the whole week off. I hadn’t had a vacation in, well, I don’t remember and I was getting more squirrelly than normal. So, for me and for all those around me, a little rest and relaxation was in order. […]

My friend Nicole Dotto has decided to move her successful ETSY business back to California — after this last winter in Chicago, I can’t say I blame her…

People have been asking me if I’m excited about the “driverless car” Google is working on. Truth is, I don’t miss driving that much. Mike and I live in a neighborhood in Chicago so close to downtown that I can walk or take a train, cab or bus just about anywhere I want to go. […]

So many of you commented here (or told me personally) about how much you liked reading last week’s post about 92-year-old writer Wanda Bridgeforth’s first try at using a new high-tech “caption phone,” that I thought you might enjoy this spirited email from Wanda about her progress with the phone since then: Hello from Wanda […]