What Makes Me Laugh

I can’t even type the word “tradition” now without hearing the song from Fiddler on the Roof  and wanting to follow the first with another, louder, “Tradition!” Last weekend I traveled to Canada for the second annual mother-daughter get-together over the Martin Luther King Jr. long weekend. This year’s entertainment highlight was an Off-Broadway production of Fiddler [...]

Day 3 of the Vegas Adventure 5:15 a.m. I’m not an early morning runner. If I had my druthers, I’d run mid-morning every day. I’d get up about 8:30, run about 9:00, shower and be to work about 10:30. But this is not my life, so I usually run over my lunch break or after [...]

6:20 a.m. Worry Wart Day two of the Vegas adventure started at 6:20 a.m. with a more-than-slightly hungover me waking to the alarm of a text message. You should just lay there, my body said. But my brain had different ideas, so I fumbled for the phone and opened it under the covers to read [...]

I’m a little road weary from the trip and sore from the run (I silently scream at the sight of stairs) but I couldn’t wait to share the Vegas blow-by-blow since it’s so good. I’m doling out by day, so check back for the new installments. Sorry there’s no pic for the first day – [...]

I’m sitting on my couch, feeling like flu warmed over, and wondering when I’ll emerge from the fog. We returned from New England a week ago today and I still have the motivation of a deadbeat on pot. I barely got through my sleep-deprived week at home and work when a stomach bug hit me [...]

A little spectacular scenery is as good for the soul as a laugh.

The thing about hiking in New Hampshire is that you can be standing at the bottom of the mountain, enjoying a warm day, and yet at the top you’re hoping not to die from exposure. We climbed Mount Eisenhower with Doug’s brother Don, who fearlessly led us up the mountain as if climbing a 1,000 [...]

If I asked you to bet on whether we would make it on time to New England given the following circumstances, you’d probably not take the bet. Our 4:30 a.m. wake up call came at 4:45. Then I locked myself out of our hotel room with my pillow still inside and had to wait for [...]

Montana summers are the kind of summers people in southern parts dream about. They vacation here in dry 75 degree weather, with a cool breeze at night to ripple the leaves of the aspen trees, and talk about moving here someday. Some of them do, and most of them leave after two years, when they [...]

I get very annoyed with magazine editors who run teasers like, “The Top 10 secret hiking spots, or secret small towns, or secret erogenous zones, or some such nonsense.” I mean, c’mon, do we have to advertise the best places to the whole world? Why can’t some things remain undiscovered? So, it’s with some regret that I [...]