Not A Shoe In

March 23, 2010

Our hostess invited us inside with a smile and said, “Please take off your shoes and leave them at the door. We don’t wear shoes inside.” “Crap!” I thought while glaring at my husband. “Why didn’t somebody tell me this so I didn’t wear my ‘Sunday socks’ — the holey ones?” He had been to [...]

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Even Magic Couldn’t Save It

December 8, 2007

At a conference once, I shared a hotel room with a gal from East Texas. I had never met her before, and I decided she had a really strange habit. It made me gag to watch her every morning as she performed her ablutions. She filled the sink almost full with water each morning. First, [...]

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Household Suggestions From A Used Book—You Get What You Paid For

March 9, 2007

I’m on the road in a hotel in Corpus Christi, Texas right now. My resources for writing anything are limited, because I only brought one book with me. Somehow I don’t feel confident about surfing the internet on an “unsecured connection.” I think that on other trips my e-mail password was stolen somehow on a [...]

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