2013-07-17 15:18
As a lover of language, I occasionally encounter a word or expression that enthralls me. Sometimes, however, I come across one that disturbs me.Let’s talk about one of the latter: mari… Read More
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2013-05-28 10:00
It’s been two weeks since my return from a fun-filled trip to Sacramento where I visited my two grandsons, ages 6 and almost three. (Oh, and their parents were there, too.) Parenthetic… Read More
2013-05-20 17:10
Yes, it was just a couple of weeks ago that I posted about laughing out loud in several random locations while I was reading Paula Poundstone’s book, I Heart Jokes. I feared bein… Read More
2013-05-06 13:13
Here is a golden oldie from the early days of Funny Is the New Young... Walk back in time with me...Paula Poundstone Made Me Do ItYou know, some things that are just fine in the privacy of o… Read More
2012-09-19 10:00
So remember that whole ‘coincidence’ post from a couple of months ago? The one where weird names kept coming up in clumps after an absence of thirty-some years? Or an author I le… Read More
2012-09-13 10:00
Yes, I know it’s been hot, not just here, but all over the United States. So, indeed, it is hot in here and it’s not just me.But I’m asking about ‘stupid’, not… Read More
2012-09-10 16:42
Over time I’ve heard a lot of people say that there’s no such thing as coincidence. They believe that those things which many of us view as remarkable concurrent events—and… Read More
2012-09-10 16:34
So I woke up the other morning to hear that the Miami Heat beat the Oklahoma City Thunder in the NBA playoffs. (For my husband, the Center of the Universe, a.k.a. CoTU, that’s basketba… Read More
2012-03-21 10:00
I heard a great expression the other night. As so often happens, it came out during a rousing evening of bunco. You remember my bunco crowd? –Twelve women of a certain age who gather t… Read More
2012-02-22 14:40
People say things without thinking. To be sure, this generalization applies to me, too. I once had a teacher who enjoyed saying, “All generalizations are false, including this one.&rdq&hell…Read More
2012-02-16 11:00
We just returned from a week on the sunny gulf coast of Florida. And you know that when I say ‘we’ I mean my husband, the Center of the Universe (CoTU) and I. In contrast to prev… Read More
2012-02-08 11:00
For the past four years I have said that I did not want a Smartphone. I said it so often that I began saying that I didn’t want a phone that was smarter than I am.All four of our kids… Read More
2012-02-01 11:00
I’m running a marathon. Don’t faint—it’s not the 10K for cancer research. It’s not the 5K for heart disease. It’s the never-ending race against the… Read More
2012-01-15 18:53
What’s the best thing about spending eleven nights in a hotel?Fresh and ironed sheets every day? No, but that’s certainly in my top five.New towels hung for you every day? Not re… Read More
2011-12-14 11:00
I learned a great lesson on how to keep a marriage happy from the French master chef Jacques Pepin. He was on the radio on Thanksgiving Day (on NPR, of course—you know me!) talking abo… Read More
2011-12-07 11:00
I have no idea why I spend so much time and energy ironing the backs of my pants. Let’s face it, by the time I drive anywhere, they’re so wrinkled, I might as well have spent tha… Read More
2011-11-30 11:00
Thanksgiving is behind us, and if the first snow has not fallen where you are by the time you read this, it cannot be far behind. We had a flurry here Monday morning. Happily, it didn’… Read More
2011-10-17 10:00
Ah yes, the airplane trip: a dependable source of frustration, humor and shared germs. Squished carry-ons, people who won’t turn off their cell phones, talkers who want to yak in your… Read More
2011-09-30 14:37
The day started off innocently enough. We had slept soundly. Everything looked and felt normal. There were no overt signs or sounds of a break-in…I got up, brushed my teeth, washed my… Read More
2011-09-21 13:10
Al Gore had a good week last week. He was on The Colbert Report Tuesday night, and sparred competently with the amazingly agile and witty Stephen Colbert. My husband, the Center of the Unive… Read More
2011-09-07 17:21
Our mattress is done for. We used to love it, and even on the best of vacations, we would talk all the way home of how much we looked forward to sleeping in our own bed.I have a long history… Read More
2011-08-25 10:00
You remember my bunco club, the Dicey Housewives of West County, don’t you? Yes, the ten of us have been getting together for years on the second Monday of the month to play bunco. The… Read More
2011-08-17 10:00
By popular request, we’re back with another installment of “I Chose This Profession Because of My Name”.You may recall that we’ve shared examples in the past of peopl… Read More
2011-08-17 10:00
By popular request, we’re back with another installment of “I Chose This Profession Because of My Name”.You may recall that we’ve shared examples in the past of peopl… Read More
2011-08-03 10:00
Happy Anniversary to the Blog!Yes, here at FITNY (no, that’s not a chic New York gym—it’s Funny Is The New Young) we’re turning two years old, and this is my 200th po… Read More
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