He still is football daft. We go to games together (Kilmarnock and Scotland) and I hope this never ends. I’m sure he’d like to travel with his pals to more games than he has done already, but there’s an unspoken rule that the football is our thing and our thing alone, and tha...
Our line was one not to be crossed with sabers flashing to perpetuate liberty or slavery or whatever that was about. Actually, it’s more like a fence we lean against and talk across like two close and longtime pals who married twin sisters and live next door. P.K. said, “You’re n...
Even from my limited childhood view, he and my mother didn’t seem to have a happy marriage, and many nights I’d wake up to him yelling and her crying. I alternated between hiding under the covers with my stuffed animals and venturing down the hall with the hope that if they saw me...
Answer: When they run out of patients (as in, “patience”). Question: What did the judge say to the dentist? Answer: Do you swear to pull the tooth, the whole tooth, and nothing but the tooth? Question: Why did the golfer wear two pairs of pants? Answer: In case he got a hole...
When I started wearing a bra, I stuffed that in deeper—probably along with my well-worn copy of Forever. Bras were a nod to my developing femininity—to sexuality. Although my father and I talked about a lot of things as I grew up, bras weren’t among them. I am fairly sure that...