Remember Garfield? The cartoon cat with a weight problem? Growing up, I couldn’t imagine a cat being fat. Our cats were always slim and fit. The whole Garfield-is-fat thing just never really made sense to me. When Amos came into our lives eight years ago, he was this tiny little puffball, so young he couldn’t [...]
Yesterday I was talking to my students about two women in American history who argued that marriage was nothing more than an economic arrangement. I wanted to get the kids talking about their opinions on it, and what I discovered floored me. Marriage is completely about money, they said. Love has very little to do [...]
Uh, yeah, so when I talked about how the new clothes I’d bought wound up being see-through, I should have explained a bit more. No, they’re not from Frederick’s of Hollywood (dude, are they still in existence?) and no, they’re not from Forever 21. They’re from JJill, Title Nine, and Garnet Hill (which, actually, those [...]