Eggnog:  Although I find that I have about zero holiday spirit this year, I bought some Organic Valley eggnog, and I’m loving it.  It’s mostly cream and sugar, so it’s perhaps not all that great for me, but it has no artificial ingred...

The other morning the guy I’m married to (who I sometimes still accidentally refer to as my boyfriend, even though we’ve been married for coming on nine years) was playing banjo, as he often does in the mornings. “You know,” he said, “I ...

In the late 1990s, people would ask me what I did for a living. “I’m getting my Ph.D. in English,” I’d tell them. They’d immediately say, “Oh, I’d better watch what I say around you!  My grammar is terrible.” I have to r...