I’m all in — The participants featured on Discovery Channel’s absurd series “Naked and Afraid” are hungry, thirsty, smelly, and envious of your warm, clean bed. Being naked, of course, adds to their misery. I find them captivating. It is not their suffering that fascinates me. Or their nakedness. Or the interplay between the…

Where’s the love? — No garlic kisses for the Italian Mrs.? You cook tomorrow! We BOTH Smell Like Garlic — The Brain is a Noodle — Medium

Saying goodbye on a cheapskate’s budget — These days, the possibility of untimely death — mine — never completely leaves my thoughts. And since the Covid-19 pandemic continues to shake my long-held belief in the low odds of dying in one’s 50s, I have decided it would be wise for me to remind my husband of my…

My drinking problem is not what you think — and will make you unforgettable, I guarantee — I have a delightful, diamond-shaped wine bottle stopper. For my good health, I recently decided to fling my delightful, diamond-shaped wine bottle stopper into the trash. Surely, I thought, pairing the plastic stopper’s faux, crystalline fineness with Fluffy’s distasteful litter box production would finally allow me to banish the stopper…