After a recent flight out of O'Hare, I have vowed to be kinder to anyone I catch snoring in public. You just never know where they're coming from. The flight...
Cabdrivers and I are totally bonding, as you might know by now. First, a few weeks ago, I wrote a little item about how the public should be nice to...
Would it kill a guy to read instructions? We've often wondered. So we confess, we were tickled recently when we overheard a co-worker describing his own disastrous bout with instruction...
As I gathered the Christmas cards from my mantel to tuck away (or toss), my eyes rested on the one from the friend who manages to raise two kids and...
Two friends overhead talking in Andersonville: "My neighbor's baby is so cute! She was born by C-section, so she's not all squished looking." "That makes a difference?" "Oh, yeah! With...
I tend to steer clear of department-store makeup counters. I'm out of my element among the pots of powder and globs of goo that other women use to "put on...
I recently was sucked into the wondrous vortex that is eBay. Nothing could pry me from the online auction site--no friends' pleas, no job demands, not even the threat of...
Two yupster women were overheard chatting on an Andersonville street: "So this woman on TV said, `What would you rather listen to, those screaming Mandrake babies in the new `Harry...
A schoolboy was trudging down a Chicago sidewalk on a recent morning, dragging his backpack as snowflakes whistled around him. From a window a few floors up in the apartment...
Jennifer Lopez should be ashamed of herself. Sure, the sultry diva has made the world a more welcome place for women with big butts. And who cares that she has...