I am not saying that it was John’s fault that our 14-year- old son brought the swine flu to Tokyo on our summer vacation at the height of the swine flu craze, or that my son and I were put in a Japanese research hospital, where from the space suits the doctors were wearing, it seemed like they thought we were carrying anthrax. It’s just that John wanted the very […]

I grew up in Spokane, Washington and was graduated from the University of Washington in accounting

It kills me that my mother is a better cook than I am. Why will John eat her Caesar salad but mine is too garlicky? Or “sour,” as one of the kids will pipe during dinner. John wolfs my mom’s salad and her parmesan crab crostini’s even though he’s supposedly allergic to crab. He adores his mother-in-law, which seems a little unnatural. He even wears the clothes she buys him! […]

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