My wife, Amber, has a subtle way of dropping hints for me to do things: She tells them to our dog, Oreo.鈥淥reo, I wish my husband will do something nice and extra special for me on Valentine鈥檚 Day, which falls on Tuesday next week.鈥濃�淎mber,鈥� I say, 鈥淚鈥檓 sitting right next to ...
They say a man鈥檚 home is his castle, but I鈥檓 guessing that phrase didn鈥檛 come into play before the idea of the king鈥檚 princess and princesses having sleepovers.Then again, I imagine maybe they did have sleepovers at the castles back in those days, but they likely ended in bloodshed, as ...
Last week, a coworker told me to take a look at a recent photo of singer Madonna 鈥� not so much to show me something, but more of a dare, like when you鈥檙e dared to stand in front of a mirror and say 鈥淐andyman鈥� five times and then he appears to bury a hook into your skull.Sorry, I鈥檝e ...
I want to start the new year with an upbeat, uplifting, upheaving story to give people the feeling there鈥檚 hope on the horizon and the best of those stories are born out of what鈥檚 perceived to be an otherwise dire event.Nothing better illustrates such a story like the one I recently read ...
Ah, New Year鈥檚 Day. Some call it the beginning of something new, but I consider it the end of a marathon of tradition and nostalgia for two holidays in the course of one week.And when I refer to traditions as a marathon, I mean like a marathon in each and every town, each county, all the ...
Christmas 2021 was a bittersweet experience in the Hofmann household as it marked the year that then-11-year-old Emma told us she stopped believing in Santa Claus.Well, technically, she didn鈥檛 tell us. She told my wife, Amber, earlier that day. Amber, later at the dinner table, said, 鈥淓mma ...
