We’ve all heard of and dealt with the newest new normal: shrinkflation, i. e., paying the same for less. Rather than raise prices, some companies just “shrink” what’s in the package. Cases in point are: tissue, toilet tissue, the ounces of anything found in a can. It’s rather amusing (and sad) to find an old […]
It finally dawned on me the other day as I was in my local library to find a specific book, that over the years, my relationship with libraries has changed. Where once I would walk the stacks and look for a title that intrigued me, now I’m in the ‘bag it and tag it’ mode. […]
Try as I might, for the last (fill in the blank) years that I’ve been setting up the tree, the decor, the nativities, I turn around a day, a week, a month! later, and there it is: a piece of Christmas still in view. This is such a habit–failing?–that my husband asked me yesterday if I’d […]