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"How do you like the new tortilla chips?" I asked my husband as he chomped on a new tortilla chip while we watched TV.

"I like them," he said. "They're thinner than the other ones you've gotten."

"Actually, they're thicker," I said. "It's the same company that makes the thin ones you like, but now they make a thicker version."

"These are ...Read more

"What's a snood?" I asked my husband while I sat on the sofa perusing a new clothing catalog.

"I don't know," he said, chuckling. "What's snood with you?"

"I didn't say what's new," I said lowering the magazine. "I said, 'what's a snood?'"

"What's a snood?" he repeated.

"That's what I'm asking. There's a sweater in this catalog that comes ...Read more

When it comes to Thanksgiving, there are two kinds of cranberry sauce people: the can people and the homemade people.

I come from a long line of can people. In my family, the canned cranberry sauce was an essential part of our Thanksgiving tradition, and I thought it was awesome. Unlike the homemade cranberry sauces, the canned sauce would ...Read more

Somehow or other, I managed to get to the age of 56 never having made a Thanksgiving turkey. I have always been the guest at Thanksgiving, never the host, which was good news for me and for the people who didn't have to attend Thanksgiving dinner at my home and ingest turkey that was so dried out you could put it in a pipe and smoke it, or so ...Read more

"Whoa!!!" I yelled, lifting my legs onto the couch where I was sitting and typing in our new, very old house.

"Eep!" yelled the large, furry creature that was not my dog in the middle of our new, very old living room.

We both froze in some kind of homeowner/wild-animal-in-the-living-room standoff, until I stood up and yelled at it.

"Hey, ...Read more

"You put that in the wrong way," I said to my husband as I stood over him, watching as he loaded the dishwasher.

"Are you backseat dishwasher-loading?" he asked me.

"It's not a big deal," I said. "It's just that all the dinner plates should be loaded on the bottom, in the front, facing the same way."

He shook his head, wiped his hands on a ...Read more

"You put that in the wrong way," I said to my husband as I stood over him, watching as he loaded the dishwasher.

"Are you backseat dishwasher-loading?" he asked me.

"It's not a big deal," I said. "It's just that all the dinner plates should be loaded on the bottom, in the front, facing the same way."

He shook his head, wiped his hands on a ...Read more