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My darling Chad, Good morning, sleepyhead! I’ve been awake for a couple of hours and you’re still sawing logs. You always were a great sleeper. It gives me pleasure to watch you at rest. It also gives me a chance to finally do the right thing and fade out of your life for good. It was great being with you last night after your gig at the jazz event. Believe me, the pleasure was...

It happens almost every day. I get home from work, kick off my shoes, plop down in front of the television and I hear that unmistakable voice. He wants me to go swimming. My 13-year old son has waited all day for his dad to join him in the pool. I can't understand for the life of me why this is such a big deal. I mean, I'm 50 years old! Most of the time, I'll just say no, implying...

By now, we should be used to young actors dying from the excesses of fame. I don't have to make a list -- you know their names and you know their sordid stories. But for some reason, the death of actor Corey Haim of an apparent drug overdose this morning has made me particularly sad. Why? Maybe it's because unlike a lot of others who died young, he was well past his prime. He hasn't been in a...

Several years ago, when I worked at a local television station, I was engaged in a conversation with a news anchor friend of mine. As he was preparing to go on the air, with less than 30 seconds until the start of the broadcast, he said to me, "Michael, what if I could tell you the secret to living a long and healthy life?" I said, "Sure, Marc. Please. Enlighten me." He continued, "What if I told...

Until this very morning, SalGal’s right hand resembled the Komodo Dragon’s mangled, bent, misshapen claw. Her ring finger and pinkie on the right hand were permanently bent at the middle knuckle in a way that made you think she was striking a ‘pose’ as if she were trying out for a hand lotion commercial at Jurassic Park. Would that her 58-year-old hands were ever considered for such a...

As some of you may know, I am expecting my first child. Like any first-time mom-to-be, I'm filled with excitement, nervousness, sheer joy and of course, questions. Everyone in the world has an opinion about what I "absolutely should" and "absolutely should not" be doing. And that advice covers everything from exercise, food, products to buy and ways to decorate. But the one area that really...

I can think of 1 million reasons to hire a stand-in mom: cleaning, cooking dinner, doing the laundry, gift-wrapping birthday gifts, writing thank you cards, etc., etc. But I suppose on most days I can just suck it up and get all those tasks done, along with working on my paying job and the unpaid bliss that is motherhood and wifedom. However, I think I would have given up whatever meager savings...