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Once the electric needle started purring and the pain began, Marvalene clamped her teeth down on the large plastic comb and started to re-think her decision to get a Florida alligator tattoo on her neck. Perhaps she should have chosen a smaller animal; at least something with less scales. Perhaps she shouldn’t be getting a tattoo at all . . . Known for her hasty decisions, which sometimes...

I love getting older. For instance, it is so much fun now to not really care what other people think. Not too long ago, I loaded up my three local grandchildren and took them joy riding in my convertible with the top down. We headed to a local cemetery where, not long after we arrived, I managed to cut a curb a little too close and catch the side panel of the car on a tombstone. The end result was...

My after Christmas newsletter is devoted to responding to the Christmas newsletters I received this year and in previous years. I have saved my favorites (not!) from the last few years and I would now like to respond with my own. First of all, I want you to know that I don’t really care that your husband had hemorrhoid surgery in August (or any other month for that matter) or to know that he...

Roz Savage is a British ocean rower, author, motivational speaker and environmental campaigner. After 11 years as a management consultant, she embarked on a new life of adventure by rowing 3,000 miles across the Atlantic. Her unlikely transformation from office worker to ocean rower, described with humor and soul-baring honesty in her blogs, captivated a worldwide audience. Roz is now...