Twice now, I’ve been married. Twice now, I’ve been divorced. Makes me wonder — actually it makes me think — that I may not be such a great wife. I used to think — before the second divorce — that I was infinitely patient, endlessly charming and loving, and had…

No, I’m not a serial killer, not an embezzler, not even a jaywalker. Worse, I’m that person next to you on the plane, at the DMV, or in line at the grocery store who wants to talk, who wants to hear your story. For years — many many years —…

Strictly a first-world rant — The dishwasher saga continues. For the past year, I’ve been trying to buy a dishwasher. Because the water at my place is very hard — and actually stinky — I’ve needed (wanted?) a dishwasher with a built-in water softener. Not all dishwashers have built-in water softeners, so I knew when…

Writing, commies & centipedes: all my mother’s fault — I’ve been writing ever since I was second grader back at St. Joseph’s Catholic School in Bay City, Michigan. I had a wonderful nun, Sister Mary Earl, who encouraged me by reading everything I wrote — and remembering every word — then by tacking all my writing to the wall…

My dreadful, ungrateful, ill-behaved animals — Okay, gang, I have no wish to embarrass any of you — I really don’t — but seriously, enough is friggin’ enough. Okay? And I realize — and I fully acknowledge — that I have way way way too many of you. And, no, I’m not a hoarder. …

Money-hungry Ely — Confession: I have bad animals. And it’s all my fault. I tolerate bad behavior. Ask anyone who knows me: I have a problem saying ‘no,’ to just about anything or anyone. Including animals. There is Ely, a dog of indeterminate lineage, who jumps on my couch. To be expected. …

Tales from the Margarita Road — Anthony Lee Head’s “Driftwood: Tales from the Margarita Road,” is a loosely structured novel set in the fictional Playa Paraiso (Paradise Beach) on the Yucatan Peninsula in the Mexican Caribbean. The book follows expatriate Poppa through a series of short stories that detail the lives of other expats, locals, and…