Yes, I know what day it is this week. I made a mistake last week, okay? Let’s all get over it. All right, I know I’m the only one who noticed or cared or still cares, but indulge me while I pretend my massive fan…

My mother and I just watched the new (not-so-new by this time) Star Trek movie (Thanks for the loan, Jane!). It was most enjoyable, but not, alas, for the reasons the people involved in it hoped it would be. My #4 daughter said, “You’re the…

That’s what our kids used to call hominy. Hominy, in case you don’t know, is corn kernels soaked in lye so the hulls come off. Then the lye and hulls are washed away. If the kernels are then dried and coarsely ground, you get grits.…