Today’s one-liner comes to you courtesy of master blogger, extraordinary photographer, and frequent commertor Dan Antion. My Sunday writing prompt was: Write about something that might be good or might be deadly. Dan’s response was: My answer to “does this dress make me look fat?”…

First, it’s the first of the month, so there’s a new micro-mini story on my Hot Flashes page. This is the last one. I’ve been doing one a month for quite a few years, now, and I’m out of juice. Maybe I’ll pick it up…

My mother got a job with a fully owned subsidiary of Corning Glass Works (original maker of Corningware and Corelle) when I was pretty young. Then Corning merged the company she worked with into itself, and moved the offices to Corning, New York when I…