My ninety year old mother fell. Again. This time she broke her leg. Or should I say her other leg; this is the second leg she has broken this year. My mother is tough as nails and she’ll recover. But it’s not just the recuperation weeks, it’s the time spent in the ER with her that I find grueling. “You know this is all bullshit,” she will inevitably say while we sit in a cold, sterile room waiting for someone to see us. “I have a broken leg. I can feel it. I just need to lie

Jim Gaffigan is one of my favorite comedians. His humor is dark but family friendly. Unlike a lot of male comedians today, he rarely talks about his sex life in graphic detail. I fully appreciate his discretion. But one thing he does talk a lot about is McDonald’s. "I reference McDonald’s a lot because I go to McDonald’s a lot," he said to a packed auditorium on one of his live specials. There was no response from the audience at all. They were silent. "Oh please!" he admonis

As a fashion photographer I work with a lot of young people. I too was once an enthusiastic and bouncy youngster. But alas, time marches on and now I’m what we refer to (in Fashionland anyway) as a dinosaur. Not that I mind really. Dinosaurs are sort of cool. Or at least that's what I tell myself when sauntering into a studio full of collagen-rich colleagues born in the year 2000 or later. The only problem with the age difference between me and my co-workers is the references

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