I am a man so pardon my ignorance. Do you think these dresses are expensive for what they are? You’d be hard pressed to find a presentable suit in this price range, plus you have to have a shirt and tie. Of course men can wear their suits for all kinds of occasions and some of these dresses do seem a little…

I became a great uncle at the age of 39. My sibling is older than me but not by much…

The muscle tee would also be good for Man A shakes Man B’s hand and also grips Man B’s right forearm or elbow with his left hand. I do this myself and have it done to me a lot.

“Your insurmountable lead is getting eaten into by a socialist from Vermont. No real question, just thought that was weird.”

This actually came up. Joe Lieberman was the Democratic VP candidate in 2000 and had Gore won (or I should say, had Gore been inaugurated) Inauguration Day, January 20, 2001, was a Saturday. When Inauguration Day falls on a Sunday (this just happened in 2013) they have a small swearing in ceremony and then the public…

Maybe Arlo Day was named in some kind of homage to Arlo Guthrie? In Massachusetts (where Guthrie lives, I believe) there probably is an Arlo Day, like National Pancake Day.

The first movie I ever remember seeing was at a drive-in (!) Disney’s “Song of the South.” I’m not sure you can even get it anymore. I’m a late-stage baby boomer so the town had a drive-in and Disney nights. My best buddy’s father had a station wagon that could comfortably seat at least 12 kids and you could…

I love babies and gladly grab any and all that are given to me. (I might be the only man in America that volunteers to change diapers.) That said, a couple of friends of mine say, “I’d better not, I think I might be coming down with something.” Vague enough that you don’t get thrown out of the setting but plausible…

Is Jolie Kerr still around Jezebel? She was “Ask a Clean Person.” She had/has a solution for everything.

I was at a party recently (here I go again with this “I was at a party recently” business) and got talking with a woman who is my height, 6’ 4”. And very, very athletic. Beautiful, just stunning. I asked her whether she had ever dated a man taller than her and she laughed and said, “Where would I find one?”

You shouldn’t feel bad for contracting scabies. Did you ever have head lice as a child, or as a parent? Did you ever have a dog that had mange (mange is scabies.) It’s like feeling unworthy for catching the flu.

Boston accents are incredibly tough to pull off. Even Mark Wahlberg has trouble doing one by now.

One of my distant relatives used to watch 7th Heaven religiously, pun (and reality) intended. I once said to her, “You do realize this is parody, don’t you?” I watched it with her once and purposely laughed at completely inappropriate moments and on the fly I would say, “See, the joke here is…”

You are moving in the wrong direction! Come to New York. My dog is quite the ladies’ man and would be your dog’s best friend.

Pardon my ignorance but why would anyone discount what you have to say because of autism? I have limited experience with it but the people I’ve met on the spectrum were highly intelligent and informative about all kinds of things, they just didn’t necessarily chat in the usual informal way. Some of them didn’t like…

The Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack! When I was growing up my sister and I were little hellions and Christmas Day was just absolute chaos, the screaming, the wrapping paper going everywhere, our dog so freaked out she’d have accidents, ornaments falling off the tree, a big dinner to get on the table for in-laws who…

At the ripe old age of 23 I was a corporate trainer. I worked alone though but because I was so young often someone else from the training department would sit in during at least part of the sessions. The trainees filled out feedback cards, as did my department colleague. The feedback wasn’t always positive but it was…

Good luck with His Holiness! Here in New York things went really smoothly but I don’t drive.

Cheese-filled orrechiette with a garlic sausage tomato sauce. I wish I could say that I made the orrechiette and the sausage myself but I did not. I’m bringing a big bowl of it up to my roof to look at the blood/harvest moon. Hopefully some of my neighbors will be up there so I can snuggle in with them and tell them I…

In Europe they often serve table wines in regular glasses. To somewhat mask my prodigous alcohol consumption around my husband I pour my wine into one of our water glasses. Each holds just about 3/4 of a bottle.