Corn casserole is a potluck trap. Once you’ve made it once, you’re not allowed to make anything else.

I heard Ralph Stanley sing it at a conference on campus not long after. The chills in the room were as if Death had entered the auditorium and was standing just over your shoulder.

“I just feel like women—they have minds and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they’ve got ambition and they’ve got talent, as well as just beauty. And I’m so sick of people saying that love is just all a woman is fit for. I’m so sick of it… But I’m so lonely.”

Do you have suggestions for using mascara on hooded eyes that are starting to droop? I have longish eyelashes but they’re being obscured by my drooping eyelids.

I gave in and restarted allergy shots this year, having last had them forty years ago.

I’m feeling frustrated right now. I’ve been using the Nightstand Central app on my iPad for years, very happily, but with IOS 11, the app no longer works, and the Apple clock app isn’t working well either. Anyone having luck with any other app and IOS 11?

I’m finding 54 to be liberating, now that I’m past the last three years. 2016 was very hard — my father died and my job was excruciatingly stressful. I’ve recovered from the grief, and I’m nearly done as executor. I stepped down from that awful program director job and went back to faculty. And now, I’ve reached the…

I have a lot of issues with Mother’s Day. My mom was mentally ill, and a lot of her illness was concentrated on keeping me under her control. It was hard to break out, and by the time she passed away, I had developed a lot of emotional baggage and severe clinical depression. Then she passed, very quickly, the Monday…

My experience as a college professor has convinced me that the ‘digital generation’ has a broad but very shallow understanding of technology. They know how to do a very few things with a variety of devices and apps, but not much more than that.