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It’s bad enough that Willie is married to a woman who, shall we say, struggles heroically with ADHD, but because we apparently enjoy life on hard mode, I am also fairly deaf. Not “selective hearing” deaf. Legitimate, doctor-confirmed, I-own-hearing-aids deaf. Now, hearing loss by itself is not usually comedic material. ADHD, however, very much is. And when you combine the two, you don’t get a mild inconvenience—you get a full-blown communication carnival featuring wild misinterpretations, accidental rudeness, and a whole lot

Grandson dropped in for a weekend visit, and honestly, we mostly just sat there blinking like a pair of porch-possums caught in a flashlight beam while he regaled us with tales from his globe-trotting life. His job takes him everywhere—places we have to look up twice to spell—so we got the full download: world cultures, shifting opinions about America, and, naturally, the serious essentials… like how terrifying it is to need an Uber at 1

As much as I love to joke around, I read a report the other day that flat-out shook me like a squirrel on a power line. And while I firmly believe humor is nature’s duct tape—holding us together when everything else is falling apart—sometimes, you’ve just got to get serious. The report said that in the U.S., of the top ten medications most commonly prescribed, five are diabetes treatments. Five! Half the list! (Although, let’s

I know folks tend to shrink back like startled armadillos when I mention how much I’ve always loved Shakespeare, but y’all clearly aren’t paying attention to the good stuff. Yes, some of the stories are long enough to require snacks and maybe an intermission nap, and sure, the comedies have jokes none of us are ever going to understand without a decoder ring, but the man gifted us with vocabulary that could spice up even

Heard a couple of new ones the (at least new to me). Apparently, when one Southerner is presenting a truly terrible plan to another, we’re supposed to just smile politely and say, “That dog won’t hunt.” Translation: bless your heart, but absolutely not. Honestly, it might become my new motto. I can almost see it embroidered on a pillow. And then there’s the classic: “Sweatin’ more than a sinner in church.”Now that one makes perfect