Mary Fioratti

People who work a crossword puzzle and write in the squares with pencil are cheating. I don’t trust anyone who uses a pencil. I bet I don’t even have a single pencil in my house. What would I possibly need one for? I have an assortment of pens and have no use for pencils at [...]

Did you ever play a game called “Post Office”? It was one of those adolescent kissing games that the kids would play at parties. I never was allowed to go to those kinds of parties and I never got to play that game. I don’t even know the rules.

My mom was talking about the days when she was a kid in school. She says that the school would not let anyone go to public school if they were pregnant. One of her friends turned up pregnant and her parents found out and told her she had to get an abortion, which was not [...]

Today I wanted to spend a few hours at the lake, so I packed a small picnic lunch and a couple of cold drinks, found a beach towel in the back of the closet, and grabbed some sunscreen from the medicine cabinet. Then I drove the 6 or 7 miles to the closest sand beach [...]

Charlie Sheen is in the news so often that I’m amazed that his hit television series, Two and a Half Men, is still on the air. It really is a great show, one that I try and catch when I can. The writers deserve a pat on the back and a nice bonus check each [...]