Sleeping in the bathtub seemed like my only choice — Fancy a relaxing soak to melt away the aches and pains of life? Not so fast. The ultimate in self-care might just be your downfall. 234,000 Americans a year end up in the emergency room after a bathroom injury. …

It's all complicated when you have an injury — It's bad enough that wearing a bra is mandatory for large-chested women if you want to fight the sag and avoid flashing jiggling headlights at innocent bystanders, now imagine trying to put it on one-handed. "Is there anything I can do to help?" my daughter asked when I arrived back…

It starts when they come out, but it doesn't end there — It isn’t all down and it isn't all up Parenting teenagers is never a walk in the park. Unless that park is an amusement park. And I'm not talking about Disneyland either, where all problems are carefully concealed to create the happiest place on earth. No, for most of us, parenting teenagers is like the rundown carnival on the…

One foot in front of the other works until it doesn't — Only one thing was real, more real to me now than the past that we lost for the future we didn't have: if I put one foot in front of another, the path would move me forward and a strip of dirt, often no more than a foot wide, had…

Is there nothing and nowhere they can't be happy ironing? — I currently have a broken wrist, a bruised and seriously scraped-up other arm, and a deeply bruised hip that threatens to buckle under me anytime I try to put any weight on it. Oh, and my husband just left the country for two weeks. Don't worry about me, I'll be…

Giving to others is part of a healthy path forward — A tall, broad ex-soldier asked us for money, and when we told him we had none and were homeless ourselves, he didn't question it, but gave us directions to a soup kitchen. Moth gave him some coins and his last chocolate bar. We had very little left, so we wandered…

And should I feel honored or offended? — “You aren’t from around here are you?” said the man at the boutique liqueurs booth. He didn’t wait for an answer but barreled on conversationally as he poured sample drinks for us. “No, I could tell right away from your accent that you‘re Canadian. My mum’s Canadian and I can…

Or why you shouldn’t ride an electric scooter on cobblestone paths. — No one wants to be stuck in long lines at airport security, passport control or waiting to board a plane. There is a solution and it costs you nothing but a little bit of pain or in my case a lot of pain. …

Create memories without wearing yourself out or spending too much — Maybe you are as excited about throwing a party as the birthday child is about having one or maybe you have been dragged here kicking and screaming by the pleading of your child or your own sense of cultural obligation. …