This morning I was wrenched abruptly out of a deep sleep by my wretched cell-phone alarm, just in time to drive my 16-year-old daughter to school. She was awake when I went to bed and awake when I woke up. How does she do this? She’s in the prime sleeping years of her life! I slogged up the stairs, puffy-eyed, in my […]
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“Hit my brakes, out slid Skittles“ - Sir Mix-A-Lot, My Hooptie, 1989 My car has a small piece of a wire hanger sticking out of its front grille that serves as a pull for the latch that opens the hood. My car is a metallic champagne 1988 Merecedes Benz 300E. Legend has it that the original owner of this car was the professional basketball player Detlef Shrempf of […]
