Books

By Terri Schlichenmeyer, November 2018 Web Exclusive. You’re late! Oops, you overslept, got caught in traffic, the elevator was slow. Phone lines were down, email was down. [...]

By Terri Schlichenmeyer, October 2018 Issue. You can’t stop your feet. They need to move, to tap-tap-tap, to side step and do-si-do. The music’s on and you gotta move. [...]

By Terri Schlichenmeyer, September 2018 Issue. You felt surprisingly safe. There you were, in a place that was certainly iffy, but you were totally comfortable there. No [...]

By Terri Schlichenmeyer, July 2018 Issue. You can’t look any longer. Whatever it is, it’s just too painful, too scary, so you hide your eyes and pretend that nothing’s [...]

By Terri Schlichenmeyer, July 2018 Web Exclusive. You are the champion of all-time. Nobody can beat you; nobody can even tie your record. When it comes to thumb-wresting, you [...]

By Terri Schlichenmeyer, June 2018 Web Exclusive. People will talk. And that can be a bad thing: gossip is often mean, and its shelf-life is sometimes longer than we’d [...]

By Terri Schlichenmeyer, May 2018 Issue. The jewelry you wear tells a story. A ring on your left hand, third finger, says to the world that you stood up once and vowed to [...]

By Terri Schlichenmeyer, May 2018 Issue. Elephants, rhinos, hippos and giraffes. Skyscrapers, mammoths and Jupiter. Sequoias, Sasquatch, blue whales … and mice. One of [...]

By Terri Schlichenmeyer, April 2018 Issue. You had no idea. How could you know? No one ever told you, nobody sat you down to explain what was what. You were blissfully [...]

By Terri Schlichenmeyer, March 2018 Issue. You look sharp today. This morning, you dressed with determination, putting confidence on your body in order to put it in your [...]

By Terri Schlichenmeyer, March 2018 Issue. Just like in the movies, you’d planned to grow old together. You’d be the couple everyone smiled at: two wrinkled beings, [...]

By Terri Schlichenmeyer, February 2018 Issue. You’re not in any hurry. The ring’s on your finger, the engagement was just announced, and you both feel like you’ve got [...]

By Terri Schlichenmeyer, January 2018 Issue. Last year, this season was particularly rough. Every time you opened a newspaper or turned on the computer or TV, it seemed as [...]