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When you break a tooth that you’ve already had a root canal on, you root for your dentist to get to the root of the problem.

USA Today calls Adriana Trigiani "one of the reigning queens of women's fiction." Her latest book, The View From Lake Como, is a bighearted, hilarious novel of the moment: the story of one woman's determination to live a creative life that matters, with enough room left over for love.

Thanks to the wonderful values instilled in me at Saint Michael’s College in Colchester, Vermont, where I graduated magna cum lager, I do not (as yet) have a criminal record.

If a shampoo were ever named after me, which would work everyone else into a lather, it would be called Empty Head & Shoulders.

That’s because I have more gray matter on the outside of my head than I do on the inside.

As chairman of the bored in my house, a responsibility I take sitting down, I am thrilled to announce that I have a new chair in my office.

My only worry is that, as with all the other chairs I have ever had, I will lose possession of this one to either my wife or — this has actually happened before — a dog.

One of the Helicopter Mom’s greatest tools is texting. I know many would say the Life 360 App is the best, but I confess, I have never used it. I’m still old school. I still remember the days when my parents had no idea where I was and what I was doing. And, for that reason, and the fact that if I used that app, I would be a wreck, I have refused to use it. But I was a habitual heli-texter. Yes, you heard me right... "was." I am proud to announce most of my heli-texting days are probably over.

On May 23, 1985, a date which will live in journalistic infamy, my first humor column was published. Now, 40 years later, I am still writing it for two unsound reasons: I am spectacularly unqualified to do anything else and nobody has stopped me.