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The most alarming thing about being home alone, aside from being cast in a geezer version of the famous Macaulay Culkin movie, is setting off the house alarm and having to tell my wife, Sue, who left me home alone, that I could have been arrested for being in our own house.
It’s a good thing I’m not a business magnate because I couldn’t sell refrigerators in Death Valley. If I could, I’d be a refrigerator magnate.
After 32 years of marriage, there’s not a lot of surprises. Steve and I know and expect certain things from one another. For example, Steve is an early bird. That guy is always up before the sunrise, perky and productive. Like a rooster on crack.
Laughter, goes an old saying, is the best medicine. And, I would add, because I’m old myself, the cheapest.
Kristen Mulrooney spent seven years “writing in 10-minute increments” around caring for three young children. What could she do with some alone time? In two weeks she wrote 75,000 words — the first draft of a humorous novel — in a hotel room in Dayton, Ohio.
Look, I enjoy Halloween just as much as the next gal. Let me rephrase that. I love Halloween. But when I won this writing residency, I thought it would be my time to write without distractions.
