Nancy Franklin's MirthquakesThis website is about life's absurdities
Okay, I’ll admit it. I watched the premiere of “The Golden Bachelor.” I wasn’t alone. So did 4.1 million others, making it the most-watched “Bachelor” franchise episode since 2021. I also will confess that I have…
Which may be one of our funerals, the way we’re going. Have you heard about the “specialness spiral?” I learned about it just recently. It describes how an item can become so “special” that we fail…
I’ve hesitated to write this piece. Probably because, back in February, I wrote a piece about Madonna after seeing her on the Grammys. She was unrecognizable to me, and I questioned whether her transformation was about…
Are you there, God? I’m back. I know it’s been awhile, but remember when I was praying for my first period? I would have prayed for a date with David Cassidy, instead, if I’d known that…
Recently, I was having lunch on a bright and lovely day with my daughter and her roommate in their apartment, not far from where her father and I live. My daughter has been “adulting” for several…
Can I handle the truth? My husband and I are on the other side of 65. I would like to think I’m gracefully taking aging in stride; I stopped coloring my hair, am writing and reading…
My husband and I have decided that we are going to spend the rest of our lives walking around the house saying “What?!” to each other until one of us dies. We don’t have a big…
Really?! According to PEOPLE Magazine, Kim Kardashian, in an interview with the New York Times said, “If you told me that I literally had to eat poop every single day and I would look younger, I…
