by Rhonda Rhea @RhondaRhea If you’re taking my blood pressure and you tell me to “breathe normally,” I hope you’ll understand when suddenly I can do anything but that. I could breathe normally until you told me to. It’s not rebellion. It’s more…psychosis, I guess. I might also subsequently be asking…

by Rhonda Rhea @RhondaRhea It’s satisfying to find new ways to get to know people. For instance, I learn a lot when I see how a person responds to an expiration date. One person’s red alert: “You ate that Shredded Wheat a day after the date on the box? Thou shalt…

by Rhonda Rhea @RhondaRhea I’m pondering all the calories I’ve burned so far today. About four of them probably. Total. Maybe five if you count that one extra-fierce stretch as I was getting up from my desk. I’m going to blame the whole thing on being a writer with too many…

by Rhonda Rhea @RhondaRhea Food storage containers are handy beasts. That’s why most of us have that one cabinet full of them. Open the cabinet door, release the little brutes, they tumble out in a beast party of happy-clattery plastic. They’re the best. But also sometimes they’re the worst. Because: nine…

by Rhonda Rhea @RhondaRhea I’m going to be honest here, I’m the kind of person who would like to get a new car every year. It’s not about having a fancy car, mind you. I don’t really care about that. The reason I need a new one is that unless the…

by Rhonda Rhea @RhondaRhea I’m all kinds of thankful that alarm clocks have come a long way. And by “come a long way,” I mean we hardly use them anymore. We now have phones to awaken us with our favorite song. Or a verse, a mantra, a cheer. Or with church…