For some reason, my “About” page has become a magnet for ads about sex toys. I double-checked – nothing I said refers to animals, fetishes or battery-operated plastic devices. Good grief. Last week, some guy named ‘Edward’ (with a thick south-east Asian accent) from Microsoft kept calling the home phone at dinner time, of course, to tell me that I had a computer virus that he could fix. Last year when this happened, Hub told the guy we didn’t have any computers. Worked for a long time, but they’ve probably shopped our number around or we just came up in the scammers’ lottery. Edward was doing a lot of ‘ma’am’-ing and asking how was my day. The first time he called, I said that…

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