This is my sister, Jennifer. She is also my best friend, even though she ignores most of my calls and never listens to my very important voice mails about where to get a free donut or you should call mom because she said you’re not answering her calls either and she thinks you might be dead.  I KNOW YOU’RE THERE.  Also, she is never on time and if you think you will be the one to change that, you are wrong.  YOU ARE WRONG!  One time, when my sister decided …

I’ve made it a point, on this website, to refrain from any real discussion of my other sibling, with whom I have a very strained relationship, if you can even call it that. I will not go into detail about the things that keep us from speaking to one another, but to say that we both likely feel quite justified in our respective positions adverse to one another. Isn’t that always how it works?  In our family we’re very good at one thing, and that’s the silent treatment.  An …