Great, yet another man’s telling me about my family’s diet.

If they invented a pill that prevented osteoporosis, heart disease, diabetes and dementia as you aged, would you take it? Heck yes. Sign me up. Especially if that pill had a side effect of slimmer hips and a flatter belly. The line to the pharmacy would be out the door.

How much do you know about the stocks you own? Can you list them? Do you know why you own them? What was your rate of return last year?

Jockeying for position in a 20-van deep preschool car pool line. Putting a bathing suit on your dimpled, pale body in the harsh fluorescent light of a cramped dressing room. Hot-flashing while wrestling your toddler into last years’ snow pants because this year’s have gone missing. Reasoning with an unreasonable teenager that it’s 30 below and a sweatshirt really isn’t warm enough.