Jan Bono’s Blog

On this date in 1992, Vice-President Dan Quayle publicly embarrassed himself in front of rolling television cameras when he instructed a student writing on a blackboard during an elementary school spelling bee in Trenton, New Jersey, to “add one little bit to the end”...

I’m not an official Royal Watcher, but I do take an interested peek at them now and again. My grandmother on my mother’s side hailed from Wookey Hole, England, and it was always rumored by my mother that Grandmother and the Queen “were just like that.” (Imagine my...

Eight years ago today, instead of informing everyone I’d “retired” from public school teaching, I simply said, “I am no longer in the institution.” And as I had taught on the Long Beach Peninsula for 29 of my 30 years, I was somewhat of an “institution” here myself,...

Sometimes we can care deeply about someone and still not be able to be in a full-time, boyfriend/girlfriend, exclusive and committed relationship with them. It’s happened to me more than once. It didn’t mean I didn’t love them, it simply meant that I held back a part...

The title did not originate with me, but I don’t think it originated with the woman on the Dr. Oz show who talked about this concept a couple weeks ago either, so I feel no particular obligation to attribute it. Titles can’t be copyrighted anyway. But a good idea is...

I’ve discovered another sad fact about my metabolism. Not only is it the world’s slowest and most efficient calorie hoarder, but apparently it’s going to take incredible daily diligence for me to stay within my self-proclaimed “weight maintenance range. Allowing...