Tracy Beckerman column: Getting up on the wrong side of the bed

Columns share an author’s personal perspective.*****“I need a new bed,” I said to the salesman. “We are upgrading from a queen to a king.” After 30 years of marriage my husband had decided he was the king of our castle and thus required a bed befitting his authority. Of course, the real reason was because our bed was so old that one of the slats on the frame was broken and our mattress sagged so far in the middle that when we both got into bed, we […]  » Read More