Will You Heed the Call?

In our household, my partner loves to watch Entertainment Tonight. We only have one TV, so he learns how so many people are heeding their calling (or at the very least who’s divorcing whom). But as soon as the credits start to roll, I flip the channel. Now he must ‘suffer’ through the last half of Murder, She Wrote. Compromise? Maybe.

I’m not interested in celebrity gossip, but sometimes that thirty-minute broadcast — even though I try not to pay attention — offers a gem. That gem for me came...