Lisa — I didn’t “deride” my wife’s opinion as “mere female thinking,” I just noted it. Mrs. D is indeed sagacious about the feeling stuff**, and her sagacity frequently floors me. And if I were to deride her on this or anything, I’d be sleeping on the couch, which is lumpy, and too short for my too-long legs.

I’m afraid it is true, though, as the old saying goes, that every man nurses the dream of going to bed with a beautiful woman and waking up alone.

** A friend, many years ago, expressed his frustration with a difficult woman thus: “She’s a different moods person.” Every guy know what is meant.