You know how sometimes you find that special store where you go in, look around, make eye contact with the lovely salespeople, and you just know. That’s what it was like visiting the gun store. And then you think, this would be an awesome place to take the kids for a fun outing! You exchange […]
MoreSurviving Middle School I think I would have flunked Middle School if I were going through it now. These 6th Grade Teachers are INTENSE! The emails they send, the hours of homework they assign, the sheer number of details the tweeners are expected to remember is both awesome and daunting. I genuinely cannot read their […]
MoreI’ve been talking to a close friend of mine who has been married for a long time about her troubled marriage. I’ve inquired discreetly about what the major stumbling block seems to be. “Infidelity?” “Not really.” “Abuse?” “No, no. Nothing like that.” “Is your husband gay?” “He doesn’t have interior decorating skills, so that’s unlikely.” […]
MoreAre You Waiting for Loufest? You Should Be! What should parents do when their kids are stressed out about the start of school? Abandon them! We are taking a vacation from parenting this weekend. It’s going to be AWESOME. We have a two day pass to Loufest Music Festival and have hired someone to parent our […]
MoreNo One Understands Me For Some Reason. Am I Weird? Are you one of those people that engages with the people you run into during your day, or do you keep chit-chat to a minimum? I am that person that makes others uncomfortable by talking to them on the elevator, and advises complete strangers that […]
MoreI was very relieved to receive a response text from my childhood friend yesterday. She works at Texas A&M in College Station, Texas where a shooter opened fire and killed two people, injuring many others yesterday. I know I’m not the only one wondering WTF? Like you, I have been appalled at the recent spate […]
MoreSummer Loving Happened So Fast Seriously, where does the time go? My kids go back to school in eight days. EIGHT! I feel like I should have more to show for myself as to how we spent the summer. True, I did take the kids on a whirlwind tour of the east coast, but that […]
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