I’m trying to keep up, really I am. My husband encourages me to stay abreast of new technologies (he seems sincere, but it’s possible that he just wants to say ‘breast’ in a serious conversation). So in an effort to be hip and not-dinosaur-like, I’ve done the following: I dove into Facebook and have reconciled […]
When Bad Hair Day and School Picture Day Collide
What is it about school pictures? The one day of the year that your third-grade hair should just lay down and shut up already, and yet that hardly ever happens. I don’t watch much daytime TV (speaking of shutting up, do it), but occasionally I flip on Ellen and sometimes it’s just when she’s […]
No Shooters for the Piano Player
My favorite thing about spring is the kids’ piano recital. All the practicing, all the hours sitting in the car playing solitaire on my iPhone during the lessons, all the scrambling to find the music every Tuesday. It’s all worth it when you get to the recital and see that your child’s name is […]
I Think My Spaceship Knows Which Way to Go
High school kids are hopeless. Maybe not all of them, but enough of them that if you took the whole lot of them and stuffed them into a spaceship and sent it off to orbit the earth for about four years, what would the downside be? Besides the smell? OK, maybe sports would suffer […]
Crazy Like Fox
Finally, something to blog about where the blog just writes itself. I was getting my car “maintenanced” this week and spent about 90 minutes in a car dealership waiting room. This is a new experience for me. I normally ignore the large print that says you should take your car into the dealership […]
Promises, Promises
I was listening to Old People’s Radio yesterday morning and they’ve really outdone themselves. Really, they shouldn’t have. They played a Burt Bacharach medley, sung by the King of Smooth himself. What a nice way to start a day, with a morning of Make It Easy on Yourself while ass high school seniors and dads […]