Everyone loves a pregnant woman right? According to these photos that I found on iVillage and Awkward Family Photos, being pregnant doesn’t exempt a woman from making bad photo pose choices. I, for one, am glad that pregnant women are allowed to show the shape of their stomachs. When I was pregnant, we had […]
Always Pick Out Your Own Couch
I rarely write blog posts that are sequels to a previous post, but this is an exception. There’s a first time for everything. (Won’t you be surprised when I send out a form letter at Christmas this year, too.) This is Part II of the story of our Big Blue Flowered Couch. Previously on […]
The Big Blue Flowered Couch
Everyone remembers her very first piece of adult furniture. You know, the first thing that wasn’t a plastic parson’s table, a crate painted peach, a futon, an unframed poster, or anything too big to have fit into your dorm room or your childhood bedroom. For me, it was our big blue flowered couch. It was […]
Sit, Dog-Sit
I’ve decided that dog-sitting is the perfect thing for a person without a dog to do. It’s also a fine thing for a person with a dog, too, but only because dogs are concurrent: If you have one dog and you dog-sit another dog, your work doesn’t double. It’s like serving two jail terms […]
Call 911. My Dendrites are Flatlining.
It was a tough weekend for me and my dendrites. You know, dendrites? The pieces of your brain that get a workout when you do things that are difficult and boring and tedious – things you don’t like to do? You’re supposed to exercise your dendrites a little bit, especially as you get older, […]
Old Movie Fans Are a Little Psycho
Don’t tell me about how the good old days were better than now. I’m not a subscriber to the notion that our country is going to pot, the world is screwed up because kids have no respect for their elders anymore and they’re not smacked around enough, and everything was better 30 years ago. Food […]