You know how there are different stages of life? Some times, for years, everyone is getting married. All of your friends and your siblings, everyone you know is getting married. You spend weekend after weekend going to showers and weddings and bachelorette parties and receptions and sometimes even your own personal wedding. Then that […]
Summer Reading Crashes Party; 2 Injured
If this book is on your child’s summer reading list, you need to run for school board. Gah! I almost forgot about summer reading! I’ve been planning my summer with the precision of a CIA operation. My calendar is color-coded now, despite 14 years I spent making fun of a woman I knew in […]
Goodbye, Law. Goodbye, Order
So long, Lupo. Bye, Connie Rubirosa. Bye, Lt. Van Buren, Paul, Max, Fontana, Abbie Carmichael. So long super-model ADA’s, token Hispanic detective and token black lawyer. Bye, Dr. Olivet, Adam, Arthur, Serena and Nora. I’ll miss you, guest cameos Rudy Giuliani and Bill Kunstler. Arrivederci, guest creepsters Gary Busey, Chevy Chase and Jim Gaffigan. […]
Drive-Ins: Still an Option for Bad Parenting
Believe it or not, there are still drive-in movie theaters all over the country. Not where you live, of course, but everywhere else. There are lists online of all the drive-ins all over the heartland. At first glance, you might think there are tons of them, but many of the listings have “dark” written […]
Sore Throat Simpatico
So that’s why I always had a sore throat. I wasn’t smoking enough Philip Morris cigarettes. I’m on the edge of my driver’s seat following Lisa Stewart’s sore throat. Every morning, I turn on my car radio while I’m driving my daughter to school and I listen to Lisa Stewart report the local sports […]
Every Wedding Needs an Aunt
Wedding cookies obviously made by an overachieving Pittsburgh wedding aunt. I’m going to Baltimore soon for my niece’s wedding. Emily is my sister Reenie’s first baby. And even though she will be wearing a stunning J. Crew wedding gown when I see her next, I’ll still picture her as a big-cheeked, whispy-haired baby whenever […]