Oh no you di-unt! I’ve got four months and five days so get off my freaking back. Well, it happened. Or as my son might’ve said when he was about 6: “So, how’d it go being an old lady?” I got the letter. You know which one I’m talking about. The AARP invitation. Imagine […]
An Open Letter to You College Brochure Sender-Outers
Oddly, this photo didn’t make it into Swarthmore’s 62-page color brochure TO: All U.S. colleges and universities, private, public and in between FROM: Mom of a high school junior Dear sirs, What is the matter with you? What are you people doing over there? My son, who is ending his junior year of high […]
Antibacterial Soap Operas
Despite the Ghost-and-Mrs.-Murish intro, The Secret Storm was not scary I was flipping through the channels yesterday and – did you know that soap operas are still on TV? I’m a little bit surprised. I thought the Soap Opera Digests that I saw in the grocery checkout line were collectibles. I found two […]
You’re Dead to Me
I don’t know how they got this DUI mugshot of Rip Torn from 2006. He’s been dead for years. This is embarrassing. I was just on MSNBC a minute ago (see previous blog about my confessions of a news junkie) and saw a little rectangle in the upper right corner that Sydney Pollack died. […]
When Teens and Young Adults Fend For Themselves
The last time I left these guys home alone they did irreversible things with corn and film. My kids stayed alone for a weekend while I went to Florida for a last-ditch attempt to find a house for us. On my end, it was somewhat successful. my husband and I looked at two houses, […]
Beauty Tips from Religious Extremists
“Women on the ranch, they’ve suggested, simply look young, because they don’t wear makeup and their all-natural diet keeps their skin healthy. They avoid almost all processed foods and all of their dairy products come from their own cows – cheese, butter and unpasteurized milk.” And they keep their bangs out of their eyes. […]