My husband and I went to another really fun event where people got up and danced and all I had to do was look over at him and he got a guilty look on his face and said, “But I had to go to Home Depot!” That’s his excuse for not taking salsa dance […]
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Kids, I Love You, But Are You Still Here?
I’m definitely thinking about writing another book, especially since I only have one more year until my contract runs out on this job as Stay-at-Home Mom. (I’m pretty sure you’re forced into retirement after the last child moves out of the house.) I came to this decision after the wild, unprecedented success of my […]
For the Love of Supplies
My mother-in-law and I were running errands the other day and she was going into Sally’s, the beauty supply store where average everyday people off the street can buy the stuff that hairdressers use in their salons. “Do you need anything from Sally’s?” she asked. “No.” “Do you want to come in with me?” […]
Give Me Back My Laney!
I’m having the darndest time holding onto my Laney. It’s surprising, really, that in 2010, when Ms. magazine is in the quaint-retro-antique section of the library, that someone could have such a difficult time keeping her maiden name without seeming like a radical feminist bitch. I’ve gone by a trio of names for 26 […]
Open Season on Hunting
Our friends Jackie and David are coming for dinner tonight and I’m feeling inadequate because I don’t have some wild animal on the menu. David is a hunting, wild-man outdoorsman from Kentucky who has guns and other weapons in places where the rest of us keep a box of Puffs. My husband got into […]
Everyone’s Entitled to My Opinion
There’s a writer in San Francisco who recently wrote an excellent column about how Americans are such whiners and we’re never happy and we want, want, want and we expect too much and nothing is ever good enough. We could elect Jesus Christ as president and we’d complain that he wasn’t healing enough lepers […]