Before I start in on the Derby party I went to last Saturday, let me get this right out in the public eye: The whole time we lived in Lexington, Kentucky, self-proclaimed Horse Capital of the World, I never went to the Kentucky Derby, even though it was a mere hour’s drive and I […]
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Twitter Tweaks
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 […]