The objects listed below, while provided free in a swag bag from Mom’s Night Out recently, are included of my own volition because: a) They saved me time b) They made me look efficient or otherwise put together to people who don’t know better c) They delivered coffee into my mouth at…Continue Reading
Archives for May 2010
May’s Book
This month’s book club book is Call Me Your Name.
Social Toddler
Check out this site to find playgroups in your area, plan play events, have parent discussions, share photos and set up playdates. It’s a veritable social networking site for parents.
That’s My Brother Over There
My brother and his styley wife, Jill, were on a home improvement show recently where their NYC deck was transformed into deliciousness. Check it out here. Try to make it to the end where you can enjoy the sounds of my broham’s nervous chuckling upon the deck reveal.
The LA Story
Remember how The Rock and I went to Los Angeles to celebrate our ninth wedding anniversary? Yeah, me neither. Already those memories of alone time and afternoon nookie have been covered with back-to-real-life goings ons such as wiping other people’s butts and packing borderline-nutritious school lunches. Still, I’d like to see…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #106: Turning Point, A Fork Stuck in the Road
You know how you look back on your life and recognize certain moments that changed things forever? How you could have gone this way or that way, but you choose the way over there, and you’re a different person because of it? For me, that moment was when I moved from Chicago to Los…Continue Reading
Of Marine Animals and Invertebrates
A soft-bodied marine animal without a backbone. Slightly adjunct to last week’s post is that Toots had a jellyfish report due today. An oral report. Of facts she had to memorize. Accompanied by a poster board of pictures she drew to illustrate her supporting points. Points like jellyfish lifecycles and animal classification. …Continue Reading
The Cult of Biggerality
Why didn’t you people tell me about the overachieving parents at elementary school? Was it a hard lesson you thought I should learn myself? Like how no one tells you your butt will hurt four years after giving birth? I don’t know, I guess I thought that kindergarten would be more low-key. Like maybe…Continue Reading
Soul Questions
WHY, OH WHY INDEED “Why are you doing this?” It was a simple question, surely. Referring to something I’ve been doing continuously for nine years, but why, WHY? What do I hope to get out of it? That was his next question. He and I were sitting at a bar…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #105: On Repeat
I don’t know why, I really, really don’t: But the lines I’m going to share below have repeated in my head lately. I first published this sometime in 2008 (PROMPTuesday #13 to be exact) and I want to provide the story starter again. I feel like it’s singing a siren song. You get that,…Continue Reading
