I’m not sure what Christmas means to me anymore.
To my children it’s a wonderful time of year filled with wishes and cookies and Santa Claus and sparkly things.
To me, it’s a Dickensian mix of shadows cloaked in chains, bacchanalia, sprigs of holly and Tiny Tim’s enduring hope. Christmas music, particularly Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker Suite” and [...]
To: Sibling in town for the holidays
From: Your stressed-out sister
Re: Our lack of any quality time together other than over pre-Thanksgiving dinner cocktails and post-dinner mumblings between pie and coffee
Relationships are a two-way street. While you are the out-of-towner, remember it is your vacation time and not mine. You happened to visit during a time [...]
with apologies to Jack Handy:
I think there should be rules for blogging. Like, if I read on your blog that every once in a while you slip into a wet suit, recline on a chaise longue and listen to “Madama Butterfly” while your Irish Setter licks your bare feet, I won’t mention it when I [...]
“At what point do our interests, passions and pastimes cross over into that shadowy zone that separates normal and pathological?” *
This is the question I ask myself after reading this article on the Psychology Today Web site. I found it through a link on Twitter. I was on Twitter after a quick check of e-mail and [...]
Most of my readers are not from Detroit.
They’re from Russia. They’re robots. They leave me long, detailed comments about things like Viagra and practices that are illegal in this country. Their comments often don’t correspond with what I’ve posted, but that’s OK. They love me.
But a few readers are real people and they live in [...]
If I had a dime for every time someone said to me, “Hey, you should start a blog,” I’d have a bunch of dimes.
They say to me: “I saw on Oprah/The Today Show/The View this woman who left her job/was fired /suffered from post-partum depression/chewed off her right arm and started writing about it on [...]
Mary, who runs the whole operation over at the Mama Mary Show tagged me on this one. It’s the brainchild of another blogger, Her Bad Mother,who is trying to fly this one around the globe. So, I’ll do my part and then pass it on.
Five things I love about motherhood:
The bond of love between mother [...]
I was annoyed recently to discover some faux Web sites, called splogs, have stolen my content for the purpose of marketing and moneymaking. These content scrapers and spinning spammers have plucked my words without a sound, a credit or a link. The bastards.
Maybe you already know about all this. If not, there are steps you [...]
I’m not a Fisher Price Little People character, but I play one on the Internet. In my fantasy life, I’d live in a dust-free dollhouse where I’d have control of all the game pieces. I’d have a perfect, plastic hairdo and a nice painted-on smile.
But, life isn’t a toy. It’s a game, for sure. And [...]
It’s difficult to live two lives simultaneously. Just ask Clark Kent or Bruce Wayne.
Just ask the secret polygamist.
Do women do this? Most women I know think their husbands, children and households are more than enough. Why they’d take on multiples would be beyond my comprehension.
Except in the realm of the superhero. In this world, a [...]
