Our favorite drive-in movie theater is for sale. Immediately upon reading about this news, Doug and I played our favorite “what if” game. As in, what if we found an investor so that we could buy it? We could hire Tommy and all of his extremely bright Aspie friends to work at the theater. We […]
My children get whiny and my husband gets cranky whenever I leave the house, so outings for anything other than taxi services are rare. I tried to create a weekly outing to write without ten thousand interruptions, but that fell apart. Undaunted, I left the teenagers in charge and spent some time at a School […]
10 INPUT “Mom, do you want to see my *poison ivy rash oozing?” 20 OUTPUT “Sound of Mother gagging.” 30 GOTO 10 *I have also been asked: “tooth hanging by a thread?” “bug collection?” “present from the cat that the dog is eating?” “footprints from the dog poo I squished with my shoe?” “bed where […]
I’m blogging about my bad parenting over at Scholastic Parents.
Doug: “What are you watching?” Me: “Fame.” Doug: “I guess this was our generation’s High School Musical.” Me: “Are you seriously comparing Sir Alan Parker‘s work to a sugar cube dipped in fake chocolate?” Let’s compare. Is this the same style, maturity or quality as this?
Last week, I sat down to clean and re-pack the crate of emergency “supplies” that live in the van. Sarah wandered by as I emptied some nearly full coloring books and a box of crayons. “Can I have those crayons?” I said yes even though I was surprised that it was Sarah instead of Amy […]
Several years ago, I posted a list of some of the concerts in my past just so that people could call me old. All the Bonnaroo chatter makes me think about the concerts that I wish I could have attended. So, alphabetically, I wish I could have been in the audience for: Aerosmith Beatles David […]
Remember last year, when we started seeing trailers for Up and it looked like a cute children’s cartoon? Those trailers were right and they were wrong. Unlike other Pixar cartoons that are made for children with a nod to the adults who accompany them, Up is a film for adults that is safe for children. […]
Question: Why do you get so worked up about things that don’t affect you? Why do you get so angry when people insist that who you love is a choice? Because it is no more a choice than if you are right handed or left handed. I spent half of a school year begging a […]
Non-profits quietly and thanklessly work to improve the lives of people and the world in which we live. Yet, most people don’t know that they exist. Non-profits need to dive head first into the social media pool. Use every possible opportunity to tell the world who your agency is, what you do and why you […]