In the Back of Her Closet
I’m convinced that my mother has a secret compartment in the back of her closet that opens to a room filled with filing cabinets. There, men in visors type feverishly on old fashioned typewriters until my mother appears at the back of her closet to make a request for, say, a brochure from her 2006 trip [...]
It's Its! Isn't it?
While America is busy running around today, buying turkeys and flying to relatives’ homes, I thought I’d make today’s blog brief. I wasn’t sure what to say until I was stuck in traffic behind this ambulance today: Essentially, it says, “EMS at it is best.” which makes no sense. Now, before you go calling me [...]
The Sixth Stage of Grief: Shallowness
When the producer got up out of her chair and walked over to brush my hair away from my eyes, I had to stiffle giggles. I was thrilled not just because CBS was in my living room filming me for a segment on families and the recession, but because my hair had gotten so long, [...]
Attention Bloggers: Give One Away, Give One to Charity
agreed to give away one of them on my blog, but when I asked for a second one to donate to the pediatric oncology ward at a local hospital, I was told that there were limited supplies of the freebie holiday trucks
A Dad's Guide to His Daughter's Emoticons ;-)
Someone close to me found out that his teenage daughter was in a relationship from Facebook. It came to him on his Blackberry one morning before he’d had enough coffee to handle it. (Or perhaps wine was more in order.) Welcome to 21st century parenting. I was quick to help him out (i.e. needle him) [...]
The Night We Kissed Cancer Goodbye
I’d just sat down for my pedicure when I realized what was on TV in the nail salon: The Young and the Restless had a cancer storyline. Of course.
My Last Pair of Clean Underpants
I am wearing my last pair of clean underpants. It’s been that kind of week, and yet, it’s only Wednesday. I feel like I was shot out of a cannon starting at the 5th grade Halloween party and I’m still airborne. I won’t land until after my Kiss Cancer Goodbye fundraiser on Friday night. In [...]
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