Keep Your Rodents. No Cages Here.
I remember feeling something crawling across my bed in the middle of the night. Something small. Something furry. I jumped out of my bed and flipped on the lights to find Salt on my blanket. Pepper, I soon found out, was in the closet with the kids. I didn’t bother to wake up my parents.
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.
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