If you’ve been paying attention at all, you’ve probably noticed we’re not much for helicopter parenting. For a little refresher, here’s a quick story about bags of teeth, and another about how we rate kid activities on the amount of time they require our backsides be removed from the sofa. I rather think this has […]
A hyggelig holiday
If you’re like me, you look at the word “hygge” and think it’s a remix of something Will Smith wrote when he was still Fresh Prince-ish kind of cool and then you have an ear worm that is really not my fault because you should get your head out of the 90s. If that sounds […]
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Can Cyndi Lauper be my spirit animal?
I had a boss once whose most embarrassing moment happened while she was standing in the security line at the airport after she handed her ID and boarding pass to the security guard. It was worse, she said, than what happened to the woman ahead of her who’d packed a bunch of sex toys into […]
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We’re Mostly Perfect For Each Other
This week we celebrate the silver anniversary of an event that almost didn’t happen because I’m a flake, and back then I was worse. The summer I graduated from college, Mike drove me home and we started talking about our shared, bucolic vision of owning horses and rearing children who would wear gingham and have […]
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The most likely reason I haven’t answered your email
Last week I received an invitation from Ashley in Alabama. It was less of an invitation, really, than a summons. Ashley’s PR firm is starting a blog targeting women “of a certain age,” featuring content that will focus on what they’ve decided are some of our favorite F-words: family, friendship, faith, fashion, friendship, fitness, finances […]
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The Ten Emotional Phases of a CSA Subscriber
It’s that time of year when our grass has turned brown and crinkly and I’m giving serious thought to xeriscaping, or maybe installing a Brady-family era AstroTurf lawn. August is also known in the life of a CSA subscriber as “isn’t it about time we get some freaking tomatoes?” About six years ago, I read […]
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I’m not a wreck, YOU’RE a wreck
Earlier this week, I was lying in bed, at o’dark something-or-other, trying to clear my head. “You’re awake aren’t you?” Mike said. Yup. We haven’t been getting a lot of sleep around here. We went out to the living room and Jack was there, on the couch with a quilt, scrolling through his phone. He’d […]
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Everyone, just chill about Pokémon Go
If you’ve been paying attention the last three and a half weeks, you’ve probably heard a cacophony of opinions about Pokémon Go. Well actually, you’ve probably mostly heard people griping about how stupid it is that someone put a snipe hunt into a phone app and suddenly everyone’s flocking to city parks like Columbus just discovered a “New World.” […]
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The saga of the family photo
Once, when we were still a family of three, Mike and I won a photo session at a charity auction. The photographer was newly in business and would process the photos for almost nothing for her portfolio. This was good, because we’d bid on the session without thinking there’d be money to pay for the […]
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Blood drives and bucket lists
About a month ago, Jack saw a blood drive van and told me he wanted to donate – had been wanting too for a while, in fact – and now that he was seventeen he could do so without parental permission, which makes two whole things I didn’t know. What he actually said was it […]
