Tweet Blissy. That’s an apt word for how I felt during my run on the Superior Hiking Trail last week. Maybe Glimmery. Possibly Elysian. Having my feet off asphalt, dodging rocks and roots, listening to the creek burbling nearby, I … Continue reading
Tweet“Free Launch” At some point in my twenties, my desire to have children became incontrovertible. Uh-HUH. I wanted kids. Fo’ sho’. This certainty necessitated a messy break-up with my 46-year-old vasectomized boyfriend of six years. I’m sorry, Jack. You had … Continue reading
Tweet A few weeks ago, I was driving a van load of kids towards sweet treats. In addition to massaging the New York Times crossword puzzle, pushing back my cuticles, and pouring Malbec down my gullet, this is what I … Continue reading
TweetOn the surface, Johann Sebastian Bach was just another poncy wig-wearing composer. But beneath the wig lurked something more menacing: the ability to derail promising futures. And perhaps lice. If he’d been born even a year sooner or later, I … Continue reading
Tweet Every time they want an increase in their allowance, the kids pull this kind of emotional blackmail. Niblet’s all, “But I’m scawwed at night and need someone to sleep wif me.” Damn that Zoey 101 episode the kids watched, … Continue reading
Tweet For me, the underlying question is this: Was it Bristol Palin’s massive Double Whammies that first attracted the Hockey Hunk who knocked her up? Or did her sideboard of melons develop later, as a result of said knock-upage? If … Continue reading
Tweet At the end of a summer vacation, these are knees I trust. They show evidence of tumbles from the monkey bars trips down the new brick path scrounging in the garden for ripe plum tomatoes falls off the scooter … Continue reading