Life Out Loud

The truth about boys and girls

Thursday, May 10, 2012 by Kymberly Foster Seabolt

Having a son I thought surely I had gotten my hands on the one man on Earth a woman could understand. I was wrong.   Gems My son is 14. He and his friends exist in a haze of hormones and Axe body spray (the scent that will take paint off the walls). They are [...]

Bullying, not a laughing matter

Thursday, May 3, 2012 by Kymberly Foster Seabolt

Kymberly Foster Seabolt is a laugher, but bullying is no joke.

Kymberly Foster Seabolt talks love and marriage

Thursday, April 26, 2012 by Kymberly Foster Seabolt

After 20 years of marriage, Kymberly Seabolt discusses what keeps her heart beating.

Paid in full. Maybe. (Doesn’t anyone want my money?)

Thursday, April 19, 2012 by Kymberly Foster Seabolt

I think I’ve figured out why the economy still needs a little work. No one wants to take our money anymore.

Five more minutes? Alarming idea (to the folks who bring you The Most Annoying Alarm Clock In The History Of the World)

Thursday, April 12, 2012 by Kymberly Foster Seabolt

It’s like this: I’m adrift in dreamland, when I’m rudely startled awake by the “Bleet-Bleet-Pounding-In-Your-Brain-Bleet-Bleet” of The Most Annoying Alarm Clock In The History Of the World (Patent Pending).

Face it, my stuff has no value

Thursday, April 5, 2012 by Kymberly Foster Seabolt

I know I will never discover that my $40 yard sale card table is worth $40,000 and it’s my own darned fault. I’m too cheap to have ever paid $40 for a used card table in the first place.

Surely I’m not the only one who’s been tripped up by that time change thing

Thursday, March 29, 2012 by Kymberly Foster Seabolt

Last month when we were all still enjoying it getting cozy and dark shortly after lunch, I hopped in Mr. Wonderful’s truck, a vehicle I don’t normally drive, to take our daughter and her friend swimming at the local inn. It was the kind of “Mom’s Taxi” weekend I’ve come to know and love. The [...]

Surviving progress: Let there be light

Thursday, March 22, 2012 by Kymberly Foster Seabolt

Remember when you didn’t need an advanced degree to buy a light bulb? All you really needed was to know your wattage and you were, quite literally, golden. Now, there is such a vast array of lighting choices (or lack of choice where LED and CFL bulbs have been declared mandatory) that it’s difficult to [...]

Skinned knees and taffeta

Thursday, March 15, 2012 by Kymberly Foster Seabolt

The phrase “7th-grade formal dance” makes about as much sense to me as saying “toddler driving lessons.” That aside, it seems to be the norm these days and who am I but a lemming like follower of the masses? I have no need to ostracize my daughter from her peers in such a basic way [...]

Things we learned from Columbine

Thursday, March 8, 2012 by Kymberly Foster Seabolt

In every photo they are touching their children. An arm through an elbow, a hand on the back. All were touching their kids. Teenagers, all well past the “holding hands to cross the street phase,” were locked hand in hand, arm and arm with their parents, and in some cases grandparents, as they streamed away [...]