Carpool is life in the slowest lane
If you can read this, I have survived to write it and (blessedly) not been killed in a tragic multi-car pileup in the carpool lane.
Catching a guy is a hole lot of work, dig?
I have come to the conclusion that all the single women I know are spending far too much time worrying about how to meet men.
Out of the mouths of moms
As I reach the milestone of my 10th official Mother's Day, I find that I appreciate my own mother so much more.
Revolt of the anti-snack parent
There's no way of saying this without sounding like either a self-righteous health nut or a sadistic child hater - and I'm still somewhat on the fence over which is worse.
Pottery Barn addict is in a real fix
Every junkie has her jones. A smoker likes her cigarettes. A tippler likes her wine. Any addict needs her fix.
Wrinkles: Shedding light on woes
I didn't set out to become high-maintenance, really I didn't. I was tripping along, clam-happy, unmanicured, and completely wash-and-go through my 20s with nary a problem.
Teen driver’s age doesn’t match heart’s calendar
The nice thing about getting married is that you inherit a whole new set of people to fret about. My niece, for example, is aflutter about learning to drive.
Baby’s first fashion sense stays in style
I remember when I first made the clear connection between what I wore and how I felt. It was the dawn of middle school, which in our district was seventh grade.
Spouses don’t always get along so swimmingly
I have long enjoyed reading the anniversary notices in the county paper. It is these little nuggets of society news that tell us that Lula and Orville have enjoyed 75 years of wedded bliss (having wed, apparently, at or around age nine).
A clean sweep of mother-son relations
Can this relationship be saved? When it comes to cleaning, my 9-year-old son thinks a horizontal surface is a space onto which he can drop trading cards, old homework, various action figures, and tiny plastic parts barely visible to the naked eye belonging to erector sets he does not even remember owning.
