>This post originally appeared on the Nashville Scene blog. Yeah, yeah, the Music City Star’s debut marks the dawn of a new era in commuter travel. More significant, though, is the access it gives the residents of Martha, Tennessee to downtown Nashville. Life as we know it never will be the same. Until today, you […]

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September 19, 2006

>Marthan Invasion

>I waited until Baby was distracted by Boohbah before quietly going in the bathroom and shutting the door. Finally. A moment alone, at a time when I really needed a moment alone. I had been waiting to go to the bathroom for 30 minutes. Ten seconds later, there was a knock on the door. “Iss […]

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September 19, 2006

>Synonym for Constipation: Toddler

>One of the things I do when pregnant is eat spinach. Lots and lots of fresh spinach (You know where this is going, don’t you?). Bagged, possibly-e. coli-carrying shit spinach. Dammit! On Friday, I listened to the news about bagged spinach with a growing fear in the pit of my stomach. I had eaten bagged […]

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September 18, 2006

>Spinach Scare

>[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S8cNrIR5ac&w=425&h=350] The pageant moms ain’t got nothin’ on Louella Gallagher…

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September 16, 2006

>On the Subject of Bad Mothers…

>So yesterday, I wrote about the funny side of my baby pageant experience. But to be honest, it was hard to laugh about. One woman I spoke to for a few minutes at the beginning of the pageant had a just-turned-two-year-old girl with her. Like the other contestants, Katelynn wore a wigful of curls, false […]

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September 14, 2006

>The Problem with Pageants

>At last. The long awaited (by me, anyway) baby pageant column is online at the Nashville Scene. I’ll write more on this subject tomorrow. I didn’t have room in the column for all the sordid tales from the event, and much of it wasn’t so much funny as it was sickening. You should know, too, […]

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September 13, 2006

>Barbie Girls

>I’m basically a failure at Parents’ Night. I don’t know why I get on my stepdaughters to pay attention in class when I can’t listen to a single one of their teachers drone on for even ten minutes. Instead, I sit in my desk doodling on the syllabus or better yet, staring at the other […]

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September 12, 2006

>I Eat Boredom for Breakfast

>[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7svMGD7aws&w=425&h=350] Who knew finding a husband could be so easy?

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September 11, 2006

>’Til Bad Breath Do Us Part

>Tracey linked to this video today and so will I. It says more than I ever could about 9/11 and the emotions that day continues to stir up in all of us.

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September 11, 2006

>September 11th.

>”We had to just leave that party. Because who wants to eat dinner when you have someone’s upchuck all over you?” -My mom

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September 10, 2006

>Overheard Just Now