>This post originally appeared on the Nashville Scene blog. Outside Mafiaoza’s the other night, a young hotshot paced up and down the sidewalk, chopping the air with his hands. “You think anyone’s gonna fall for that?” he asked a bewildered diner through the plate glass window. “Nonsense.” He turned angrily to a Land Rover parked […]

>The first time I was pregnant, I heard a lot of complaints from other knocked-up women about the number of strangers who would randomly rub their bellies at the post office or the supermarket. I listened to these accounts with a mixture of horror and fascination. Who would do such a thing? And why? And […]

>Do a Google search for Suburban mom naked and guess, just guess who’s NUMBER ONE, BABY?*With thanks to the Purdue University student who discovered this for me.

>There are lots of ways to get more readers for your blog. This e-mail I received today should NOT be one of them. I took out a few extraneous paragraphs, as well as the link. It’s really the next-to-last paragraph that gets me. You’ll talk smack about me if I don’t visit your blog??? That […]

>This column originally appeared in the Nashville Scene. Although I’m a bit of a snoop when it comes to my husband, I’ve yet to find any clues that he’s up to no good. The deepest recesses of his closet hold only lint balls. The messages on his cell phone are mundane. The credit card statement […]

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> It’s time again for the Perfect Post Awards. MommaK and I came up with the idea as a way for all of us to reward posts that we think deserve a wider audience. This month, I am awarding the notorious Underpaid Kept Woman for her post, appropriately titled Crazy Assed Naked. Because sometimes we […]

After I married my husband, I visited my in-laws in LA for the first time and thought it was the coolest place on earth. We’d head over to Beverly Hills or West Hollywood to shop and take in all the latest trends. I’d splurge on an overpriced skirt or a hip pair of sunglasses, eager […]

From the libraries to the cafetoriums, local puppeteers are working to make Nashville the next Puppet Capital of the World. It is even whispered in certain circles that by the time we enter the next decade, our town will be known not for Toby Keith and Dolly Parton, but instead, for its puppets. Far and […]

>I was talking with a friend not too long ago about her three sons. “Well, they’re all doing great,” she said, “except our middle one seems to be leaning in the direction of Broadway show tunes and Golden Girls re-runs, so we’ll see how that goes.” I don’t have sons, so I didn’t have any […]