>I remember it like it was yesterday. Wait a second. It was yesterday. Hubs and I were driving back from our oh-so-romantic annual honeymoon trip after collecting the baby from my parents’ house. Every hour or so, Hubs would ask me to fish a gooey pastry or cookie out of a dessert box he’d picked […]

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June 15, 2006

>Tradition

>Here you are, kids- the very latest installment of Suburban Turmoil, Nashville Scene-style… Stall Talk I don’t like making stall talk. Let me explain. You and a friend go to a public rest room together. You’re in the middle of a conversation and you enter adjoining stalls. That’s when it gets kind of iffy. Do […]

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June 14, 2006

>Check It Out

>Some of you have e-mailed to ask how my parents took the news of my blog. Well, they uh, actually, they didn’t. Oh, they know about the newspaper column. We brought them two copies last week when we dropped the baby off. Both of them eagerly grabbed one and ran to different corners of the […]

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June 14, 2006

>Take It From Me, Parents Just Don’t Understand

>So there I was Thursday, standing on a street corner in Highlands, North Carolina, waiting for Hubs to find the car and pick me up after an afternoon of leisurely window shopping. As I scanned the streets for any sign of him, my eyes locked into the laser beam gaze of a woman pushing a […]

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June 12, 2006

>Shitty Friend Syndrome: The Epilogue

>Perhaps some of you are wondering where I’ve been. Er, where I am. Well, on Wednesday, Hubs and I left town for our annual honeymoon trip. We started out in Cashiers, North Carolina, worked our way through the small towns of Silva and Dillsboro and ended up here, in Asheville, where I’m typing to you […]

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June 11, 2006

>Where I’m At

>This post originally appeared on the Nashville Scene blog. When you showed up at my car window on Highway 70 and asked me for a dollar the other day, I wanted to oblige. Because who could resist your computer-printed Needy Mom Needs Help sign? But when you stopped to answer your flip phone, I hesitated. […]

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June 9, 2006

>Dear Needy Mom…

>The other day, I was cleaning up around our desktop computer when I found strange words scrawled on a scrap of paper. Take me down to the prairie dog city where the grass is green and the girls are pretty.”Written in the hand of my 15-year-old iPod addict stepdaughter, I knew it had to be […]

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June 9, 2006

>Because Apparently, Prairie Dogs Use ChemLawn and Attract Beautiful Women.

When I was little, my mother kept my older brother and me in line using a method that I’m pretty sure will never be found in any child care manual. “If y’all don’t quit your nyaah nyaahing,” she’d threaten, “I’m sending you to The Farm, where little children have to work for a living!” At […]

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June 8, 2006

A God Free Funny Farm

>Here it is… My first column for the Nashville Scene, reprinted for you in all its glory. My Not-So-Hip ZIP WANTED: Suburban gal pal for stay-at-home-mom adrift in Bellevue and fearing for her sanity. Applicants must love David Sedaris, The Pixies and Charlie Kaufman movies. Persons with Lisa Rinna haircuts or tracksuits with pants that […]

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June 7, 2006

>Suburban Turmoil: THE COLUMN

>Becoming a stay-at-home mom was like being in one of those science fiction movies where you look down at your hand and realize you’re slowly disappearing. I had spent most of my adult years appearing on local television, first as a morning anchor in South Carolina and then as a reporter in Nashville. I was […]

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June 7, 2006

>A Startling Revelation