As some of you know, Cinderella is a neighbor of mine. (Not the princess, the heavy metal band). The bassist lives two doors down from one of my stepdaughter’s friends in the most subdivision-y subdivision you could possibly imagine. All I have to say about that is, Rawk! Subdivisions are HOT, or why else would […]

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July 26, 2006

A Cinderella Story

> Many have tried, but few can match the weirdness of those who have found my blog via Google. Thus, I bring to you once again… Lucinda’s Advice Column Bad Googlers. Good advice. Da fly potty train- Livingston, NJ Well, this is clearly why potty training wasn’t working at my house. I didn’t know about […]

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July 26, 2006

>Lucinda’s Advice Column

>If watching me is any indication, Baby is gonna be one fucked-up housekeeper. Don’t get me wrong, I love a clean house. But I have almost no tolerance for the filth that must be removed in order to have that clean house. Don’t believe me? Join me, why don’t you, for the quarterly Cleaning Out […]

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July 24, 2006

>The Best Thing About Vacation is That There is No Housework

>I’d like to apologize to the man and his wife who sat across the aisle from me yesterday on the flight from Nashville to LA. I was wearing my lowest low riders to accomodate the little-bit-o-belly that annoyingly appears the very moment one is pregnant the second time around. And while I was careful to […]

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July 23, 2006

>Your Correspondent is On Assignment. Sort of.

So Baby and I were at the Dollar Tree a few days ago (the real social center for moms in my part of town. Because damn! Everything’s a dollar!) when I saw the pregnancy tests advocated by Jamie (who swears that they really do work). Since my period was a few days late (Okay, ten […]

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July 21, 2006

Big News. Seriously.

>Busy Mom’s mother passed away early this morning. I am so sad for her. Busy Mom is an amazing woman with a kind, upbeat spirit. She makes it all seem so easy, although with all she’s got on her plate, I’m sure it’s the exact opposite. Please keep her in your thoughts and prayers in […]

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July 20, 2006

>A Sad Announcement

>Do you have a king and queen in your neighborhood? A couple that tries to rule over everything, whether it’s the homeowners’ association meetings, the annual block party, or the brush pile in your back yard? I wrote about these middle class monarchs in this week’s Nashville Scene. It turns out I know a dirty […]

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July 20, 2006

>The Middle Class Monarchy

>I am so sick of reading about the Mommy Wars, sick to the point where I stop reading the moment I see the phrase. Is anyone with me? The problem I have with the Mommy Wars is that they are not about most of us. The Mommy Wars are about socially connected, wealthy, media-grubbing women […]

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July 18, 2006

>Not My Mommy Wars

>A few months ago (as some of you remember), my 13-year-old stepdaughter started making noises about getting a dwarf hamster. The kind of cute and cuddly rodent that’s known for biting people. And running on its little wheel all night long. And escaping. And crawling into vents and then, selfishly, dying. I quietly FREAKED OUT […]

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July 16, 2006

>Dwarf Hamster Gnaws Family Apart!

>This column originally appeared on the Nashville Scene blog. As you’ve no doubt noticed, the current conflict in the Middle East is having an impact on gas prices around town. My husband just got back from the Highway 100 Kroger station after waiting in a line full of customers trying to buy gas before prices […]

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July 15, 2006

>Violence, Shmiolence. Give Him His Gas