>I’ve always had a soft spot for The Little Mermaid. It came out in theaters when I was a freshman in high school and more than one person said the mermaid, Ariel, bore an uncanny resemblance to me. When you’re a dreamy 14-year-old girl, that’s just the kind of thing you want to hear. I […]

> Herpes ads mystify me. Seriously. Who are these handsome young men and women so desperate for cash and exposure that they’ll appear on television and in magazines implying not only that they have herpes, but that they’re deliriously happy about it? “Peter, why did you bring me out to this wheatfield? You know I […]

>When my stepdaughter turned 13 a few weeks ago, we bought her an expensive flip phone, tricked out with a video recorder, a camera and 50 text messages a month. “50 text messages a month?” she whined after being told the good news. “Susan has up to 25-hundred text messages a month!” “Well you can […]

> Welcome to the May edition of the Perfect Post awards, a warm, fuzzy scheme dreamed up by MommaK and me that allows bloggers to recognize their favorite post of the preceding month. This month, my Perfect Post Award goes to…. Sugar Mommy for her post, Sometimes I Am Able to See the Big Picture. […]

>I had a CT scan yesterday. I went alone, sat in a waiting room with a half dozen other scared-looking adults, and finally was called back to The Room. You know what I’m talking about, right? The room you see in all the movies, where the person lies on a stretcher that slowly moves into […]

>”Heh-low. I am Eva. Coom follow me.” Nervously, I set aside the People Magazine I’d found on the coffee table and followed Eva down a dimly lit hall. “Go in there,” she instructed, pointing to a small room. “Get undress and lie face up on that bed. I be back in a few minute.” She […]

>-I love Boudreaux’s Butt Cream (it’s diaper ointment, people). I get great pleasure out of writing Butt Cream on my grocery list, then leaving the list in the cart in hopes that the next person will see it and have a little WTF moment thanks to me. -Speaking of butt cream, the other night while […]

> It’s another blog book tour, folks! Andi Buchanan was nice enough to invite me to review her newest anthology, It’s a Girl. The book features 32 essays on raising daughters, by such notable writers as Joyce Maynard, Jennifer Lauck and Gayle Brandeis, and it’s a terrific read. I devoured It’s a Girl, staying up […]

>For the last few weeks, I’ve been cursing the product review gods as some of my favorite bloggers were chosen to review a new KY lubricant, while my own mailbox remained spitefully KY-free.Was I not sexy enough for the advertisers out there? Were my bare floor posts no longer cutting the mustard in this blog-eat-blog […]

>”So, have you taken a look at your door sill lately?” my father-in-law asked yesterday morning with a devilish grin. “What?” I said, rounding the kitchen counter to take a look. The door sill is where Hubs and I, in timeless American tradition, keep tabs on the girls’ heights from holiday to holiday. Since we’ve […]