Guest poster number 4 is here to amuse you today. This is Jen W from Serenity Now! I have a mad crush on her little boy Jack and her daughter Megan cracks me up. Jen W is one of the people I’ve met in blog land that I have virtual coffee with during my virtual [...]

Ahhh my third guest post. If any of you have ever spent any time in my comment’s section then you know DCD. DCD is my friend Dana. She has been my biggest supporter here in Carolyn Online land. I keep telling Dana to start a blog, I know she wants to. And I think if [...]

This is my first real guest post. Not that Black Hockey Jesus isn’t real, he is. He just wasn’t really here. But Ms. Picket from Post Picket Fence is! Here’s the funny thing about Ms. Picket – she’s my friend and my confidant and my co-worker. And I’ve never met her. I know her but [...]

So I’m not here, right? I’m out of town. And I mentioned that a few peeps would be stopping by to babysit the blog. One who is not here babysitting is Black Hockey Jesus. Do you know BHJ? He decided a few months ago to initiate a shock and awe campaign on the mommy-blogosphere. He’s [...]

My mother and my sister are those pre-pack list people. They plan for weeks. They make things-to-be-packed piles. They cross check their lists. They call each other and bitch about their slacker daughter/sister. That would be me. But whatever, I’m the anti-Virgo. I was born under the wrong sign. I just can’t plan that far [...]

One of the reasons I can never leave Scott is that he knows all of my stories. And our shorthand language is just too far gone. No one else would ever know what the hell we were saying. “Oh my God this is just like that time in Boston. You need to flip a bitch.” [...]

When my sister was 14 and I was 12 she came home from school with a story of something so grotesque that my mother and I became vegetarians for the better part of a year. It took me almost two years before I could comfortably eat chicken again. I can’t remember the story – thank [...]

Did I say Blue Monday? I meant Black Monday. Yes, Monday was black.

Right now I’m working on a project for a deceased pet care facility. I mean why. There are not one but two cremation furnaces so this must be a pretty high volume endeavor. Which is fine. I can see the value in handling [...]

In addition to being a glass blower and penguin trainer when Tempel grows up, I think she should consider writing for Hallmark Cards. She could have her own niche series of cards dedicated to little sisters everywhere in honor of her own little sister. The kid’s got a talent for sentiment. This is what she [...]

I just wrote that I was not a mommy blogger in LilSass’s comment section and here I go blowing it. But my kids just got finished with a week of art camp and I simply must come on the internet and declare that my kids are better artists than your kids.

Well, in this first piece [...]