This is a repost. Which I don’t think I’ve ever done before. I originally posted this in 2008. I’m reposting it because today is my mom’s birthday and I know there is some small part of her brain that wonders if he’ll call her. Or if he sent a card. My sister and I have lost [...]

This is a post the Kevin from Always Home and Uncool put up last week. He and his wife had worked tirelessly to raise money and awareness for their daughter’s illness. They’re in the running for a grant from Pepsi to fund research for the autoimmune disease. When you read the post below you will [...]

I know that Scott thought “A kegger for Carolyn” was just too delicious an alliteration to avoid. But a girl/woman going from 40 to 41 has no business diving head first into a keg of beer.

Ouch.

Some of the things Scott will never do again:

1.) Issue the challenge that he thinks we can’t finish the keg.

2.) Buy a [...]

Your house smells really funky.

I love your writing. It makes me want to stop.

You send out way too many pictures of your kids. (No J, not you.)

I thought you would be excited to meet his friends. But no, you weren’t. I haven’t witnessed that level of über-bitchy since the eleventh grade.

You impressed me when you [...]

This is what happens when I leave town and let my kids send me text messages so that they can “stay in touch with mommy.”

Mom- I slapped tempel in the face and i’m really mad at myself but my privilege was going to be not to sleep in your room. But I was really scared [...]

I’ve just gotten home from the Blogher 2010 Conference in New York. I. Am. Tired. 

It was the usual mixed bag of fantastic and loud and whatarewedoingnow and meet you in the bar and why can’t I find her anywhere and dammit where is the elevator?!

This is the [...]

Summer is kicking my ass. My kids are always. here.  Right.  Here.  With me.  Always.

I have all the time in the world to get on the computer. Write funny posts. Work on that goddamnnovelthatwillneverseethelightofday. Catch up on the other blogs. Get really good at that accounting job I’m doing for Scott. [...]

ME:  Listen, we’ve been through a lot and I totally understood when you lost your roller ball but this is ridiculous.

BLACKBERRY: WhtsYourProblemHumn?

ME:  My problem is that you have some kind of palsy on the entire left side of your keyboard and I can’t type anything anymore. And I can’t roll to the right so I can’t ever get. [...]

First of all, the stupid running thing. I went by myself yesterday so I had the iPod going. And our iPod is very deep with the Ben Folds catalog. Scott’s love for Ben Folds falls somewhere between a fan and a stalker. So you stand a pretty good chance of hearing some Ben when you’re [...]

Parker had a friend over the other day and they wrote a One Act Play. It’s so simple and brilliant that I (uncharacteristically) have nothing else to add.