>Since we’ve been, erm, touching on the subject in posts like this one and this one, let’s go all the way. This post is devoted to sex, particularly sex after children. -Does it exist?-Does it have to go downhill?-What’s it like for you? After reading articles like this one and getting pitches about books like […]

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June 12, 2008

>Let’s Talk About Sex

>Found: One copy of Forever on my kitchen counter. Do I… a) Rip it into shreds and flush it down the toilet?b) Casually ask the girls how “Ralph” is doing?c) Hold a Just Us Girls Sex Discussion after dinner tonight? (Soooo not in the mood for that.)d) Admit that when I was their age, I, […]

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June 11, 2008

>OMGOMGOMGOMG

Dear Sorority Girls, Let me just take this opportunity to welcome you home for the summer. I know college has been tough, what with the Pimps and Prosititutes socials, the tanning bed sessions, and the binging and purging. I’m so glad you have a few months to kick back and relax. And I encourage you […]

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June 10, 2008

An Open Letter to Those Pesky Sorority Girls

>Several months ago, my oldest stepdaughter wrecked the car. She wasn’t hurt, but the incident was traumatic for several reasons, the chief being that on that one specific day, she not driving her car. She was driving our car. Adding insult to non-injury, she wrecked while driving in a parking deck with two of her […]

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June 9, 2008

>Wrecked

> Ladies and gentlemen, the teens have left the building. Consider this my vacation- Well, as much of a vacation as I’m going to get until hell freezes over and my mom agrees to watch the two little ones for a week. For nine straight days, the girls are visiting their mom and the hormone […]

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June 8, 2008

>Vacation

>The bad news is that this picture was taken 32 years ago today. 32 long-ass years. Ago. Today. And no, I no longer have the Slinky. Or the stuffed dog. The good news is that my son looks a little bit like me after all! Or at least, like I used to look. This is […]

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June 7, 2008

>It’s My Burf-Day

>HUBS (smiling mischievously, wrapping his arms around me): I think I can finally say I love you more than you love me. ME (smiling, hugging Hubs back): No….. (I pause.) Not finally. HUBS: Bitch.

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June 6, 2008

>It’s a Laugh a Minute Over Here

> I was seven months pregnant and I had to pee. It wasn’t an unusual situation at that stage in my life, but it meant a detour from the elevator lobby outside my obstetrician’s office and a mad, waddling dash for the public restrooms across the hall. It also meant attempting to edge around a […]

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June 6, 2008

>The Fragility of Life

> Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:20:06 -0400Subject: Lake BellFrom: Kelly DowdTo: Suburban.turmoil@yahoo.comHey there-Lake Bell shows DETAILS her most important assets in thenew June/July issue.Visit here to dive deeper with an exclusive gallery of sexyphotos that show why this leggy starlet is not just anotherpretty face, and also to read about her acrobatic sex scenes.Thanks […]

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June 5, 2008

>I Do What I’m Told

>I’m sitting in Starbucks (which pretty much marks the outer limits of my social parameters) watching three boys act like… boys. And they are so damn irritating. They’ve shown up here with an oversized Mylar balloon, several dozen “I’ve been Krogering” stickers and a Foursquare ball. Within minutes, one of them is bouncing the ball […]

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June 4, 2008

>What’s to Come