> It’s the day you might or might not have been waiting for: Perfect Post Awards Day! Awe-Some! This is the day when Kimberly and I link to a whole bunch of great posts from the preceding month, chosen by bloggers, for bloggers. In November, I confess I was remiss in my blog reading. And […]
December 3, 2007
> Now that I’m raising two teens, I’m beginning to believe in karma. Because pretty much everything bad I ever did to my own parents as a teenager is returning to bite me in the butt. The sullenness, the sassiness, the moodiness, the backtalk… I did it all and then some back in my day- […]
December 2, 2007
> It certainly wasn’t the kind of thing that normally appears in my inbox. “Lindsay,” the e-mail read, “I read your newspaper column and blog and I’d like to talk to you about the possibility of appearing on The Tyra Banks Show.” Yeah. For real. Ty Ra Banks, bitches. The e-mail went on to tell […]
December 1, 2007
>A few nights ago, Hubs and I took the older girls to see the stage show version of Irving Berlin’s White Christmas. It was opening night and the place was packed, so while we waited to pick up our tickets, I didn’t think much of it when I was bumped by someone from behind. But […]
November 30, 2007
I experienced my first (and hopefully last) Black Friday last week. I was shocked at the number of people driving around at 4am on the Friday after Thanksgiving. I also was shocked that I didn’t enter stores and find deals everywhere, waiting to be plucked up. The smart shoppers, I noticed too late, had done […]
November 29, 2007
> “So I’m thinking of dyeing my hair again,” my 14-year-old stepdaughter told me the other day. “Didn’t you just dye it two days ago?” I asked. “Yeah, but I think it’s a lot redder on top than it is at the ends,” she explained. “I didn’t actually read the instructions first, so I um, […]
November 27, 2007
> Every morning at around 6am, I’m awakened by an airhorn. It’s the last thing anyone would want to lull them out of dreamland, but there’s not a whole lot I can do about it, because that airhorn? It’s my son. Eight-month-old Bruiser is the loudest child I have ever heard in my life. One […]
November 27, 2007
>In the latest Nashville Scene edition of Suburban Turmoil, I give thee the final word on George, and preschool soccer. Warning: It’s not pretty. Here’s the full text of the column… How Soccer Parents Get Their Kicks “I’m sick of watching this!” a man is yelling from the sidelines at my husband, who’s coaching a […]
November 26, 2007
> For the first time ever, I participated this year in Black Friday, that fateful day-after-Thanksgiving in which thousands of people line up at ungodly hours of the morning for big time bargains. Apparently, I was part of a record number of people participating in the sales event of the year. The rationale is that […]
November 25, 2007
