Six swimming lessons later, Punky still sinks like a stone in the water. She knows all the motions that it takes to propel herself through the water. The problem is, the moment she senses her instructor or parent has let go, she panics and forgets everything. And while I’m trying my best to be patient […]
September 14, 2010
So. Let’s cut to the chase. The moment I’ve been dreading all these long years of my daughter’s early childhood has finally happened… Punky wasn’t invited to the birthday party of one of her friends. “It’s on Saturday!” her friend Julie told me when I had lunch with Punky at school a few days ago. […]
September 9, 2010
>This post originally appeared as a column in the Nashville Scene… I didn’t really turn out quite as my mother had planned. Her most heartfelt desire was for me to marry a doctor and settle into a comfortable life raising Ralph Lauren-clad children, playing tennis, volunteering with the Junior League and vacationing on Sea Island. […]
September 7, 2010
>I know many of you want an update on how Punky’s swimming lessons are going. If you didn’t read my post on her first lesson this season, basically the substitute instructor dropped her in the water without warning while she was swimming with support and she sank to the bottom of the pool. You can […]
September 4, 2010
I’m doing something sort of exciting next week. Well, okay. It’s really exciting- so exciting that despite the fact that I knew better, I totally bragged about it to a friend on Twitter in the process of telling her why I was going to be in New York City next week and therefore could not […]
September 1, 2010
> Always fashion-forward, Lauren Bosworth chose Emmy night to debut a hot new hairstyle called “The Rat’s Nest.” I thought Mae West was dead. I was wrong. And now we know who wants to play Mae in the Lifetime television movie. Was Lauren Graham on the Emmy red carpet last night, or the set of […]
August 30, 2010
Yesterday was Punky’s first swim lesson in about a year and she was very excited. She has always been timid in the water, and when we enrolled her in swimming lessons last summer, she clearly wasn’t ready to swim. She got to the point of being able to jump in the water and swim to […]
August 27, 2010
After years of prayer, fasting, soul searching and supplication on the part of my soccer-obsessed husband, the stars finally aligned. The unthinkable happened. God heard our fervent prayers and presented us with… A FERRIER BOY WHO WAS ON A REAL TEAM AND HAD A JERSEY WITH A NUMBER ON IT AND STUFF AND WAS ABOUT […]
August 26, 2010
>iVillage recently published a post called “15 Things Moms Secretly Want to Say to Stepmoms.” While the author made a show of being very gracious in her notes to stepmothers, I found it disturbing that she still managed to portray the typical stepmom as being a man-stealing hussy. Um, thanks. I’ve been a stepmother now […]
August 23, 2010
>Dear Mom-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named, I’ll be the first to admit that it’s heartening to see a woman who finds the time and energy to take care of her body, despite the demands of children, a husband, and a household. I really do admire the fact that while most of us are tearing off to work, late again […]
August 20, 2010
