My husband and I have always wanted to be the owners of That House. Not That House with the reclaimed wood floors and and tastefully spare decor. Or That House with the peeling paint and unmown lawn. And certainly not That House with the police car lights flashing outside several times a year. No, we […]
January 3, 2014
This morning, I came across a blog post that’s being shared by a number of my Facebook friends. It’s called This is 39, and in it, Allison Slater Tate paints a wistful and… well… sort of depressing picture of what it’s like to be a woman on the cusp of 40. She references things like […]
January 2, 2014
One of my favorite things to do at the end of each year is to go back through my Twitter, Facebook and Instagram updates and merge the best of them into one big blog post. On their own, these snippets aren’t much– but together, they offer up an amazing (to me, anyway) look back at […]
December 27, 2013
Last night, we made our annual pilgrimage to worship at the altar of Shopping Mall Santa (sorry, clearly there’s a little too much Jesse Tree going on up in here), and let’s just say that IT DID NOT GO WELL. I’m still mad, to tell you the truth, and friends, those are three little words […]
December 20, 2013
Ever since waaaaay back in 2006, I’ve been writing an annual ‘Bad Santa’ post for this blog. This year, I decided to put together a compilation of the very best Bad Santas in Suburban Turmoil history– along with plenty of brand new Bad Santas to keep my longtime readers (all six of you) entertained as […]
December 18, 2013
Because a Christmas without Restoration Hardware is no Christmas at all. “Grand Pa Pa used to tell us he’d accidentally shot Rudolph,” Annelise told her children as she reverently placed the Christmas antlers on the front table. She turned to them, smiling through tears of nostalgia, and was pleased to see that the children […]
December 12, 2013
My husband and I have been married nearly 12 years, and in that time, we’re fortunate to have grown so close that almost nothing can come between us. Notice I said ‘almost.’ One minor disagreement has managed to put a certain amount of strain on our relationship. It involves a particular hat that my husband […]
December 11, 2013
In honor of Black Friday, here’s one of my all-time favorite posts. It originally appeared as a column in the Nashville Scene. While most of you were sleeping off a turkey overdose at four a.m. this morning, I was answering my front door. “We’ve been driving around for an hour,” my father announced loudly as […]
November 29, 2013
Forget Martha Stewart and the Food Network. My daughter developed this recipe when she was six and it has since become a time-honored tradition in our family. YOU WILL NEED: -a bra turkey -a knife -Chocolate pudding -Pepperoni -Cranberries -a bowl that has been sprayed -Honey mustard (optional) -Ketchup (optional) -food to go around the […]
November 27, 2013
