>Well, another week has come to a close and since I don’t have to link to my Parents.com blog anymore, I’m going to take the weekends to share with you all the great things I’ve read and seen during the week. I’m excited about the opportunity to do this, since I’ve been getting tons of […]
September 12, 2009
>My questions for you today: Who’s on your Do Not Acknowledge list? More importantly, whose list are you on? Do you have any idea of what I’m talking about? You will after you read this week’s newspaper edition of Suburban Turmoil. I’m actually on a woman’s list who goes to such great trouble not to […]
September 10, 2009
>“Look, Punky, you got a letter!” I said, holding out a brightly decorated envelope. “A letter?!” Punky shouted. “Who’s it from?” It’s from your sister at college,” I said. “Do you want me to read it to you?” Punky nodded and we sat down together at the kitchen table. “Dear Punky,” I read. “How are […]
September 8, 2009
>When my husband and I moved into our home seven years ago, our first major skirmish was over small appliances. Hubs, it seems, had always used one of these… While I had been raised using one of these…The battle lines were drawn. “It’s obvious that we should trash your cheap toaster and keep my toaster […]
September 7, 2009
In this week’s Suburban Turmoil newspaper column, I compare you guys to ZOMBIES. Oh yes I do. The full text of the column is below… One thing I’ve learned from living in suburban Nashville is that my neighborhood has major horror movie potential. Oh, I know horror-in-the-suburbs has been done already with The Stepford Wives, […]
September 3, 2009
>I spent about an hour yesterday cleaning up our playroom. I hadn’t cleaned it in about a week and in that time, it seemed like Bruiser had managed to get every single toy out and spread the whole mess across the floor. I’m one of those moms who can’t stand to lose a single piece […]
August 29, 2009
>Here’s the deal. I have spent the last five years raising Punky to feel special. Unique. Treasured. And I don’t mean at all that I’m spoiling her rotten. Any time she has started acted bratty, I’ve made absolutely sure she understands that that kind of behavior won’t be tolerated. I look at my daughter right […]
August 28, 2009
>Most of us have had a crappy job at one time or another. Maybe you worked for one record-heat summer as a fur-costumed mascot at an amusement park… or perhaps you were an office assistant to a Devil who wore Prada. I write about my own worst-job-ever experience in this week’s newspaper edition of Suburban […]
August 27, 2009
>So. I was sitting in car rider pick-up hell* last week when I noticed two middle aged women in karate uniforms going car to car, handing out fliers. My mouth dropped open as I watched them move down the line. What the heck? I thought to myself. Does my daughter’s school seriously allow people to […]
August 26, 2009
>I’ll be the first to admit that I never liked the Doodlebops.Watching them, I felt as though someone had tunneled into my brain and used the information found there to create characters specifically designed to make me crazy. Rooney Doodle’s hair reminded me of something creepy you’d see in a pet store aquarium, and that […]
August 25, 2009
