>Bruiser is only nine weeks old and already I have a thousand questions about him: Will his eyes stay blue?Will his hair keep getting curlier?Will he play football?Will he be a dungeonmaster?Will he love to read?Will he be a wild child?Will he get along with his sister?Will he be gay? Yes, the gay question is […]
May 17, 2007
>When I was little, my friends and I all had boxes of dress-up clothes- fancy ladies’ nightgowns and fussy old lady hats, crowns from Burger King and yards of tulle from the fabric store that allowed us to transform ourselves into brides or fairies. Every rejected item from our moms’ closets was at our disposal […]
May 3, 2007
>Last night, Hubs was at the grocery when a man came up and put his hand on Hubs’ shoulder. “Still suffering from depression?” he asked. Hubs snorted. “Did you really believe a word of that?” he replied. The man laughed. The man was talking about the Suburban Turmoil column I wrote for this week’s Nashville […]
April 21, 2007
>Pretend if you will that a new mommy dress code has put into effect, requiring all of us to tuck in our shirts. Can you imagine the stress? The suffering? I mean, remember the 80s, when most of us were forced to suck in our tucked-in, Generra-covered preteen guts every time Andy Knowlton looked our […]
April 5, 2007
>Once again, I missed the boat. Punky’s about to turn three and while all her friends are smugly signed up for preschool this fall, I naively thought I had all the time in the world to decide when, where and if she’d be attending… and now, unless I’m willing to send her to Mrs. Fanny […]
March 22, 2007
>The Eggplant Parmesan has been digested and so far, no labor, although technically I’m supposed to give it 48 hours to take effect. I realize that eating eggplant to stimulate labor is a stretch, particularly when I haven’t even reached my due date, but humor me, people. This baby is kicking the stew out of […]
March 9, 2007
