No, Thanks, Not This Year

No, Thanks, Not This Year

I love all of us. You, you, that weird dude over there. We are good people. With the exception of some very not good people in the world, we’re alright. But we are also all stupid. We do things that make our lives harder than they need to be. I blame Pinterest...
Put on Your Patience Pants

Put on Your Patience Pants

I think I’m a patient person. Hold on. My husband, Mark, just read that sentence and he can’t stop laughing. It’s distracting me, and I can’t write. Okay, that’s enough laughing, Mark. Stop it. Really. Stop, NOW. As I was saying,...
Spring Break 1994

Spring Break 1994

  My college girlfriends and I recently went on an early Spring Break trip to New York City. We took a cupcake tour with a guide who was 23, if that. Along the way we realized that, in our tour guide’s eyes, we probably looked like old ladies. Twenty years...
Not a Recap, No Resolutions

Not a Recap, No Resolutions

Happy New Year! I know it was 6 days ago, but I’m only now ready to kick off the vacation blanket I’ve been under since December 20. It’s not a literal blanket, except for some of every day when it is absolutely a literal blanket and a cup of coffee...
Santa, Schmanta: Toy Shopping Made Easy

Santa, Schmanta: Toy Shopping Made Easy

Today we are not discussing a couple things. We’re not discussing how many days you have left to finish Christmas shopping. If we were discussing it, I’d tell you that there are 18 days, 19 if you’re completely insane and Amazon gets that drone...
Why Can’t I Be Cool?

Why Can’t I Be Cool?

‘Twas the night post Thanksgiving, And all through the house Were boxes of Christmas crap, The mess made me grouse. Ha. You thought I was doing an entire post in verse, didn’t you (unless, of course, you have the power of scanning ahead to see that in a...