Call me crazy but if it’s late October with a daytime high of 50 degrees and you own a swim shop, wouldn’t you eagerly greet and cater to every customer who walked in your door? Well, not at my local swim shop. My son and I are coming from his weekly YMCA swim lesson where [...]
I don’t care much about my birthday anymore. Maybe because I’ve had so many of them they are no longer special. I remember my 16th was a big event. My father took me and about ten friends out to dinner at a family restaurant and paid for it without blinking an eye. Inside, though, he [...]
I Am Woman. Watch Me Shop. These are the words I repeat to myself every Monday morning after I drop my son off at preschool and head to the grocery store. I’m off to do what thousands–nay millions–of women do every day: procure food for the household. I should feel confident in this role; after [...]
I think I’m becoming obsessed with Angelina Jolie. First off, she snagged the man I was supposed to marry: Brad Pitt. I settled on Brad after John F. Kennedy, Jr., died in a tragic plane accident. My second choice was George Clooney but then he turned into a misogynist kid-hater. So that’s how I ended [...]
It’s that time of year again, when parents take their kids for haircuts and dress them in their finest. No, I don’t mean Christmas, I’m talking about School Pictures. Actually, my son isn’t even in real school yet. He still goes to preschool. So it was something of a shock to learn about school pictures [...]
My son had his 5-year-old wellness visit today (they aren’t called check-ups anymore!). A nurse called yesterday to confirm the appointment and inform me that I’d be charged a $40 fee if I did not show up. “And bring a first morning urine sample,” she added before hanging up. Huh? A first morning urine sample? [...]
My husband and I had been trying for a second pregnancy for over two years when I finally decided to go to the doctor. She ran a blood test and informed me that my sagging 41-year-old body is no longer ovulating. “What!” I exclaim. “I’m not ovulating AT ALL?” “Well, not this month,” she replied [...]
Today I played badminton with my son. I didn’t really want to, but his little face was so cute when he asked me that I just couldn’t say no. I put away my loppers and dragged my poke weed shrubs out of the flower bed I was working in. I took off my gloves and [...]
As a settled, confident, happy 41-year-old, I rarely cry. I get angry, I feel sad, I get depressed, I feel stressed and life gets me down, but I don’t often expel emotion by crying. That’s why I completely surprised myself by bursting into tears after dropping off my son at preschool on the day that [...]
What is up with these women who use their husbands’ email addresses? Like johndoe@verizon.net. How hard is it to get your own email address? Or, if your husband never uses the email, why not just get it in your name? I’m not quite sure why this bugs me so much. I mean really, what difference [...]
