I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: teens are God’s way of helping mothers let them go. It’s not that they are bad, it’s just that they aren’t likeable. (more…)
December 3, 2009
October 28, 2009
Strange and Unusual: Cat Fight!
It wasn’t one of those things on my bucket list, but today I got in a cat fight with a complete stranger.
It wasn’t one of those things on my bucket list, but today I got in a cat fight with a complete stranger.
October 26, 2009
Decrepit Appliances
The 1st in a series
Last night I dreamed that I found an extra room in my house. I immediately began planning how to use this bonus room and how to decorate it. Then, I opened the closet and, low and behold, a brand new refrigerator. Beautiful, tall, massive drawer space, and unstained doors. This was too good to be true.
I opened the gleaming doors — every shelf was filled to busting with beer – and not just any beer, but Keystone Light. For those of you who aren’t married to misers, this is THE cheapest beer out there. (more…)
The 1st in a series
Last night I dreamed that I found an extra room in my house. I immediately began planning how to use this bonus room and how to decorate it. Then, I opened the closet and, low and behold, a brand new refrigerator. Beautiful, tall, massive drawer space, and unstained doors. This was too good to be true.
I opened the gleaming doors — every shelf was filled to busting with beer – and not just any beer, but Keystone Light. For those of you who aren’t married to misers, this is THE cheapest beer out there. (more…)
April 28, 2009
How Lovely To Be A Woman!
Two things happened this past month that made me re-think being a woman.
One, I watched the local grammar school performance of Bye Bye Birdie.
In one song the main character, 16 year old Kim, sings “How lovely to be a Woman,” in which she glories in her burgeoning figure, the privileges of mascara and high heels and all the perceived goodies of her passage into womanhood.
It ain’t lovely, I thought. Not one bit. You’ll get tired of the constant adjustments women have to make to (more…)
Two things happened this past month that made me re-think being a woman.
One, I watched the local grammar school performance of Bye Bye Birdie.
In one song the main character, 16 year old Kim, sings “How lovely to be a Woman,” in which she glories in her burgeoning figure, the privileges of mascara and high heels and all the perceived goodies of her passage into womanhood.
It ain’t lovely, I thought. Not one bit. You’ll get tired of the constant adjustments women have to make to (more…)
March 30, 2009
Feeling Old
“Already?” my twenty year old niece asked.
“Yup,” I answered. “I can hardly believe it.”
We were discussing my thirteen year old and the fact that he is, well, a teen.
My niece surprised me when she said, “Wow, that makes me feel old.”
I chuckled – and it was in no ways a chuckle of delight, but one of bitterness. I had once felt “old” the way she did, and that was much, much more preferable to the “old” I feel now.
“Already?” my twenty year old niece asked.
“Yup,” I answered. “I can hardly believe it.”
We were discussing my thirteen year old and the fact that he is, well, a teen.
My niece surprised me when she said, “Wow, that makes me feel old.”
I chuckled – and it was in no ways a chuckle of delight, but one of bitterness. I had once felt “old” the way she did, and that was much, much more preferable to the “old” I feel now.
Beauty isn’t just everything to me, it’s everything to everyone. I’ve spent a lot of time thinking of beauty (I wrote a 
