Category Archives: Parenting
Top Ten Ways You Know You’re a Gen X Parental Unit
We interrupt these regularly scheduled naps to bring you the lamentations that have been kicking around in my head this week, as I realize that I am officially no longer cool. Top 10 Ways You Know You’re a Gen X Parental Unit Def Leppard comes on the radio in your car, and you’re torn between …
Bedspins
Today, I want to bring you a very important holiday safety message. Please, folks, stay awake while you are using the Sit ‘n Spin. If you are going to do a layout off the Sit ‘n Spin, DO wear some really entertaining socks. Preferably some that will enable us all to make jokes about the …
Crashed-Out Christmas Help
So, what was your first job? As the holiday season gets into full swing, I am reminded of my very first minimum wage position at Miller’s Outpost in Moreno Valley, CA. I think I had just turned 16, so it was December of 1988. I spent Christmas selling acid-washed jeans, studded denim jackets and pleather …
Culprit is Cornered
Nobody in my house will accept responsibility for the violence directed at this poor, snowy white stuffed dog. Even worse, nobody will take responsibility for the concurrent destruction of my Bobbi Brown lipstick. BOBBI BROWN, ladies. You feel me? I go in search of the culprit and discover a potential suspect, who has holed up …