Hastily chosen and historically inaccurate photo illustrating ”British admiral.” In 2011, OMG was added to the Oxford English Dictionary Online. The first recorded usage of OMG was in a 1917 letter written by a British Admiral. Reported by The New York Times, March 27, 2011 Email From: Roderick TO: Abigail DT: March 30, 1917 RE: Random [...]
Yesterday afternoon I was in the kitchen patiently stirring a bubbling cauldron of what would become part of Sunday dinner when Noah’s sense of urgency suddenly appeared beside me. I think children wait until you’re fully committed to the “stir constantly” part of the recipe before they NEED you. Stir. Stir. Stir. MOM!!! Stir. Stir. [...]
Hugh got his driver’s license yesterday! Third time’s a charm. I will spare you the details of the long, tedious wait next to the litter-filled scrubby hillside behind a grocery store, which is where cars line up for the test drive. The wait is usually an hour, so bring entertainment. I will also spare you [...]
It wasn’t that long ago that you had your very first haircut and suddenly you were transformed from a baby whose soft loose strands flowed unbridled over your forehead to a little boy with blunt bangs that framed your sweet face. With a few snips of a stranger’s shears, you irrevocably aged and for the [...]
Today I’m running a quick survey: What movie makes you cry? I just heard two DJs talking about this and their nominees were The Notebook and Castaway. One DJ’s mom cries at the same spot in Field of Dreams every time. This topic made me flash back to an early career crisis in my life. I [...]
Those of you who follow me on Facebook and Twitter might know that I was nominated on Monday by 95.7 Ben FM radio station in Philadelphia to receive an award at their annual Woman of Week luncheon at the end of March. You might have even voted for me because I posted the link to [...]
The term pro forma (Latin “as a matter of form”) is a term applied to practices or documents that are done as a pure formality, or seek to satisfy the minimum requirements or to conform to a convention or doctrine. I hate filling out forms. Therefore, I am quite bad at it. Back before our school [...]
If I was ever going to convert from Judaism to Christianity, it would be for the whole Heaven thing. A little known fact about Jews: We don’t really believe in focus on Heaven (or Hell for that matter). Rather, Jews focus on life on earth. Most of our readings suggest that life ends with physical [...]
Why haven’t I invented an iPhone app yet? Why haven’t you? There’s really no excuse. From all accounts, inventing an app is fun, easy, and the latest road to riches. I need an app for tracking stinkbug outbreaks (tied to the full moon, I repeat), for finding thrift shops and rummage sales, for noticing obstacles as [...]
It was a rare, lazy Saturday morning when Noah showed up at my bedside with a request. “Mom, can I make scrambled eggs?” My first reaction: “Absolutely not. You don’t know how to make scrambled eggs; it will be a mess of apocalyptic proportions; AND you will probably burn the entire house down in the [...]
