Happy Holidays MoB readers! In the spirit of giving, Jessie and I are giving ourselves a little break from posting during this most wonderful time of the year. We wish you all the happiest of holidays and the very best in the New Year. We will return on January 2, 2012 with lots of material! [...]
I used to dread going to Phil’s work party. Maybe because after 7 years of marriage, I am still not exactly sure what Phil actually DOES. I tend to freeze up at the question: “Oh, what does your husband do?” I just string together some key words like “engineering…validation….pharmaceutical…software…services” until the person’s eyes glaze over [...]
I had a few minutes of alone time on Wednesday night as I drove to a meeting at my synagogue. My mind always races when I’m in the car, often at the speed at which I’m driving which in this case was 73 … 65 … 56 mph. As I neared my destination, my thoughts [...]
It is mid-December and somewhere out there the 2012 Parent of the Year nominations are due. The following is my submission for, uh, ….. myself: Last month, our family traveled down to Washington D.C. for the weekend and on Saturday night Chase and I found ourselves standing in the literary section of Urban Outfitters in Georgetown. [...]
It all started so innocently. I thought, what’s the big deal? Everyone is doing it. Besides, it’s only once and a while…it’s not like she’s doing it all the time. She can stop any time she wants to. We all deserve a little treat now and then, right? Everyone needs a little something to help [...]
MoB is pleased to have guest blogger Kate Barrett share a tale today – one to which we can all relate. Read on…. My 5-year-old lost her first tooth yesterday. After weeks of wiggling, tongue-pushing, and finally aggressive twisting, it finally succumbed during math lessons. I got the news as soon as I got home [...]
As you go through your daily routine, do you ever find yourself thinking that your life resembles a Hollywood movie? It happens to me all the time. But only recently have I been inspired enough to write about it. So to demonstrate the remarkable likeness, below I have presented two, side-by-side shower scenes. One is [...]
Even as a little girl, I was always told that I had a vivid imagination and a flair for the dramatic. By the time I was five, my neighbor Mr. Padden referred to me as Morgan Fairchild. I had no idea who that was, but the name sounded pretty glamorous so I just rolled with [...]
Like many of you I’ve followed the Occupy movement with sense of curiosity and befuddlement. In solidarity with the protesters, I share the sentiment that something is not quite right in America these days. But that’s where my camaraderie ends. Because – hellooooo – life has never been fair and the 99 percent have always [...]
