The Worst Babysitting Job Ever

March 5, 2010

I was a bad babysitter.  I didn’t realize this at the time.   But there’s no way I would hire me.  No way.  At the time I thought I was good, I mean I must have been.  People would book me a month in advance.  I just looked the part of good babysitter.  I was shy, [...]

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Spongebob is a Eunuch

March 4, 2010

There is much talk at our house about who does and does not have a penis.  This is mainly from Clyde who has recognized that he is outnumbered.  There are only two penises in the house.  Possibly three, because the guinea pig is a mystery.  There is a cat too, who might be a male.  [...]

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The Rewards are Endless

March 3, 2010

Whoa, Whoa WHOA there.  The WORST mom?  Seriously?  WORST?  I mean I’m aware there are better mothers.  My mom for instance who raised me on granola and carob.  Mother Theresa comes to mind.  So yeah, I didn’t expect to find a note that said, “You are the BEST mom” in my nightstand drawer, even though [...]

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And Now Back to Our Regularly Scheduled Programming

March 1, 2010

Sunday morning I got an email from NPR.  They were going to read a part of my story on NPR’s All Things Considered.  It had been chosen as a finalist in the Three-Minute Fiction contest.  I read the email with the kids swirling around me, the laundry in stacks on the couch, bowls of cereal [...]

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I Deserve to go to Jail

February 14, 2010

I follow a blog called finslippy.  The other day she posted a conversation she’d had with a friend, who has three children, all currently sick.  Her friend was so sleep deprived that she confessed she secretly fantasized she’d get into an accident and have to be hospitalized.  As of today, 79 moms said they too [...]

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