For readers of my blog, it should come as no surprise that I’m an introvert. With posts like Top 5 Reasons to Become a Hermit, Stores That Overwhelm Me, The Holiday Party Survival Guide or Reasons to Stay in Bed Today, you really should have guessed. But being an introvert does not mean I’m mousy, shy or a littleContinue reading “Confessions of an Introvert”
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Much More Than a Bathroom
I read that women spend 1.5 years in the bathroom, over the course of a lifetime. That can’t be true. It has to be much longer. For women (especially moms), a bathroom is a refuge, reading room, mini-spa, hiding place for chocolate (behind the unused bottles of dry shampoo) and crying lounge. So 18 months seemsContinue reading “Much More Than a Bathroom”
Reality Pageants
Summer brings mosquito bites, melted snow-cones and beauty queens in parades. As a community reporter, I’ve sat through many beauty pageants, cringing as teenage girls offer themselves up for physical, mental and emotional critique. Unless you’re 4-years-old, or were born in Buckingham Palace, tiaras are not everyday accessories. But young women nearly kill themselves toContinue reading “Reality Pageants”
Questions that Keep Me Up at Night
Some nights I can’t sleep. After I stop counting sheep, calculating how many more hours of sleep I could get if I fell asleep immediately, and consider getting up to read (which I don’t because I’m too tired), I start pondering the important questions of life. Not questions like, “If you weren’t scared, what wouldContinue reading “Questions that Keep Me Up at Night”
You Know You’re a Mother If . . .
Mother’s are a special breed. Usually a cross between a Pomeranian and a Black Lab, they are either yapping constantly, or smothering you with love. Once you’re a mom, you do things you never imagined, because kids numb your brain to any kind of higher-thought functions. (Your brain on kids.) About the time your 2-year-oldContinue reading “You Know You’re a Mother If . . .”
Proof Our Parents Tried to Kill Us
If you grew up during the ’70s (the 1970s–not the 1870s) then you’re lucky to be alive. The ’70s ushered in the heyday of processed foods, experimental products and sugar, sugar, sugar! The things our parents fed us have now been banned in most countries and labeled with the warning: “DO NOT CONSUME. Side effects include DEATH.” I’m notContinue reading “Proof Our Parents Tried to Kill Us”
How To Be a Better Parent
Now that my daughters are “adults,” I can start telling other people how to raise their children. I can be one of those women with opinions about EVERY aspect of parenting, especially the ones I really sucked at. (The tall ones are my daughters. The short ones are my grandkids. They’re all perfect. Like me.) First,Continue reading “How To Be a Better Parent”
Ask Me About My Temper
(“Peri angry!”) I applied for a job recently, and was asked the strangest question: What can you tell me about your temper? I wasn’t sure what he meant. Did he mean my temper when my dog eats the couch cushions, or my temper when my husband spends the weekend watching the Golf Channel? Was heContinue reading “Ask Me About My Temper”
Foods I’m Afraid to Eat
The American Academy of People Who Want To Scare the S*** Out Of Me (AAPWWSOM) frequently release lists of foods that will cause horrible pain and untimely death. These people need to get a different hobby because they have completely confused me when it comes to healthy eating. Granted, I like cookies, candy, pie and other sugar-ladenContinue reading “Foods I’m Afraid to Eat”
Make Yourself at Home
I love staying in hotels, because (unless my house burned down) it usually means I’m out-of-town. And while I love staying in hotels, sometimes those hotels are . . . well . . . not exactly the best home-away-from-home. But that means I spend more time out of the hotel, enjoying new Mexican restaurants andContinue reading “Make Yourself at Home”
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