Bathroom Brouhaha

I feel like I’ve missed something. Admittedly, I often feel like this since I’d rather spend my life reading books than interacting with humans, but the furor around this issue leaves me flummoxed. Recently, the Obama administration told schools to allow transgender students to use the bathroom that matches their gender identity. Okay. Great. MoveContinue reading “Bathroom Brouhaha”

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”

Things That Are Truly Frightening

Halloween is approaching with a bloody axe and heavy footsteps. Between “American Horror Story” and “Paranormal Activity,” I’ve been thinking about the things that really scare me. The things that raise my knuckle hair and put a hard knot in my liver. Besides terror-inflicting things like snakes, clowns and Kristin Stewart’s “acting,” there are things I find muchContinue reading “Things That Are Truly Frightening”

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