I was blessed with four daughters. And by “blessed” I mean I survived raising four girls without landing in a correctional facility or a mental asylum. Yet. As my daughters say, there’s still time. In our Biblical-based patriarchal society, having four daughters (and no sons) is akin to kicking your ancestors in the teeth. IfContinue reading “Top 5 Things You Should NEVER Say to a Woman Having A Baby Girl”
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Do You Have AWDD?
You might be a perfectly calm, organized human being on the weekend. You manage to find time to eat, shop, play, rest, watch TV, walk the dog, bake cookies, wander aimlessly, do yard work, hit the gym, meditate and read a favorite book. But on Monday morning, you suddenly find you can’t function. You can’tContinue reading “Do You Have AWDD?”
Super Tuesday? WTF?
Talk about an oxymoron.”Super Tuesday” is right up there with “airline food,” “Microsoft Works” and “government organization” when it comes to contradictory phrases. But Super Tuesday it is. Today, residents in 12 states and American Samoa will cast their ballots in either a primary a caucus or a hullabaloo, making it the biggest day of theContinue reading “Super Tuesday? WTF?”
Absence Makes the Heart . . . Whatever
I’ve been blogless for the last month or so. Usually, I’m super-almost-consistent-once-in-a-while to post on Tuesdays because Tuesday is the worst day of the week. But lately I’ve slacked, what you might call “slackled.” Winter in Utah is dreadful. If it’s not a blizzard during the commute, there’s a death-inducing, lung-clogging smog that smothers the Salt Lake Valley likeContinue reading “Absence Makes the Heart . . . Whatever”
Things Driving Me Crazy Today
Tuesday. The smelly, unshaven armpit of the week. Here’s the first list of Things Driving Me Crazy in 2016. When I walk 15 flights of stairs (because Fitbit) but my gadget only counts nine flights. People who don’t shovel snow off their sidewalks and now that snow has turned into mini ice glaciers that IContinue reading “Things Driving Me Crazy Today”
Top 5 Ways For Americans to Pull it Together
I read news headlines with increasing horror. Not because of the atrocious acts committed by people with more weapons than brains, but by the reaction of our country (the freakin’ United States of America!!). After the tragedies in Paris and San Bernardino, some Americans are called for an end to accepting refugees fleeing from war. WAR! Women,Continue reading “Top 5 Ways For Americans to Pull it Together”
Utah 2015: A Recap
Utah survived another year but several significant events made headlines, including Mormon preppers convinced the world was coming to an end on Sept. 28. Didn’t happen. But here are some things that did happen: President Obama visits Utah In a token gesture to our super-white, super-conservative and super-Republican state, President Barack Obama reluctantly stepped off anContinue reading “Utah 2015: A Recap”
Getting in My Pants
When I was in kindergarten, I only wore dresses because I was a princess, dammit! My mom whipped up dresses on her Singer sewing machine and I’d fluff around class, mocking the girls who were low enough to wear (gasp) pants. (I was a precocious little snot.) But a field trip to the zoo changedContinue reading “Getting in My Pants”
An Open Letter to Santa 2015
Dear St. Nick, I know you’re busy with all your dashing and dancing and prancing and vixing, and I know you have mall appearances, party stops, photo ops, elf control, reindeer upkeep and sleigh polishing, not to mention Mrs. Claus’ to-do-list. So I thought I’d help you out by putting together a Naughty/Nice list thatContinue reading “An Open Letter to Santa 2015”
A Brief History of Children
When silly, old Eve chose wisdom over nudity in the garden of Eden, what was her punishment? That she would be fruitful and multiply. In non-biblical words, she was doomed to have children. Seems like the penalty didn’t really fit the crime. Did she understand, as she grew rounder and larger and moodier, that a parasitic growth wasContinue reading “A Brief History of Children”
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