As I was eating pre-cut mangos straight out of the package today, it occurred to me that my life with the husband and kids in suburbia-land isn't looking all that different than it did when I was in college. Sure, I have three new roommates and two are minors, but, then again, in college I changed [...]
5 Things That Have Changed Since You Watched Grease
January 28, 2014 – Posted in: Beauty, Bullying, Elfie, Getting Older, Growing Up, Mean People, Mouths of Babes, Movies, Nevada, Okay That's Funny, Parenting, Things To Do with Kids, Unsolicited Advice, Women's IssuesThe other night, we all sat down and watched Grease. As far as my husband, Tenzin, is concerned, it’d be embarrassing to become a full-grown U.S. American without being able to sing along to "Summer Lovin'" and "You're the One That I Want" (and no, it's his brother who's gay...) Anyway, it became pretty clear [...]
First Reason Not to Get a Tattoo: Your Mom Probably Has One
December 10, 2013 – Posted in: Beauty, Family, First World Problems, Getting Older, Illustrated by Me, Tammy ThinksA few years ago, a bunch of people I knew started getting what I like to call "SCRatts" (sports car replacement tattoos). You turn 40, need to reclaim a little bit of your youth, and go get some ink. When one of my best friends showed up with a big, blue butterfly on her hip, [...]
One Less
November 8, 2013 – Posted in: Family, Getting Older, Grief, Growing Up, Sappy Tammy, Tammy ThinksMy aunt died. My great aunt. She was 97-years-old, suffering from Alzheimer's, and I hadn't seen her in four years. And yet, I'm crying my eyes out. I don't understand myself sometimes. It's like I'm a giant lake, held in by a structurally questionable dam that breaks at the exact times when the engineers predicted [...]
If They Could Just Stay Little — How to Make a Memory
July 27, 2013 – Posted in: Elfie, Getting Older, Growing Up, Mouths of Babes, Parenting, Personal Insanity, Sappy Tammy, Worst Mom Moments"I'm having that feeling again." My 9-year-old daughter has her arms wrapped around my waist. One cheek is pressed against my stomach. I've just spent the last hour reading Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire to her and her brother, and now I'm trying to extricate myself from the area. She's gotten out of bed [...]
Depression — No, You Can’t Just Go Rub Some Dirt On It
June 11, 2013 – Posted in: Chronic Pain, Depression, Getting Older, Grief, Growing Up, Tammy ThinksYesterday, I found out a friend of mine from college died. She was on a 5-mile run, collapsed right before the finish, and never woke up. I feel terrible for her family. For her husband and three sons. For her parents. For her friends who are "her people" and will feel this the most. I [...]
The New Phone Book’s Here! The New Phone Book’s Here! No, Wait. It’s Just the Holiday Letter.
December 15, 2011 – Posted in: Conservatives are Funny, Gardening, Getting Older, Holiday Letter, Mean People, Money, Politics, Worst Mom RantsHappy Holidays one and all! Time for the yearly letter. For those of you who don't know, this is kind of how I got started with all the blogging stuff. Once a year, I'd send out a snarky little letter about the state of the world -- not much pressure, except for the fact that [...]
Be Like Water. . . And Just Grow Up Already
September 13, 2011 – Posted in: Getting Older, Growing Up, Grown-up Friends, Personal Insanity, Sappy Tammy, TimeLately I've been thinking about how much I've changed over the last twenty years. For whatever reason, little reminders keep popping up to challenge my illusion that I'm still basically the same person. I don't think anyone likes to look back to their 20's and remember that very strong feeling of believing they'd never turn [...]
Arsenic and Old Face
February 28, 2011 – Posted in: Bright Side of Life, Cleaning, Complaining, Dogs, Family, Getting Older, Grown-up Friends, Illness, Momless, Personal InsanitySo today's my birthday. I'm 42. And I've been sick as a dog for four days.I'm trying to teeter toward falling off the happy side of this cliff. As I always tell my kids when they point out an alarmingly old person, "It's better than the alternative." So today I just keep telling myself, as [...]
The Blue Airplane of Happiness
November 12, 2010 – Posted in: Crazy Tammy, Elfie, Getting Older, Grown-up Friends, Me Time, Newt, Parenting, Personal Insanity, The Kids are Killing Me, Time, TravelSo I haven't been dead or under a rock. I've just been in Denver (And, no, that isn't some backhanded comment about Denver, which would be lovely even if you were somehow under a rock. Dead, not so much.). I still can't quite believe it myself, but I was on a real live girls' weekend. [...]
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