The kids are in the middle of evil government testing week. This is the way to determine if your school is “good” because everyone knows that sitting kids down and having them fill in bubbles is the best measure of their intelligence. Just ask Einstein. Or Leonardo da Vinci. Or Legolas (apparently Orlando Bloom, the…
A few weeks ago, Senator Dean Heller, the Republican from my state (Nevada), voted to bring gun control up for debate. This isn’t generally what Republicans do, so for about 10 seconds I fell into the trap of believing he might actually be a decent guy. Clearly this is why it was so easy to…
Thought everybody would be anxious to hear the update from my friend whose son experienced the horrible bullying/sexual assault incident at his school. Thanks to everybody who wrote and gave such thoughtful advice. ******** Here is the follow-up, and please let your readers know how much I appreciate their input and support. This isn’t quite…
So I woke up to an email that made my blood boil this morning. A friend sent me this: I’m only sharing this with you because we are pretty similar in a lot of ways, and I think you’ll get my sheer outrage. My son has been the victim of sexual assault, harrassment and bullying…
So here’s one more reason to lose faith in humanity: the LFL or “Legends Football League” (truly, I regret linking to this and showing you any of it, so I’m just sending you to Wikipedia because I know these jackasses really enjoy the publicity from irate people like me writing about them). The LFL was…
So we’re back from Mexico. We failed to get pictures of us swimming with dolphins, ate one of the best meals of our lives, and almost got in a fist fight with a TSA agent. Just your typical spring break… A little background: Tenzin, my husband, and I made the monumentally bad decision to purchase…
Let’s just get something straight right off the bat. The following criticism in no way changes how I feel about the state and actions of the current Republican party. It would take many, many hours over many, many days to convince me that Republicans: want to make sure people won’t starve want to make sure…
I was in Target today, just cruising because I’d hit one of those dead-time points in the day when you can’t go home but it’s too early to pick up the kids, and I found myself in the toy section (for reasons I myself still can’t understand). Anyway, I was checking out the Monster High…
Ever since that study came out about Facebook making people depressed, I’ve read many a blog and Facebook post professing the need to “get real” about our lives. In the most recent article, “We Need to Quit Telling Lies on Facebook” on Kveller.com, Sarah Emily Tuttle-Singer writes about her “real” Saturday with the kids, not the cleaned-up, Instagram-filtered…
I can’t believe I’m writing another post about that stupid Onion tweet… First of all, let me just clarify that in no way do I condone someone calling a 9-year-old the c-word. A little kid shouldn’t be anywhere in the vicinity of the c-word. Hell, I don’t even like being in the vicinity of the…
So come on in. I made some Arnold Palmers. And a nice jello salad...
