by Tammy Soong
January 28, 2014
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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 Issues
The 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 [...]
Here's a testament to how well people learn when the material means something to them -- I can remember second grade better than, well, most of college. I had a teacher, Mrs. Keyes, who made you forget you were in school. Let me give you some examples. For the science fair, we made a giant, [...]
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 here's something I've never told you guys: I met the president. I even got to talk to him. And he hugged me. And no, I haven't OD'd on pain meds -- I'm being serious. I don't talk about this a lot (clearly, since I've been blogging for almost four years and am just mentioning [...]
As much as I bitch and complain about technology, one thing I love about the internet is its ability to help people. Myself included. I can't tell you how many times I would've been shut up in this house, feeling all alone if it weren't for my laptop. Anyway, I came across someone who needs [...]
by Tammy Soong
December 29, 2012
– Posted in:
Elfie,
Mouths of Babes,
Movies,
Newt,
Parenting,
Personal Insanity,
Sex,
Tenzin,
Thank God Your Father's Home,
TV,
Worrying,
Worst Mom Reviews
I went and saw Les Miserables with a girlfriend the other night. It was an amazing movie, but for some reason, I still feel like I could just nitpick it to pieces. I'm starting to think this could be my calling -- professional life nitpicker. Too bad I can't get someone to pay me for that... [...]
We went to see Rise of the Guardians today. The odds were already heavily in favor of me crying because I cry at just about everything. But this had Christmas spirit, childhood dreams, and overcoming personal tragedy all wrapped up into ninety minutes, so I really didn't stand a chance. Later I heard the kids [...]
I love Kickstarter. If you don't already know, it's this website that lets people who have really good ideas (okay, sometimes not such good ideas) put them out in the universe and ask everybody in cyberland to help pay for them. I want to say the fancy word for it is "crowdfunding." Kickstarter is also [...]
Tammy Soong is a writer, wife, and mom from Reno, Nevada. She takes an absurd amount of pain medication, but not enough to have actually named her children "Newt" and "Elfie." She spends most days stressing out over clutter, writing stuff for this place, and working on podcasts with her gal pals, the Blogging Betties.