So Saturday, we finally made it to the pumpkin patch. Little background -- we usually go to a pumpkin patch in town, but this year, we thought we'd try out a newish place on the outskirts that our daughter went to on a class trip. It's owned by a family who live on their farm, [...]
Okay, that's it. I'm officially spent. Last weekend, some friends and I walked a few neighborhoods in Reno to Get Out the Vote for Obama (in honor of my cousin, Logan -- it was really nice). We, of course, encountered a number of "I'm not sure who I'm voting for" people. And then this week, [...]
So yesterday I was lucky enough to come across this post from Grass Oil by Molly Field. This is worth a read for two reasons: one, it's a serious, cautionary, Worst Mom Tale (and by that I mean "worst" in the best way possible -- you know, kind of how "bad" and "phat" somehow got [...]
I got a comment from a reader on my last blog who was basically annoyed with me because she felt I voted with my vagina. Which is strange because I didn't even know my vagina had fingers (although my husband does claim it has magical properties). Anyway, she was generally ticked that I vote for [...]
Well, it's official. After watching the vice presidential debate and running into these two little gems on the internets, I'm totally screwed if the Romney/Ryan ticket ends up in the White House. Because there's absolutely, positively no way I'll ever be able to look at Paul Ryan and not start laughing my bloody arse off. [...]
Sometimes when I hear all the political rhetoric flying around, I think there's no way it could actually reflect your average guy on the street. It's just too...crazy. Clearly all of the nuts we're seeing on TV are just the loud, proud radicals who get their voices heard because it's interesting. But as it turns [...]
There's been a whole heap of nasty stuff being thrown around about women lately. I mean, back when I was twenty, if you would've suggested that we'd be bickering about safe access to abortion or questioning if an assault victim "asked for it" in 2012, I would have chortled (because I did and still chortle [...]
So here's something that might kind of make you want to hurl. You know Spanx, the modern-day girdle that some people (not me because I'm too lazy, can't bear being uncomfortable, and don't have anywhere important to go) are obsessed with because we've all been convinced that we need to look like Barbie underneath our [...]
I'm not going to write a whole lot about the horrible shooting in Aurora last week -- other people have done a stellar job of that already (including my friend over at DeBie Hive). But I feel like I can't move on to anything else until I've acknowledged it.So let me just say this: one [...]
Dear Boy Scouts of America, I'd just like to thank you for finalizing the deal on the whole, "We hate gay people" thing. I appreciate you being so -- in Boy Scouty terms -- "forthright" about it and coming straight out with your bigotry instead of continuing to hide behind some excuse about "Needing to [...]
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.