Month: March 2011

I’m not sure and never really have been from the get-go, where I intended to go with this blog.  Ideally, a syndicated column or a book deal (with a really big advance like Danielle Steele gets so we can get a new paint job on the McMansion) but that’s pie in the sky kind of … Read more

Last nite, my friend and I were talking about the disaster in Japan.  She said, “Did you notice that there’s no looting?”  I had and that people are standing in line for hours on end to find the basic supplies to live and nobody seems to be losing their temper.  Quite a difference from what … Read more

A couple of years ago, our air conditioner went out and we replaced it with a heat pump. Cha. Ching. When it was installed, we also got a new digital thermostat. It was the Mercedes of thermostats and I guess I should have been impressed but I could care less about that kind of stuff. … Read more

Our youngest, Mallie Bee, is the youtube queen and newest, unpaid consultant for A Speckled Trout.  She knows every funny, outrageous video on the web and can often be heard in the computer room giggling away.  This one cracks her up every single time.  I like her to play it just so I can hear … Read more

This was the weekend we got to spring forward and set our clocks an hour ahead to gain an extra hour of sunlight.  I’m what you’d call a low achiever.  Falling behind is what I’ve done my whole life. According to the new time I went to sleep and woke eight hours later.  Why then … Read more

“It is probably something I’ll remember for the rest of my life. I can’t say that about my Econ 202 class.”-student who witnessed a mechanical device demonstrated in a human sexuality class By now you’ve probably heard of the Human Sexuality professor at Northwestern University who had an after-class, live demonstration of a sex toy … Read more

This week marks the return of The Housewives of Orange County.  The original reality show that led to Bravo finding similar housewives in NY, New Jersey, Washington D.C., Atlanta and soon Miami. The Orange County Housewives are my favorite.  The other nite while my husband was watching the news,  I tiptoed up the the stairs … Read more

My daughter is a first year 5th grade math teacher.  It is not unusual for her to call me and be upset.  In fact, at the end of most of her days she cries.  She teaches at a school in a neighborhood that most of us would never go in.  Ninety kids move through her … Read more

If my husband sees a a squirrel at one of his bird feeders or in his vegetable garden, he’ll yell, “Son of a bitch,” and go tearing after it. When he comes back he tells me he how much he hates those furry little bastards. I thought his obsession with them was over the top … Read more

In years past, I’ve kind of dreaded my birthday. Not because I hate the thought of getting older but because it’s a forced happy day and those seem so forced. Family and friends ask, “How are you celebrating?” Well, the birthday mom does the mom thing all day and sometimes that includes baking her own … Read more