ArchivesNovember, 2008

I finished college before I ever saw a football game.  My family watched plenty of football on TV every fall weekend, but I was completely uninterested in the game.  I had no idea how football was played, and frankly I didn't care. Basketball was always my favorite sport.  I enjoyed watching college basketball, especially the Continue Reading

I don't know if it was the recent election coverage or the phonics-teaching Leapfrog DVDs my kids are insanely addicted to, but I've been thinking about an old cartoon a lot lately. Unlike today, where there's cartoons on pretty much 24/7 (heck, there's even an entire channel or two devoted to 'em!), when I was Continue Reading

My oldest child will soon be of legal driving age, which makes me think back to the time when I got my driver's license.  Of course, I went through all the "behind the wheel" training through my school and lived to tell the tale, even when one of my friends drove the training car up Continue Reading

I don't know how it works at other schools, but I consider PTA meetings a "Shoe and Handbag Fashion Show." In my book, there's no place better to spot some great shoes or bags. You'll be sitting around in a "cafegymatorium" or touring classrooms for at least an hour with a bunch of other moms. Continue Reading

I think that everyone has a Dream House. I know that I do. In fact, I've had the same Dream House since I was a very small child. We used to visit relatives who lived in a town full of old Victorian-style homes.  I'd sit there in the back seat of the car, sighing over Continue Reading

We don't eat out much.  There are a few reasons for this; my husband's work schedule is one of them.  He doesn't always get to walk out of his office at 5:00 on the dot. The other reasons are the children.  We've been trying to civilize them since Day 1, but somehow they've managed to Continue Reading

Books. I can never get enough of them. I have them piled on my night table and on a small table between my desk and the couch. I have a tote bag full-to-bursting with library books. More books are double- and even triple-parked in my living-room bookcases (where I have them stacked horizontally because I Continue Reading

I've never been that good at makeup.  During my adolescence, I failed Hair and Makeup.  The one lipstick that I own is used so rarely that even though it's eight years old, it has barely lost its point. My 12-year-old daughter J uses more lip product in the course of a week than I have Continue Reading