Every once in a while Little Miss Perfect needs to take a break from self-deprecation and spend some time (as I once heard someone say) “depreciating” others. Today’s…
Dear Daughter, Take my hand. And please listen. I’m writing this not to let you know how much I love you, and I do. So much. Not to…
Today I’d like to tell you a little story. It’s a sad story, really, a tragedy in the Greek tradition you might say. A story about hope and…
My son Colin loves to fart. He always has. Farts make him giggle hysterically. He loves the noise that they make and the way it grosses out his…
It’s that time of year when the Christmas Police and the Thanksgiving Purists have a pissing contest with the rest of the world. Don’t pretend you don’t know…
There’s a battle raging in this country, people. And it’s serious. Serious as a heart attack. No, it doesn’t involve Congress and it does not involve Mexican cartels…
Recently, I announced that I am going to stop filtering myself. Yes, readers, I HAVE been holding back. I know this is frightening. It frightens me, too, but…
In the world of competitive parenting I have observed so much madness, and this, coming from someone with as much baggage as I do, is no small thing.…
When you stop to think about it, the process of getting a baby out of your body is amazing. There’s the old-fashioned “natural” method which, in terms of…
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