Ways around the silent treatment, when it comes to tweens and teens.
Knees make news, and US Open moments
It’s US Open time. Tennis! And last night on ESPN I watched Venus Williams play Vera Dushevina, remembering the Williams sisters some 10 years ago, and how exciting that was. This match had its tense moments, but it seemed more painful than exciting as Williams struggled with knee pain to drop the first set in […]
Everyone has an agenda. But gimme a break!
I’m rushing to get out of the house. My kid forgot his tennis shoes. Again. He needs them for school, and he needs them now. I’m mid-screen, mid-writing, mid-hair drying, mid-bill paying. And now the damn house phone rings, then my cell phone. It’s someone I know – not well – who wants something from […]
Action Babe and the Elusive Villain
There was a babe, a push-up corset, a little bit of rock hard belly peeking through. One chic cuff on the left wrist. Hourglass figure, strong thighs, black boots, and big, batting, heavy eyelashes, the false kind, though her eyes were sharp and aware as she readied for attack. She was more than an action […]
Saucy single mother seeks kept woman position
I am not a kept woman. But I have nothing against it. In fact, I’m all for it! Consider this my online announcement: SAUCY SINGLE MOTHER SEEKS KEPT WOMAN POSITION. My, but I’ve traveled a far piece of road since the heady, feminist 70s. (Cover your bunny ears, Gloria Steinham! Pull down the brim of […]
What do we build?
My 17-year old was bent over the patio table outside, with two friends, well after midnight. Nothing unusual in that – they joke around, they eat and drink. Mostly, they chat and listen to music, sometimes gathered around a laptop. Surprise, surprise Last night I was curious. I wanted to know what they were doing, […]
Good News Extravaganza (Bad News Moratorium)
Life sucks. We know. I’m tired of reading bad news. Enough already. Do you hear that New York Times? Wall Street Journal? MSNBC? We get it. This guy? No one looks like this guy. Not on my planet. Hell – I’ve got a laptop in my bed, not some hunka-hunka-sweet-faced manhood with pouty lips and […]
Fortune cookies (and the pursuit of happiness)
You always bring others happiness. That was the message when I cracked open the cookie and read the fortune on the skinny slip of paper. Dessert, following Chinese take-out. Well. I suppose I made the restaurant happy when I purchased lunch for three. Does that count? Routines – ho hum Can’t say there’s been much […]
Life Before Google. SATs. A Great Omelette.
“Register for the SATs,” I said this morning. Again. As I was pulling laundry out of the washer, and shoving it into the dryer. “They’re coming up in early October.” “How do I do that?” he asks. My son is 16. He’s fixing himself the king of all omelettes. “Google!” I holler, from the next […]
I lost my summer. (Where did it go?)
Do Russkipreneurs somehow know I speak Russian? How many times do I have to delete their spam? Right. It’s not a conspiracy. They’re spamming us all. Do my teens realize the summer has disappeared? The past two months have been swallowed by a black hole. Right. I did it myself. So much for my daydreams […]