Archive for January, 2007

I got all my sisters with me

Monday, January 22nd, 2007

A Conversation Between My Daughters:
I suck.
No, I suck.
Stop copying me! I suck!
I suck!
I suck!
I suck harder!
You don’t even know how to suck!
Yes, I do! I suck on my fingers and my thumb to practice.
That’s not what I was talking about but never mind. I suck!
(Hey, I just live here.)

Can it be that it was all so simple then?

Wednesday, January 10th, 2007

Yesterday, I opened up the Washington Post web site to read the morning paper and came face to face with no less than three references to dieting and weight loss, in articles and in ads … all in the first fold.
It’s that time of year again, boys and girls. Now that we’ve all stuffed our […]

I’m in you, you’re in me

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007

Sometimes you learn things about people from doing their laundry.
(That’s why moms run the world.)
Here’s an example, something I found myself contemplating today: what do you learn about somebody from where their jeans wear out?
The kids are really simple. All of them poke holes in the knees of their jeans. That’s because all four of […]