Enough Already

When Emma was in Ireland, she made an interesting comment to me on the phone. She said that she couldn’t believe how much was going on in the world, with major situations happening in Iran and North Korea, and scandals in Great Britain (not that scandals in Great Britain really qualify as news anymore.)  And [...]

Top 10 reasons I haven’t been blogging

10. Watching Thriller video over and over and over again, sobbing and eating popcorn.
9. Too busy consoling Patti Blagojevich on getting booted off “I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here.” (Although, given the name, isn’t getting booted off the whole point?)
8. Hugh Jackman asked me to run away with him and had to go.
7. Was sitting [...]

Turning a corner

Yesterday was our first day at the pool.  (Not sure why the pools in Chicago don’t just open between June 15-Sept. 15, because there’s really no point in opening on Memorial Day. Ever.) 
And I realized that, for the first time in years, I didn’t have to run around trying to find the swim diaper and the [...]

I love this dress

Usually, when something seems to good to be true it isn’t, but occasionally, it actually is.
I saw an adorable little black Norma Kamali dress in this month’s O Magazine (maybe you saw it – it was the issue with Oprah on the cover. Ha – a little O Magazine humor.)  I investigated, and it said [...]

The music that was missing

I recently realized that something was missing from my life.
Music.
Not piano music that I play, or church music that I sing. I have plenty of both of those kinds of music.
No, the music that was missing was the music that I like to listen to.  Since I stopped driving to work (almost four years ago), [...]

Missing Emma

I miss Emma.  Standing-over-the kitchen-sink-weeping miss Emma.  Emma is in Ireland with her dad, her grandma, and her grandma’s brother and sister-in-law. (This is actually a much more fun group than the generational description would suggest.)  They left Friday and will be gone for almost two weeks.  Her dad’s been promising her a trip to [...]

The return of odds and ends

It’s been a while since I’ve done an “odds and ends” post. I’ve been too busy I haven’t made time to crawl the Web for useless interesting tidbits. So here we go:
1. Wonderful, wise post from my favorite crabby ad guy, the Ad Contrarian (who listed my blog on his site last week). Having been a client for [...]

Transitions, schmansitions, part deux

When it comes to transitions, David is his mother’s son (and his Pop’s grandson). He doesn’t like them. He wants things predictable, the same. No surprises.  No new things. And because he’s quite literal, he has certain expectations for how things are supposed to be.  And he doesn’t do well well things don’t work out [...]

A Face from the past…and present

A question from my sister yesterday about how I use Facebook got me thinking.
I guess I’ve been on Facebook for almost a year. I don’t remember when I joined, and I’m not interested enough to go back and look it up.
It’s not what I expected when I joined. It’s more like a series of big [...]

My 10 Favorite Pieces of Advice

I try really, really hard not to give advice.  So if you don’t want advice, stop reading now.
Well, okay, since you asked:
1. Just because you can get it zipped doesn’t mean you should wear it.
2. Put a little lipstick on. It will make you feel better. (This one’s courtesy of my friend Eva’s mom. And [...]