A Note for Harrison
Dear Harrison:
Thirteen years ago, I found myself expecting the next chapter in the great adventure of our family to begin. I was slow and heavy, my enormous belly dragging behind me as I walked like some great, pregnant rat. Just a few years before I’d been convinced that no other woman in the history of [...]
Filed under: “DUH”
The Washington Post reported an interesting little nubbin today: Despite what they say, teens are likely to have sex. Color me surprised.
But I’m paraphrasing. Ahem.
The direct quote: “Teenagers who pledge to remain virgins until marriage are just as likely to have premarital sex as those who do not promise abstinence and are significantly less likely [...]
Post-holiday post-mortem
I survived. I had a great time.
Thank you Lexapro.
Shout out to the ‘No in “Milk,” yo
The climax of the film is coming. The build. The vote on Proposition Six… and then… and then…
He says it. He says it loud, he says it proud, Harvey Milk (Sean Penn) refers to “Fresno” in the major motion picture, “Milk.”
It was another one of those MY TOWN IS SUCH THE POP CULTURE REFERENCE moments [...]
Oh the humanity and lack of sanity…
There are certain days when the daunting tasks of motherhood side-swipe me, catching me so completely off-balance that I’m shocked to find myself still functioning. Generally, my response at such times is annoyance, and as life’s nifty little events always happen in threes, so ratchets my agitation.
Case in point: Despite tutoring and various forms of [...]
