We’ve all been there. We’re standing at the bottom of the playground slide. A line of kids ten deep is stacked up at the top. And blocking up the whole process sits a sobbing, snotty, mess of a toddler: ours. It seems like most of the so-called parenting experts nowadays are telling us to intercede […]
Archives for April 2014
The Woman in My Head
I’ve been a reader my entire life. Just ask my mom and she’ll recount the number of times she had to turn off the power to the bathroom to get me and my book out of the bathtub. Or ask my husband and he’ll tell you what it is like to go on vacation with […]
The Bra Fitting
It’s Friday and that can only mean one thing: it’s time for another Friday Funnies for Cancer. As a special treat today, I’ve decided to introduce all of you to Madeleine. Madeleine is one of the heroines of my new book….are you intrigued? All I can tell you right now is that it is chick […]
Character Assassination Carousel: Taking Down Ariel
We all have one…that book or story that our kids beg to hear over and over again that makes us BONKERS! My friend Nicole from Nicole Leigh Shaw Tyop Artist runs a really fun series called Character Assassination Carousel. Each month a blogger gets the chance to take down a story character. Last month Christine […]
To The Man or Woman in Row 23
Sometimes life hands you lemons and sometimes it hands you a giant bag of steaming dog poo. British Airways just told me that paying $135 is the only way to guarantee that I can sit with my three and four year old daughters on our flight from NY to London, so I’m pretty sure I’m […]
Friday Funnies For Cancer
A few weeks ago I told you guys about my amazing friend who has cancer. I’ve decided to continue my funny support by doing a weekly (ok, fine, mostly weekly) Friday Funnies for Cancer. I’ll share some of the funniest things I’ve seen on the interwebs during the week before, feature some special guests with […]
7 Signs You’ve Got a Threenager
Last week I sat down and wrote this post, with my tongue quite firmly placed in my cheek. Then yesterday I spent EIGHT hours trapped in the metal hull of a speeding 777 with my threenager. My tongue has been removed from my cheek. Sometimes I really hate being right. Forget everything they say about […]
What I Learned from an 86 Year Old Adventurer
Growing up in the Deep American South, I was encouraged to do a lot of things, but running off to California was not one of them. Nor was marrying a damn foreigner, moving to some god-forsaken country or not bringing those grandbabies around more often. I suspect my poor parents look at each other from […]