I’ll never forget the night I got the phone call. It’s nearly midnight and I’m trying to get my eight months pregnant body into a comfortable position. My husband comes into the bedroom and asks, “Did you see the email from your mother?” I shake my head no. “She wants you to call her immediately,” […]
Real Morals of the Disney Movies
Over the past five years, my kids have spent nearly 20,000,000 hours watching Disney movies. Ok, fine, that might be a bit of an exaggeration…but not by much. After all of that time spent in front of the boob tube, I can count up the things they’ve learned on one hand: All princesses wear pink […]
When the Metaphor Goes Awry
When my driver’s license and the elastic in my waistband both expire on the same day, I know I am holding a bag of life’s metaphorical lemons. When I get home and see my year old, still in mint condition, bicycle sitting in the garage I get a glimmer of the proverbial lemonade that everyone […]
Why I Shoved My Kid Down the Slide
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 […]
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 […]