The lovely dark-haired woman climbs slowly out of the swimming pool, trying in vain to detach the two kids from her arms and legs as they attempt to convince her to stay in and play a bit longer. As the water slides off her body and the sunlight shines on her face, she looks nowhere […]

Don’t remind my husband, but tomorrow at lunch time I am sneaking out of work, catching a bus to Heathrow and flying to Baltimore, Maryland for the weekend. I’ve taken a big chunk of my fun money savings and bought myself a ticket to the BlogU Conference this weekend. 150-ish awesome bloggers. 20-something super cool […]

I wipe big butts and I cannot lie. You other mothers can’t deny. When your kid walks in with a poopie diaper in place and the smell it hits your face, you know its on! You can’t escape to the beauty salon. Who knew you’d dream about the toilet bowl? Those other mothers tried to […]

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 […]

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 […]

A good friend of mine was recently diagnosed with cancer. When someone you love says to you, “I have brain tumors,” your own brain either immediately shuts down or else it starts to run around like a squirrel hunting nuts. The one thing it does not do is function properly and as a result, you […]

37 women walk into a bar. 37 women who are as funny as the leading stand-up comedians and spend the entire night tossing jokes back and forth as quickly as they can toss down their wine. This is what my life is like now that I am “in” with the coolest lady writers. We have […]

So you want to blog for the Huffington Post? I completely understand. I too wanted to be a HuffPo blogger for a LONG time before finally getting noticed. I watched, seething with jealousy, as my blogger friends got picked up, one after another. I waited and waited for it to happen to me. And then […]