What does one do when one is almost exactly two years and four months old and is very, very excited about the birthday of one of one's most bestest friends, a birthday that is...
What does one do when one is almost exactly two years and four months old and is very, very excited about the birthday of one of one's most bestest friends, a birthday that is...
When my good friend Tracey took the very brave step of revealing her self - her true, untouched, un-madeup, un-caffeinated, first thing in the morning self - I thought, wow, awesome, so brave, you...
Wonderbaby is sick. Not in any terrible, life-threatening way - she has a bad infection of the tonsils that probably is or involves strep throat - but in a fully mother-alarming way. She's simply...
Ordinarily, when WonderBaby gets sick - which is to say, every single time she has ever gotten sick - you wouldn't know it to look at her. She remains bright-eyed and bushy-tailed and ever-inclined...
My current profile. Which resembles what, exactly?a) A clutch of environmental protest balloons?b) The dark side of the moon as depicted in velvet geek art?Or, c) Alfred Hitchcock's silhouette?And, should I be disturbed that...
You know? It just really, really does. And this is supposed to be the honeymoon period, isn't it? Where you revel in second-trimester glowiness, free of the first-trimester barf-exhaustion-anxiety trifecta and not yet at...
I didn't realize, when Nena's '99 Red Balloons' first hit the radio, that it was about a nuclear accident. I thought that it was just about balloons. I was pretty young. But it wasn't...
The thing about pregnancy? It is comparative, as a physical and emotional experience, to being drunk, 24-7. But it veers, sometimes dramatically, between different varieties of drunk: the kind of drunk that is just...
I'll say this right up front: I haven't seen the movie Juno. (I haven't seen any other Oscar-nominated flick either, because big-screen movies are no longer a central part of my life experience, now...
