On Tuesday, my baby girl, the fruit of my loins, is having surgery. I've been effectively not thinking about this for weeks. But now it's right here, days away. It's a supposedly easy, out-patient thing,…
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You know how everyone makes all the usual jokes about pregnancy and food cravings? Pickles and ice cream will always be hilarious, but these cravings are a serious force to be reckoned with. If I…
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First, watch this video (or at least the first 30 seconds)... My dear friend and tech writer extraordinaire, Ron Miller, posted this video on his blog and sent me over to see it. And I…
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Raise your hand if you’re a writer. Now, raise your hand if you have a nice-sized ego. And now, raise your hand if you lied on that last one and kept your hand down. The…
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I just so happen to have two adorable, hilarious, brilliant children. (In my humble opinion, of course.) They're 4 and 3, and for the last several years now, they've been pretty good kids, except for…
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Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another - Madonna And here we are, eh? The freelancing community has a knack for getting tied up in knots, literally, in our dependency…
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Ham versus SPAM (the 'food', not the unwanted emails). Cheddar versus Velveeta. Labradors versus Dachshunds. Mac versus Dell. (sorry, that one just slipped out) Do you see where I'm going with this? I just got…
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I have a scar on my knee from when I was five and fell off my bike. I have a scar on my left hip from my first chicken pock (a billion followed, but that…
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Last week, I went for one of the best runs I've ever, well, run. I was in Manhattan - and I just flew around the place. It was a mini-exploration that began when it was…
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When I was pregnant, I had a serious problem with smell. This wasn't completely out of the ordinary - other women get like this too, but it usually goes away after the first trimester. Mine…
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