That disturbing line was spoken by a 14-year-old female character in a Lifetime movie, “She’s Too Young”, part of the network’s “Can You Keep A Secret Full Day Event” movie marathon airing today. I can’t think of a better way to spend 24 hours than having the crap scared out of me by countless tales [...]
Does this bother you? Interesting discussion about it over at BlogHer, including a response from Zappos’s CEO: Erin [blogger who knows CEO]: Your new marketing of the ‘Cease and Desist’ shirt is causing quite a stir, including with some women I know. Does the headline “Husbands Can Now Disable Their Wives’ Zappos Account” in anyway [...]
Tonight, BabyGirl, Mini-Me, and I went out to dinner to celebrate Mini-Me’s most excellent report card. Mini-Me picked a place that we’d gone to previously on a Sunday afternoon; we didn’t know that it was more of a “bar crowd” on the weeknights. (I guess I should have known since he tells me all the [...]
Last week, BabyGirl, budding fashionist, was admiring a wool coat that TechBoo bought me recently. Our conversation reminded me of a wool jacket I bought for myself two years ago and the LiteraryMama column it inspired. Confused? Read on… Sunday, Whiny Sunday by Deesha Philyaw “Do we have any bacon?” After I cheerfully rattled off a veritable [...]
“Celita Hart, 19, stood silently in court today when she appeared for a bond hearing. Prosecutors said Hart, who is black, yelled ” ‘White [expletive], [expletive] McCain–you white police can’t do nothing anymore.’” With that, she reached through the window of a squad car and slapped a white male officer in the face, according [...]
Aside from mothering, volunteering, talking about de-cluttering my house, and doing a tiny bit of actual de-cluttering, here’s what I’m working on: Freelancing: Pitching, researching, and interviewing (2 articles, possibly 3) Anthologies: Co-editing Down to the Wire (but the deadline’s not until December); waitinghopingpraying that Learning to Eat finds a publisher. Nonfiction: Drafting a book [...]
…I’m going to post about Sarah Palin. Steph got me talking about her in the comments here, and the next thing you know, I’m driving to pick Mini-Me up from school this afternoon and my mind wanders to, “I wonder what Ann Coulter has to say about Sarah Palin.” Ann Coulter drives me nuts because [...]
Lorrie wants to know if I can come up with a better word for “plus-sized”. As someone who used to happily shop at Lane Bryant, and who will likely always be only a few really large meals away from shopping there again, and who thinks that beauty comes in all shapes and sizes–this subject is [...]
“…and a Few Other Observations from the Summer o’ Coasters” (in no particular order) 1. I really should have bought stock in the parent companies of Hollister, Abercrombie & Fitch, American Eagle, and Aeropostale. Every fourth person in the amusement parks (in four different states!) was wearing a shirt from one of these four stores. [...]
We live in a corner house, and the two large windows in the dining room overlook the sidewalk. The basement is at ground level, so passersby can’t see us unless they look up. This makes us privy to a lot of private conversations. The other night, while the girls and I were having dinner, we [...]