Dalai Mama Dishes
Three-Ring Circus
Sure, it’s a little pretentious, like performance art always is — the way he plucks the strings on his guitar in the moody half-dark of the candlelit room while she reads a dramatic sequence of verses about Spain. But there’s something about the way they lean together, something about their chemistry and the classic power [...]
There’s a Reason Why We Can’t Predict the Future
A friend of mine, who also happens to be the funniest person in the entire world, just sent me an e-mail describing her son’s exuberant personality: “We’re trying to work with [him] about noticing the temperaments of his friends (i.e., not always like his),” she wrote. “Otherwise, he’s going to turn into that guy at [...]
Winter Wonderland’s Crotchety Neighbor
It’s cold finally. On school mornings, we have to pry the kids from their warm cocoons of sleep and carry them downstairs, arrange them on the kitchen couch where they huddle drowsily under blankets until their poached eggs are ready. Later, everyone dashes from the house to the car, screaming through the cold, yelping about [...]
‘Complete Idiot’s Guide to Enhancing Self Esteem’ is the Actual Title of a Book!
Maybe you suffer from this condition too, since it affects far more women than men. I’m not talking about the teenaged pimples sprouting perversely on your crone’s forehead like tulips in October, or the way such missiles as “Tell me you didn’t take her sledding without gloves!” are launched daily from your silo of nagging. [...]
It’s Better to Have Loved and Barfed…
Birdy and I are on the futon together, considering life’s ghastliness. We’re lying on old beach towels. “I think,” Birdy says, thoughtfully, “that you barf because your belly…” she pauses here, thinking some more. “Because your belly’s too…full of barf!” Indeed. And here’s the thing: I once wrote about my fear of barf and barfing [...]
Good for Nothing
If your kids have been in the bath for over two hours — every digit shriveling away to wrinkled white stubs while they take turns turning your hospital-issue postpartum spray bottle into a watery volcano — it seems safe to assume they’ll stay in there, oh, another fifteen minutes or so. Ten or five minutes, [...]
Cry associated with Anything
“When had been the final moment a person cried cry associated with pleasure? ” Our own good friend Andrea is actually going to all of us, requesting — since the girl constantly really does — the type of extreme queries which quit a person brief, each and every if you’re flowing your self one more [...]
Lisin Towards the blowing wind Bloe
Yesterday evening I discovered, hidden underneath the inclined tower system associated with my own to-be-filed documents, the poetry which Billy published specifically 12 months back. Allows Proceed Carried out in order toDreem Property tooge-Ther As well as Will end up in The actualMaJick Entire worldFarees sworLurond a persononce we Lisin Towards the blowing windBloe Because [...]
In order to Birdy in the Goose Fish pond
You would like to sit down alongside me personally within the reduced wood made table in the pond’s side, however if you’re as well anxious about the actual geese. “They’re arriving! ” a person weep, as well as stay upward once again. The actual set skims in the direction of all of us, therefore quiet [...]
Green tea Celebration upon Chemical
From the lengthy springtime night: daffodils blossoming, the actual hemorrhaging minds simply rising, the entire world a good pain associated with azure as well as eco-friendly. Might presently there become a much better second in order to spillage a whole glass pitcher associated with hot peppermint green tea from your a drink desk? Obviously not [...]