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Miss Mayo
Have you ever donated blood? Until yesterday, I hadn’t. My only previous attempt was in the late ’80s, at a blood drive at my high school, when I was told my veins were too small. I’ve always assumed that there was no reason to try again, but yesterday I had three reasons to check that……
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Fewer wrinkles
Some lady with a wad of gum wedged in her molars is always trying to sell me crotch deodorant on social media, but it’s going to be OK.
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Prickly Pear Guestbook
“I am twice married but not a bigamist.” For the past couple of years, I’ve been trying on different ways to say that my children’s dad and I are divorced and that I’ve since remarried but say it in a way that lays clear there’s no villain in the narrative. I don’t like saying “second……
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New Traditions: Acknowledging (and Celebrating) the Suck (from the Momplex Blog archive)
Five years ago, my then-husband and I moved into separate homes within a short drive of each other and began the second phase of our forever-joined lives. Learning to be co-parents with the attendant emotional acrobatics of disentangling our souls through divorce wasn’t easy after 15-plus years together. But I was at least proud of……
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Have you COVID’ed your COVID today? (from the Momplex Blog archive)
A lot has changed in the zillion years since I last wrote. Like right now, I’m sitting in my makeshift home office wearing a “What’s a Bra?” t-shirt that I wore to bed last night and also wore to several Skype work meetings today (video off, thank you very much). I’ve just finished playing another……
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Bitty Buddha 101: What to Do When You Meet Someone with a Bad Name (from the Momplex Blog archive)
I think being part of the human tribe is hard, but for my seven-year-old Buddha, it seems kind of cake-walky. It’s not that nothing bad ever happens to him. I mean, a few weeks ago he breathlessly announced that he was pretty sure he’d met a bully at school. Yet his thrilled expression matched that of someone who’d spotted a Yeti. Some boy had……
The Second Magpie 