My friend has struggled with the decision to increase the hours her son is in daycare, and the dilemma is made all the more unsettling because nosy people keep asking, "So when are you going back to work?" Lemme just go ahead and fist pump all the stay-at-home parents out there who want to yell OH HELL, NO ( Read more... )

Okay. So. Let's distract ourselves for a moment with something totally silly and inconsequential while we sit in our heated, stable buildings and whine about that $.99 iPhone app that stopped working.

-- Dooce

...such is the risk and adventure of parenthood. But these risks and these sacrifices, I think, are a fundamental component of this unique experience that has given me more insight and understanding into other human beings than any other of my life. And all of this is to say thank God we chose to have children. Thank God for those endless, ( Read more... )

He described the stereo to me in certain terms that did not give me any idea as to what he had installed, and I did not realize the staggering magnitude of it until I had gone to check our mailbox and needed to put a few boxes in the trunk. There I am in the parking lot of an outdoor mall, a stack of boxes about to tumble out of my spindly arms, ( Read more... )

"No sugar, gluten, caffeine, alcohol, or animal products." Sounds like Lent on crack. Or anorexia but with way more complicated rules ( Read more... )

How much do you have to pay a cop to forget he saw a bloodstained Tickle Me Elmo stuffed with opium? Wikipedia is like zero help over here.

-- Josh Allen's Twitter feed aka fireland

The good news is that my regular medication has leveled out the roller coaster a bit, but I don’t think they make a capsule strong enough that it could totally stand up to the wrath of the female hormone. One minute I’m perfectly fine, sipping a cup of coffee, flipping through a magazine filled with photos of meticulously art-directed living rooms ( Read more... )