Articles in The Funny Pages
It was about the time that I began critiquing the fashion choices of our fellow passengers in the Long Beach Airport that I realized I may have reached my limit for what the brain could …
The obligatory social functions one is committed to once you have a child are difficult for shut-in’s like myself. If I was childless, younger and spoke completely off the cuff, no problem: my outbursts might …
Our chicken story begins with gardening, as I suspect many urban chicken stories do. Over the last several years we have been shifting masses of soil and plants, sheets of asphalt, mountains of compost to …
One doesn’t want to leave it to a five-year-old to convince the border agent that you’re his mother, but sometimes that’s the only way to roll.
*I found this old gem hiding, deeply buried in god-knows-what alley of my hard-drive. I can’t believe I never published it. If I did publish it, I can’t believe it I don’t remember it. It’s …
As predicted, moving with a bun is less than optimal, although I haven’t decided to trade him in yet. Unfortunately, I also have the worst case of laryngitis I’ve ever had (not even a squeak …
Back before I joined the club with the lowest standards for membership (“Just forget to wear your rubbers!”), I used to go out socially once in a while.
One night a few years ago, we went …
There are times when you are appalled at the ridiculous lengths you go to in aid of keeping your baby asleep.
And there are other times when it seems you’re living out a horror film, with …
This morning, my husband and I were valiantly trying to ignore the recently arisen bun by squeezing our eyes shut while he flailed around next to us in bed; it’s been one of those weeks. …
No matter how many books you read, no matter how many parents you know or kids you’ve spent time with, there is no mentally tangling with what will actually happen once the lodger is born. …
When you’re pregnant, for whatever reason, your body holds onto all of the hair that you would normally shed. For many women this is one of the better side effects of pregnancy; people who have …
