This morning DD starts hollering at me from the kitchen. DD: Maman! For my birthday, I want an Ariel cake. Me: Yes, Ariel cake. DD: For my other birthday I got a nounours. Me: (not hearing her correctly) A new news? DD: Yes! Somebody wrapped him up. Me: (catching on) Ah oui, un nounours de [...]
I have narrowly escaped missing three birthdays in the past two weeks. I have missed all of Michael Phelps phenomenal wins. Swimming is my second favorite event, second only to diving. I love it. A friend told me that her father did not speak to her for fifteen years because she married a man of [...]
Did anyone doubt this last bit ever? I can’t help myself; Oxytocin made me do it. lol. It isn’t as though I’ve never pined over a loser. I am just amused that pining over a loser now has a scientific definition. New Pamphlet Gives College Women the Truth about “Safe Sex” The pamphlet, stylishly tinted [...]
Is that blackmail? I’m not above a little friendly blackmail.
SS (age 8): Christi, I know what I want to be when I grow up. Me: You do? Really, that’s great. What? SS: A Marine. Me: (regarding skinny child who despises athletics) Really, why do you think you want to do that? SS: Because they slay dragons. Me: Hmm. Well, I think that is only [...]
