I recently commented on an animated thread on another social platform. I shouldn’t have. It was a weigh-in about Rock v Smith at the Oscars of course. Hundreds of comments thick, I waded in. I […]
Category: The Truest Sentence [I] Know
It’s All Good in the Childhood. (True Sentence No. 11)
It’s all good in the childhood. I am obsessed with my kids’ clothes. I wish everything they had came in my size. And looked equally cute. (I don’t love the mama size options for most […]
Why Swearing is Good for You: People Who Swear Are Healthier, More Resilient, and More Intelligent
Trigger warning: This post contains some highly profane expletives that readers may find offensive. When I was in high school, I recall an English teacher saying cuss words were a sign of poor vocabulary and […]
Ungathered for Christmas
The Most Magical Hype of the Year Christmas is magical when you’re a small child, and at some point it transforms from being a season of sheer delight into a season of hype. All the […]
Like Watching Your Heart Walk Around Outside of Your Body (True Sentence No. 10)
It’s like watching your heart walk around outside of your body. That’s a paraphrase, of a paraphrased quote, I stumbled upon yesterday. Being a mother is like watching your heart walk around outside of your […]
8 Levels of Unsolicited Parenting Advice Hell: What Type of Advice-Giver Are You (Dealing With)?
“Your kids are cold! They need more layers” “They look fine.” “Well they’re not. They’re too cold. You need to bring them back home. NOW.” That cold-weather exchange, with a stranger, was a bit heated. […]
Don’t Over Plan Outfits for Family Pictures (True Sentence No. 8)
Lights. Camera. War. It’s family-picture time, baby. Time to battle-plan for that magical shot: Smiling, cherub-cheeked children. Children not merely laughing, but frolicking, gaily in gold-dappled meadows of wildflowers or a forest glen. Festooned in frocks and frill from Soor Ploom or Rylee + Cru.
ANYTHING WORTH DOING IS WORTH DOING BADLY (TRUE SENTENCE NO. 7.2)
I recently stumbled upon a blog post (that I can no longer find) about how anything worth doing is worth doing poorly. And a Google search earlier today led me to this G.K. Chesterton quote: […]
True Sentence no. 6: finding friends for your kids can make you look like a pedophile
With a 3-year-old and 1-year-old, I’m on continual lookout for neighbor-kid friends. All of our immediate neighbors have kids 1 to 2 decades older – definitely not prime friend age. So when I saw a […]
Why “oooh-oooh-baby-spam-me-hard” is a bad choice for your email address (True Sentence no. 5)
If you want a designated email address for your spam email messages, you should create a very vanilla handle like “Stacys-spam-messages” at your-preferred-email-provider-dot-com, Because if you create a snarky spam email account with an email […]