** Every third-grader at my daughter’s school has to take part in a mock “Wax Museum” they have in the gym. My eight-year-old has to pick a character from history, dress up like them, and, as the kids from the school shuffle past, she tells about who she is and what she did to become […]
Seven dreadful party personalities
Check out my updated list of the “Seven Dreadful Party Personalities” at OC Family. You might need this guide to get you through the holidays.
What’s your Starbucks’ name?
Peet’s Coffee is not only has my favorite coffee, it’s the closest coffee place to my house. Just a quick walk and I can be sipping my au lait within five minutes of leaving my front door. But I’m back on Starbucks. The reason is as simple as it is pathetic: I can’t get […]
Still successfully dodging holiday responsibilities
(Me and my mom. Look at me with the Ambrosia Salad? What a poser.) We look like normal, grown women. We have jobs and pay property taxes. We swoon at Anthropologie, are secretly in love with Jason Mraz and have kids and husbands; all the outside appearances of being totally functional. But we have a […]
Dear Baby Einstein: Keep the cash!
“Hi, I’m Julie Clark, founder of The Baby Einstein Company…” More women have gotten naked to the sound of Julie’s voice than to the sound of Barry White, Marvin Gaye and Steve Perry’s voice combined. Why? That’s how every Baby Einstein video begins and it has been the cue for a lot of moms that […]
Halloween Dance Party!
Here is a silly little video Emily and and I made in our kitchen. (Music by Oingo Boingo, “Deadman’s Party.”)
Friday Five: Five ways to use ’80s music lyrics to annoy your kids and entertain yourself
I’m eight years into this parenting thing, which is far enough along to develop a few”tricks” to help me get through the squimishes and mind-numbing monotony that come with your mommy badge. I think every mom has these little tools. They are like little idiosyncratic things I do to keep myself from boarding the crazy […]
Friday Five: Five surprising reasons to watch Real Housewives of Orange County
You might think that The Real Housewives of Orange County is a frivolous show, a time-waster, just another reason to move to Portland, but there are some perfectly solid reason to tune-in to those housewives on Bravo, Nov. 5th. In past episodes they have proven to be helpful, insightful, and entertaining, but possibly […]
Breaking News: Rain
For most of you "Rain" isn't news, but in Southern California rain is a screaming headline, a reason for breaking news tickers running at the bottom of the T.V. screen. "Rain" is covered with the same intensity as a natural disaster and for my dogs–George in-particular–it IS a disaster. Maybe it has rained five times in […]
Emily’s Locks of Love challenge
It was a day almost a year in the making–the day my eight-year-old daughter, Emily, was going to get her hair chopped off for Locks of Love. She orginally got the idea when she saw George Parros, of the Anaheim Ducks, cut off his long black hair for charity. Though she wanted to do it […]
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