By now, you’ve probably read the CNN.com article making the Internet rounds by contributor Jeff Pearlman. In “A father’s day wish: Dads, wake the hell up!”, he takes his fellow dads to task for devoting their precious little free time pursuing purely selfish (and kid-free!) activities like golf and wonders why more dads don’t want…
At Home
My Nam
A word of warning: I’m going to get all emotional in this post. Don’t worry, the snarky person you all know and love will return tomorrow. But like an onion, I’ve got layers. Two years ago today, my greatest hero died. My grandmother, whom we all called Nam (because my oldest cousin couldn’t say “Gram”…
Back to Normal
I’m so glad we came back from vacation on Thursday. We definitely needed a long weekend to get back into real life groove. Although try telling that to DadJovi or E. While I slogged through load after load of laundry on Friday, they decided to hit not one, not two, no, no, not three but…
How Did This Happen?
During the massive Spring Cleaning of 2011, I also tackled another big project — packing up the rest of E’s baby clothes. I’ve already gotten rid of the majority of them at our yard sale and the biannual consignment sales in our neighborhood. But every time I think I’ve sorted through them all, I find…
Cleanin’ Out My Closets
I’m not sure what’s up with me, but I’m on a tear lately. Two weekends ago, I spent an entire Saturday massively purging my closet. By the end of the day, I sent four bags of clothes to Goodwill and threw away another two (someone remind me why I hold on to clothes with stains…