From the monthly archives:

September 2010

Crap That Doesn’t Make Sense

September 7, 2010

Have you seen this ad? Image credit: Copyranter The ad says “learn to anticipate” and although we can all agree that anticipation is a wonderful thing, perhaps suggesting that building the World Trade Center shorter, so that the high-flying terrorists who hijacked the planes on September 11th missed it, is not what you want for […]

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Cute? Think Again!

September 7, 2010

The other day I had this chat with my 9 year old son, also known as Young Ladrinka. Marinka: You’re so cute. YL: Stop. Marinka: What, don’t you think you’re cute? YL: No. Marinka: Are you kidding me! Why not? YL: I don’t know, because God didn’t make me cute. Marinka: Hmm. Later, I told […]

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Funk

September 4, 2010

I’m in a funk. A friend got some bad news that I can’t discuss here (but if you send me $5, I’ll spill all in a super-secret email) and it’s making me heartsick, I’m dreading my return from our wonderful 2 week vacation, I’m not ready for school to start, I can’t deal with the […]

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How I Became Cool

September 3, 2010

If you’re a relatively new parent, let me give you a little heads up–there will come a time when your children will find you incredibly boring. And I don’t mean to brag, but because my children are super-advanced that time for them came a few moments after their birth, while I was busy expelling the […]

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Does It Seem Like I’ve Been on Vacation

September 1, 2010

forever? Because it does to me, and I’m a little worried about my introduction to society next week. But there are things that are certainly helping it along. Like yesterday, in the middle of the day, just as I’d posted my concerns about our cat Nicki being a failure as a mouser, a MOUSE RAN […]

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