From the monthly archives:

January 2011

I Got Your Blood Libel Right Here!

January 12, 2011

Today’s guest post is coming to you straight from my friend Vicki Boykis. She’s a fellow Russian Jewess funny lady! She and I are practically twins. Born decades apart. Fellow Jews-Are you tired of waiting for Passover to be blamed for the deaths of hundreds of innocent Christian children by including them in your matzoh […]

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Living With Fear

January 12, 2011

For the past few days, I’ve been living with fear. The fear that my Mama will read the article written by the Chinese Mom and tell me that I should become Chinese and that my new-fangled Western methods are ruining my children. If you’ve been living under a rock, or abroad, or just out for […]

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Let’s Make a Deal

January 10, 2011

I swear to you, when I was pregnant with my children, I did not watch a single episode of Let’s Make a Deal.  So it’s a huge shock that the episodes that I watched during my teenage years imprinted themselves on my fallopian tubes in such a manner that my son is now Monty Hall. […]

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Remedial Blog School: Happy Ending!

January 9, 2011

Welcome back to Remedial Blog School! Today’s topic is writing an excellent ending for your blog post. As in, you better do it. Because when your blog post just peters out, the reader becomes unhappy.  “Why the hell did I read through the whole post?” the reader wonders. And seethes.  And plans for revenge. We […]

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Oh, Arizona

January 8, 2011

I write what I hope is the humor blog, but sometimes the world doesn’t play along.  Which is really insensitive of it, when you come to think of it. Like when someone opens fire in a supermarket, shooting 18 people, and killing several , including a nine year old girl (a 9 year old girl, […]

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The Resolution Keeper

January 7, 2011

It’s been almost a week and so far, I’m sticking to my resolution not to buy unnecessary stuff for me and the kids. There was a rough patch there when I thought I’d have to replace my slippers, but fortunately, the crisis was averted. I had a talk with the kids about not spending money […]

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I’ve Been Discovered!

January 6, 2011

I was just looking at the comments in my spam filter, because sometimes real comments from readers get caught amid the grow beautiful penis! enticements and I found this gem: You are soooo gifted in writing. God is truly utilizing you in tremendous methods. You are doing a great job! This was a wonderful blog! […]

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Anything Is Possible

January 5, 2011

Young Ladrinka told me a joke yesterday that made me laugh and laugh, even though it contained the word “fart” or maybe because of it. The premise of the joke is that the Big Chief decides that he wants to fart, but he doesn’t know how, because he’d never farted before, so he sends a […]

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