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It’s Not a Good Idea to Blog when You’re Mad at Your Husband
Probably. At least, not if he actually reads your blog. And mine does. You would think, after (nearly) 30 years of marriage, he’d know that pissing me off is a bad idea. It is, at the very least, always expensive. One of our most expensive rows was right after our second baby was born. I [...]
Cheesecake
My family loves cheesecake (the edible, dessert kind. I have no wish to know what my boys think of the other kind). Birthday cakes are usually cheesecakes around here, which is fine with me because they require a lot less decorating. All of my children can make cheesecakes. Note–”children” equals “boys.” From scratch. They have [...]
I Want a Wife
Not in the changing-my-sexual orientation kind of way. I’m actually fairly happy with my current spouse. But I’m thinking I could use another one. Think about it for a minute. The husband goes to work, comes home, and gets fed dinner. Housework and laundry and errands get miraculously done while he toils away at the [...]
Handy or Handsome?
Does anyone remember the old “Red Green Show?” A product of the Canadian Broadcasting System, it aired in America on PBS stations supported by viewers like you. It was one of a spate of comedies/satires meant to answer the Canadian government’s concern that television was becoming too Americanized. The brilliant Canadian powers that were decreed [...]
Decompensation
To decompensate, according to Wiktionary, is “To deteriorate in function due to an inability to invoke normal defensive mechanisms that compensate for ailments and other stresses.” Even better is the example sentence: 1983, Nancy Scheper-Hughes, “A Proposal for the Aftercare of Chronic Psychiatric Patients,” Medical Anthropology Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 11-12, In some [...]
It was Bound to Happen…
Sooner or later. My husband has started actually reading my site. I have maintained all along that my family knows exactly where to find my site, and that I’m always careful never to say anything that I wouldn’t want them to read. And that’s true. When I first started, I told hubby all about it, [...]
Whose Bright Idea Was It to Let Husbands in the Delivery Room?
Way back, at the dawn of time, motherhood was women’s work. Women not only delivered the babies; they also delivered the babies.
Somewhere around the 16th century, men got it into their little pea brains that they could do a better job, and the man-midwife was born.
It all went downhill from there.
No Mother is Allowed to be Sick Alone
In this cold and flu season, I feel as though my kids are passing viruses back and forth, and I’m the monkey-in-the-middle. Except, I always seem to actually catch it. (Twenty years ago, one of the theories of why the HLA antigen system—that pesky set of cell markers that makes transplants reject—evolved was that it [...]
