March 2011

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• motherhood

  If it weren’t for [blank], I’d ADORE being a mother

  03.22.11 | Permalink | 12 Comments

  bedtime whiny voices bedtime high-pitched helium voices homework bedtime stinky tar-poop diapers whining bedtime chores bedtime Your turn.

• faith, mothering daughters, movies, sex

  “You look good wearing my future”

  03.18.11 | Permalink | 7 Comments

  I still remember the metaphor Donna Martin used in the TV show Beverly Hill, 90210 to convince the parents that sex education is a good thing. She says: what if there’s this swimming pool and you do everything you can to keep the kids out of it, you build a big fence and you keep [...]

• food, holidays, recipes

  Kiss me, I’m a river in Ireland!

  03.17.11 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  This morning I told Callie that St. Patrick was the missionary who took Christianity to Ireland. I have no idea if that’s entirely true, and I didn’t have four hours to spend on Wikipedia, not that it would take that long to look up, but when you add in the seventeen other things I need [...]

• the world

  At least I’ve never been to Haiti (or Libya, I’ve never been to Libya, or Yemen or Bahrain . . . )

  03.16.11 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  I wasn’t going to say anything about the tragedy in Japan, because it’s annoying how people make it about themselves, from a mommy blogger telling you how she spent three months  in Hon-Atsugi to Diane Rehm talking about how the earthquake and tsumani will affect the American economy. Amid the horror and the sorrow for [...]

• blogging

  Everybody’s doing it

  03.15.11 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Last night I was reading a trashy novel on my iPod while Tom watched a TV show on his laptop. In my book, the heroine’s brother had been incarcerated for hacking into Twitter and bringing it down for 48 hours. Just then a character on Tom’s show talked her way into a trendy restaurant by [...]

• Being Mormon

  I’m sorry, Donny, crooning “Puppy Love” to screaming teenage girls is not the same as knocking doors in Siberia

  03.03.11 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  I probably should not say anything about this because to be perfectly honest, I think college sports are only slightly less-worthless to humanity than pro sports are. In other words, right up there with Muammar Qaddafi’s ego in the amount of good they have done the world. But there seems to be some confusion. Jimmer [...]