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  Anyone who says differently is selling something

  07.26.09 | Permalink | 27 Comments

  My mom got a speeding ticket last week. She was driving up a hill on a lonely stretch of highway between here and New Mexico, and someone was tailgating her, so she pulled into the right-hand lane, but somehow she still ended up in front at the crest of the hill, and she was the [...]

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  Maybe it’s just all advertising

  12.07.08 | Permalink | 8 Comments

  Thanks to the great cultural advancement that is the DVR, I can watch plenty of mind-numbing TV without commercial interruption. But sometimes, as I’m fast-forwarding to the next diagnosis on House, I catch a spot that looks intriguing. Lexus has their annual December to Remember campaign going on. The ads start with a little boy [...]

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  Speaking of people who think that consumers (of news) are braindead

  12.06.08 | Permalink | 9 Comments

  Once, about fourteen years ago, I knew a lot about American History. But even during those months of immersion study for the AP test, I didn’t know much about anything after WWII. Back then the test focused on the Civil War and Robber Barons and the Great Depression. Go ahead, ask me anything about J.P. [...]

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  Because They Would Do The Work Anyway

  11.24.08 | Permalink | 11 Comments

  Leslie Kaufman had an interesting article about caregivers in the New York Times last week. It explored the special care that a caregiver who is related to her charge can provide. According to one such caregiver, Tracy Keil, she* can help her charges who don’t want “just a baby sitter” to live as they would [...]

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  What do you think this is, France or something? *Updated*

  11.23.08 | Permalink | 21 Comments

  Despite early encouraging signs about the availability and eagerness of teenage babysitters out here in Seagull Fountain, we have yet to secure a minder for the coveted Friday night date slot. Today in church the Young Women (12-18 years old) sang that testimony song, and boy! did they look pure and wholesome and ready to [...]

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  What did your father tell you this morning? About eating the blossoms and leaving the greens?

  11.16.08 | Permalink | 19 Comments

  The other day as I was walking into the grocery store with Susan and Spot, a couple in their fifties passed me. The man looked at shivering Spot and said, “Wow, you look really cold.” What he meant was that I was a bad mother who didn’t care that my kid was freezing and likely [...]

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  Voting Makes Me Hungry ***Updated

  11.04.08 | Permalink | 15 Comments

  There’s nothing like standing in line for 5 seconds, filling out a provisional ballot form, and then snapping some pictures of goofy kids at the polls to make you crave a hamburger and fries, and a Coke. Unfortunately, it was only 10:23 am, and McDonalds doesn’t turn the hashbrown-makers into fry vats until 10:30. But, [...]

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