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• marriage

  But he seemed like such a nice, quiet guy

  11.27.08 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  Wednesday night as we waited for Australia to start, my sisters and I discussed men. Mary’s marriage imploded earlier this year, and Karen is now much less starry-eyed at the prospect of love and romance than Mary and I were when we were nineteen. Karen asked us how she could ever know if it was [...]

• marriage

  What I see when I see you

  11.22.08 | Permalink | 15 Comments

  I found my place at college when I applied for Writing Fellows. I’d settled on English as a major after trying out everything from pre-med to American Studies, and the idea of telling people what was wrong with their writing, for money, was too appealing to pass up. I adored the other Fellows: the smart, [...]

• motherhood

  Some days I am sure that deciding to become a stay-at-home mother was the biggest mistake I ever made

  11.13.08 | Permalink | 24 Comments

  Today, minutes before I exploded my new Pyrex brownie pan by turning on the wrong burner on my glass-top stove, Dick took the car to his scout meeting. He refused to take any of the girls with him, and, since he worked from home today, he never really “came” home before leaving right before the [...]

• blogging, marriage

  My Better(-Paid) Half

  11.05.08 | Permalink | 14 Comments

  I’m often asked why I blog (WHY do you blog? Why do you blog? Why do you blog?). There are as many reasons to blog as there are people to blog. Basically, writing is good for you like exercise is good for you. It quickens the heart, focuses the mind, works the muscles, cleanses the [...]

• marriage

  Poor Mother Hubbard

  10.30.08 | Permalink | 7 Comments

  Yesterday I came home to find Dick emptying the dishwasher. He’d been pushed that far by an exchange we’d had over Twitter. (Twitter = Communication = Great for Marriage).
  Dick: My left wrist feels like someone ran over it with a car, but I have no recollection of any injury to it.
  Jane: @Dick Hope it wasn’t [...]

• marriage

  Don’t slam the screen door

  10.28.08 | Permalink | 29 Comments

  I’ve been thinking about infidelity a lot lately, probably ever since my sister’s husband left her. Yesterday the New York Times reported that infidelity is on the rise. Politicians cheat, pop culture glamorizes cheating, and sometimes even my own true love thinks that it’s obviously my job (not his) to clean the poop out of [...]

• book review

  Once upon a time (or, Susan’s book pick: Fanny’s Dream by Caralyn Buehner and Mark Buehner)

  09.16.08 | Permalink | 18 Comments

  Sometimes I fantasize about organizing a “too much stuff” intervention for my parents. I try to tell them, nicely, that we have libraries, Blockbuster, and WalMart for a reason: so we don’t have to stockpile every last ding-dang thing in our own homes.
  But ever since Sally learned how to read, it’s been kind of nice [...]

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