The question I’ve been getting a lot this year from Mr. B is how, exactly, Santa gets down the chimney on Christmas Eve. When I was a kid, I was confused by this whole process as well, since we didn’t have a chimney. We had a steel door with a deadbolt. If it was strong [...]
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You haven’t heard much from SuperWoman lately, because she’s busy. See, Autumn is her season. She goes and goes and goes, and kind of likes it that way. But now that winter is coming, SuperWoman can feel it in her bones. (And in her stomach and thighs, unfortunately.) Once red and flaming, she is now [...]
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I just published a post on Babble.com about why I can’t lie to my son about Santa anymore (after this year). It’s a hot topic, for sure, so I thought I’d repost a similar essay I wrote in 2010. The same feelings hold true for me now, with the exception that this year, I did [...]
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Welcome to the One-Year Anniversary Edition of The Maladjusted Book Club! So glad you could join. (And don’t worry if you haven’t read the book. I tried to include a little something for any wanderer who arrives here dazed and confused.) The Marriage Plot Do you think Jeffrey Eugenides watches old reruns of Felicity, that [...]
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Some people (scientists, I believe) say that your body regenerates every seven years. That just happened to me, like, in November. I am an entirely new human being. How do I know this? Well, I’ve made a very unsettling discovery in the past few weeks: Coffee makes me nuts. It didn’t used to. It all started when [...]
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