Remember that scene from “When Harry Met Sally?” The one where Meg Ryan fakes an orgasm in the middle of Katz’s Deli? I’ve provided a link for those of you who need a little refresher: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-v1TZ5qhY4 As hilarious as that scene is it is the gal at the next table who delivers the line that has […] Read more…
Sleeping Beauty is Dead
It’s official: women are sick of waiting for prince charming. 66% of women in a Pew Research Center study place higher importance on being self-rescuing princesses than Sleeping Beauties. 66% of women ages 18-34 responded by stating that being successful in a high-paying career or profession is “one of the most important things” or “very important” in their lives […] Read more…
Getting Old Kicks A**!
My aunt Anne is in Rwanda teaching medical professionals protocols for cancer and AIDS patients. Here is this sweet unassuming mother of two grown sons who has spent her life taking care of everyone else – her sons, her husband, and the patients she’s ministered to as a nurse. So she turns sixty and think […] Read more…
Get Your God On!
As working moms the concept we’re most familiar with is “rush.” We rush to work, we rush from a late meeting with a client home to our families, we rush to make a vaguely edible dinner for our families, we rush to the grocery story to buy a dozen white eggs to hard boil at 10pm in […] Read more…
“My Friends Are My Estate.” – Emily Dickinson
I’d be a raving lunatic if it weren’t for my friends. I’d have divorced my husband, abandoned my children, left my job, walked away from my home, and be living in a van down by the river if it weren’t for the women in my life. My girlfriends keep me honest and sane. It’s almost as if my friends […] Read more…
I Shop at Goodwill
Actually it’s even worse than that. My mother shops at Goodwill for me. And only on 50% off days. And only when she can get her senior discount. I really hate clothes shopping. I think it’s a hold over from my days at Catholic school. I mean who really needs more than two plaid jumpers, five […] Read more…
Ode to My Dog
Four years ago it dawned on me that there were only two things in my life that brought me Pure joy without any accompanying angst: my assistant Anne Cowley and my dog Rupert. Anne has since moved onto bigger and better projects besides my sorry self. But Rupert remains, as always, loving, loyal, and by […] Read more…
Embracing Your Inner Slut
Slut: noun 1. a dirty, slovenly woman. 2. an immoral or dissolute woman; prostitute. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODI-NALkI4c&feature=youtube_gdata_player I have been beyond furious with the comments Rush Limbaugh made about the law student who testified that it would be helpful if her birth control were covered by her medical insurance. I mean I’ve been having fantasies about tying my hair back in a pony tail, putting on […] Read more…
Stay At Home Moms Are Not The Enemy
One of my favorite movies of all times is the movie “Heathers.” A movie dedicated to revealing the absurdity of being a mean girl: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRnluLJXtVk&sns=em For the most part the days of being an insecure adolescent faking our way through high school are far behind us – with one glaring exception. When it comes to […] Read more…
Let’s Play House: I’m the Mommy and You’re the Daddy
So I conned my husband into going to a marriage seminar. At our church. He wasn’t drugged or bound and gagged. It truly was a miracle. The good news is it did bring us closer together as I swear I’ve never felt such love for him as when he offered to go to the bathroom […] Read more…