The Mommy Rant

when living on the edge means maxing out your library card. Fifty books, baby!

Up until today I thought this song was "Green Grass and High Times Forever." Thanks Sirius for clearing that up. It should be Gree...

YES! Spirograph is back! I loved, loved, loved Spirograph when I was a kid. Spent hours with it and hours later on doodling in spirograp...

You'd have thought J.R.R. Tolkein would have had the foresight not to give two of his evil characters names that have a difference of o...

An Earth Day message from S & N. song: Let it Grow • artist: Eric Clapton

Accepting a fistful of dandelions with the same enthusiasm you would a bouquet of roses.

Things I forgot to pack: the corkscrew the cribbage board the alarm clock the umbrellas  None of these omissions mattered too mu...

First I'd like to thank the toll booth guy who walked over and gave me a ticket from his booth after I accidentally pulled up to an E-Z ...

The thing I love about a road race is that it's the only sporting event I know of where everyday competitors compete in the same event w...

So I hear the cicadas are making a return this year. Cicada mania they called it on the radio. I thought cicadas were every 17 years? E...

There were these two moms on the playground (and me) yesterday and one mom was telling the other how she'd chastised these parents on th...

"You can't have your cake and eat it too." What kind of stupid expression is that? Why would you bother having some cake at ...

A few posts back I wrote about the Starbuck's patron who paid for his latte by flashing his cell phone at the cashier. I believe there ...

The Easter bunny is a tough sell.  Can anyone really explain the Easter Bunny? At least Santa's human. Here's what we learned thi...

song: Hold Me Now • artist: Thompson Twins

I'd like to lump Coonamessett Farm in with the Farmers Market vendors and implore you all to support them as well. I've heard the ar...

It's harder to write about the things you really care about than the things that come from off the cuff. And not because you fear reject...

resisting the urge to stand under the hot shower - all day.

telling your sons they can't eat in the bathroom, because "food and poop don't mix."

If you don't know what bathroom talk is then you've never parented young boys. I was explaining to S & N the other day that th...