The Mommy Rant

I just realized this today (can you believe it?) and this is about as quasi inspirational as I’ll probably ever get. Ever notice that it on...

I don’t understand people who deny climate change. Don’t something like 97% of all climate change scientists agree that climate change is ha...

Confession: when I play Sorry with my kids and I get the card that sends them back to start - I'm not really sorry. song: I'm Sorr...

Through a set of circumstances that left us without electricity for 24 hours and without water for almost 60, I found myself at the laundrom...

Warren Zevon was 56 when he died in 2003 but his songs have such a wicked sense of humor that I’m including him anyway. He was way cooler th...

Paula Yates was 40 when she died of a heroin overdose in 2000. She was famous pretty much for being famous but her credits included being ma...

Complicated political figure Malcom X was 39 in 1965 when he was assassinated in New York City. This quote is attributed to him and holds a ...

No one has ever asked me this question, “if you could have any celebrity, living or dead, to your house for dinner who would you choose?” If...

WWI Flying Ace Manfred von Richthofen, otherwise known as the Red Baron, was 25 when he was killed over France in 1918. His death was a seve...

Uncle Buck (aka John Candy) was 43 when he died in 1994. Who didn’t love John Candy? John Candy was born in Ontario in 1950. I too have Cana...

Henry David Thoreau was only 44 when he died in 1862. His book “Walden; or, Life in the Woods” was published in 1854. It has never been out ...

Stuart Sutcliffe was the original bass player for the Beatles. He left the band to pursue a career as a painter but died when he was just 21...

It's always something. Comedian Gilda Radner was 42 when she died of ovarian cancer in 1989. I enjoyed her character Roseanne Roseannad...

Queen Nefertiti was 40 when she died in 1330 BC. She was married to the pharaoh Akhenaten who ruled during one of the wealthiest periods of ...

According to Wikipedia, River Phoenix’s work included 14 films and television appearances and yet he only lived to be 24. My personal favori...

George Orwell died of tuberculosis in 1950 when he was 46 years old. I read both “Animal Farm” and “1984” in 1992, when I was 24.

Jesus of Nazareth was 33 when he died at the beginning of the AD calendar.  Jesus’s contributions were many. His most well-known may have...

Jim Morrison, the Lizard King, was only 27 when he died in Paris in 1971. I have never looked particularly good in leather pants.

H.P. Lovecraft was 46 when he succumbed to cancer in 1937 after postponing going to the doctor’s office like a typical guy. Not famous in h...

Pretty sure I’ve outlived half the Kennedy clan. Joe Kennedy Jr., died at 29 in 1944. Kathleen “Kick” Kennedy was 28 when she died in 1...