Sigh. Your ladybrain clearly isn't comprehending. He said you can do ANYTHING you want EXCEPT be a couch potato. You could read (but not anything too serious, just enough to engage in conversation with potential husbands), take up flower arranging, darn socks, learn to can your own pickles, steal a baby from the mall…

Has anyone else noticed a lot of criminals citing BOREDOM as a reason for their crime? I mean, why not take up crochet. Crochet never hurt anybody.

It has a Sistine Chapel with the creation portrayed by Precious Moments. And a live floor show with eight foot high Precious Moments people and the actors peer out of eyeholes in their chests. My aunts made me go. One of the actors tried to pull me up on stage and I hissed, "if you don't let go I will scream." I still…

I just involuntarily blessed myself. And I'm not even Catholic.

This makes me miss Regretsy.com and their Healing through TragiCrafting 9/11 edition. And the sparkly 9/11 gif contests.

*deep breath* I have been a victim advocate for 10 years and I also happen to be in Colorado. The sex offender registry is imperfect, but this blurb of an article doesn't begin to adequately address the complexities of why. To clarify a few things: You won't find yourself on the sex offender registry in our state for…

Mmm hmm.

Yay! I now promise to delete The View from my DVR since today was Jenny McCarthy's first day, and going forward I will watch NewsHour on my lunch hour.

Damn good reason to send PBS a donation.

I love both of those brands so much! If it absolutely has to be a dress, it's going to be a simple cotton dress with adorable tights.

I'm thrilled, as the mom of a girl who insists on wearing only "girl" clothes but who I am also trying to steer away from t-shirts that say things like "Future Bride."

What I really want to know, though, is when this look is going to come back:

Meanwhile, I am kind of salivating at the thought of t-shirts that are more form-fitting and slimmer than the norm because my boy child is not even on the growth chart and dressing him in clothing that doesn't resemble a potato sack is an ongoing challenge.

My favorite T-shirt when Young One, was a young one said

Right on! Keep your kids involved with the passion and the car disease will transfer. I used to drop my daughter off at school in my Miata (sometime still with race livery in place). She learned to drive in that same Miata and swears by manual transmissions to this day. She has made us promise her the use of the…

Speaking of laundry. My grandfather, who was a Dry Cleaner by trade for about 40 years and a man who loved clothes gave me a couple of tips. One: only use cold water to wash and rinse. Hot water does not clean your clothes any cleaner, it just fades them faster. Also, you only need a cap of bleach (the small cap found…

Back in 2001, while my wife and 10-year-old son went on a professionally-guided tour of the big house, I took our six-year-old daughter on a dad-guided tour of the outbuildings. Never too young to start healthy cynicism.

"I'm not in California. I currently live in Dallas, Texas. Is that OK? "

When I was a kid, our next-door-neighbor was a lady trucker. She had been our school bus driver previously, but after she got divorced she wanted to really hit the road. She had a lot of Tina Turner t-shirts. That's not at all pertinent to the trucking part of the story, but a pleasant memory nonetheless.

Keep on…

"Change gear, change gear, change gear, check mirror, change gear, change gear, kill a prostitute, change gear..."

Detroit doesn't need any more "entrepreneurs" spewing meaningless bullshit marketing terms (is this what they're teaching MBAs these days? If so, God help us all). It doesn't need more consultants or (shudder) "think-then-do tanks." What it does need is a grocery store. Or preferably, a bunch of them. I know it's…