Yeah, she’s wrong. About pretty much everything.  

And Container Store! It’s one of their biggest days of the year, according to them. And I’ve been there - it’s hella busy!

Ah... then fuhgeddaboutit... Thanks for the heads up.

It sounds like something from my son’s Dragonball Z game. I’m pretty relieved it’s not an actual designation of any sort.

Ha, excellent! Thank god the spirit of National Lampoon is still alive and unwell.

Now *there’s* a PIN number worth having!

Yeah, it was sort of self-help with a gizmo-twist: the beloved “e-meter” (two tin cans connected to a capacitance reader). It was enough to fool a dumbass 17-year-old in 1977!  :)

As a parent in NYC, I found that part of the problem is ya just gotta keep having your own life. You must keep going out (after the initial few months, of course), and keep doing your job, and pursuing your own creative and leisure pursuits, travel, the whole nine. It’s just a tad more difficult, is all. And yes,…

I was going to mention that one of my friends has 8 kids. And in fact, he’s the only one who works. And he’s a freelance musician! She has stayed at home and homeschooled most of the kids. What they told me? “It gets easier the more kids you have” I was skeptical, of course, but I saw it with mine own eyes: older kids…

Whew... I commend your work. Be careful, though. I was actually in Scientology about 40 years ago, a hapless teen sucked in by the fact that some of my musical heroes at the time were in it. I lasted two weeks, and it was scary even back then. There was harassment and intimidation of a fairly virulent type. I shudder…

Thanks for the well-written article!