Mama Drama: Respectful Independence
March 12, 2010 – 7:00 am | No Comment

Dear Mama Drama:
My eight-year-old son has recently become very rude and disrespectful. Every time I ask him to do something he argues with me. When I try to help him with something he becomes surly …

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Why I’d Rather Get Mauled by a Bear than Get a Bear at the Mall (theoretically)
February 19, 2008 – 12:08 am | 11 Comments

I was recently asked what I have against shopping malls. “What are you, some kind of commie?” “You have something against capitalism?!” “Don’t you know that malls are what make the world go round?!”
My …

In Search of Utopia
January 29, 2008 – 12:00 am | 6 Comments

Before moving to the great state of Colorado, I was living in the panhandle of Oklahoma, where a tornado warning was the local staple, where the majority of my customers were pig farmers; co-workers were …

Wait! I’m Not Weady Yet
January 8, 2008 – 12:05 am | 12 Comments

Rocky Raccoon runs ‘round the race track as the crowd ROARRRRS and CHEERRRRRS and reads recipes at recess.
No, I have not cashed in all my sanity chips. Not completely. The above phrase is just one …

You say idiosyncrazy, I say idiosyncrasy
December 20, 2007 – 12:00 am | 9 Comments

“You look crazy.” People used to say that a lot in my family. I think they feared appearing crazy almost as much as they feared appearing poor. When I was a kid, I had this …

On Rediscovering Christmas
December 6, 2007 – 12:32 am | 7 Comments

For me, Christmas has everything to do with Mexican food, and nothing to do with Walkmans.
For the first time in their lives, Emma and Kyra (three and two, respectively) played major roles in the tree-decorating …

Another One Bites the Dust
November 28, 2007 – 12:43 pm | 10 Comments

Kyra, my two-year-old, recently attended a day care where you were considered an over-the-hill parent at 25, where everyone (disabled or not) parked in the disabled parking spaces, left their Hummers humming, and allowed rappers …

The dilemma of the white lie
November 20, 2007 – 12:58 am | 7 Comments

Generally speaking, I’m all about honesty. Why has Mommy locked herself in the bathroom? It’s called food poisoning. And the door is locked because it’s possible your eyes would never fully recover upon witnessing what …