The Mother Lode

Out of some sort of morbid curiosity, I’ve been watching the two new E! reality shows — Living Lohan and Denise Richards: It’s Complicated. Both purport to be about “regular” women trying to raise normal families in today’s world. Dina Lohan has gone so far as to try and pass the show off as being [...]

Dance-Off

Here I am writing about more TV, but we’re in sweeps week — lots of finales and competitions winding down. Did you happen to catch the finale of “Dancing with the Stars” last night? I didn’t but I do watch it sporadically and know who most of the “stars” are. Apparently it was quite the [...]

Idol Daze

I’ll admit it. I do watch American Idol. It’s one of the few shows on television I can watch with my kids and make a family event out of. At the beginning, back in the days of Kelly Clarkson and Clay Aiken, we were HUGE fans and wouldn’t miss a beat. Around the 6th season [...]

Tomes for our (Kids’) Time

I’d say one of the few things I truly try to be consistent about doing with my kids is reading to them. Other things may fall through the cracks, but every night before bed I do everything I can to grab a book and read at least a little bit. They have very different tastes [...]

Brain Candy

I’m not going to mince words here — I am addicted to celebrity gossip. Embarrassing to admit, I know, but I can’t imagine a day without checking on Perez Hilton to see the latest happenings with Britney Spears (not as much lately) or “Brangelina.” Someone once called this thirst for junk, basically, candy for your [...]

Is It Over?

I’m really torn about this whole Hillary vs. Obama fight. Yesterday appears to have very nearly “sealed the deal” for Obama to be the Democratic candidate. The pundits are saying that it’s over for Hillary (“Pundits Declare the Race Over”) while she vows to fight on despite being out of money and mounting pressure from party [...]

Hey Jerry, look down here

I am far from a business analyst or stock market expert, but I’ve been following this whole Microsoft/Yahoo purchase with some interest. I have friends who either work at Yahoo or whose husbands do and I was kind of curious as to how the whole thing would play out.
I always thought it seemed like a [...]

Little Couch Potatoes

I guess as a parent you have no choice but to participate in a particularly painful rite of passage: that of enduring kids’ television shows. Painful at worst, passable at best, annoying little animated or puppet-like creatures fill up lots of space in the course of our TV viewing hours.
And, yes, I do let my [...]

Just a swipe away

According to an article in today’s New York Times, an uptick in lipstick sales could very well be a sign of the uncertain financial times to come. There are no hard and cold facts to support this, but according to such brands as Clinique and DuWop Cosmetics, lipstick is going to be big in the [...]

Is it really that easy to “Opt in”?

I read an interesting interview this morning on Salon.com with Amy Richards, author of a new book called “Opting In” – yet another take on the mommy debate. Ms. Richards calls herself a feminist, is the co-founder of the Third Wave Foundation and has written two other books. Her latest tome discusses the whole being [...]