From the Mamas: If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now, even if we don’t speak often, please post a comment with a COMPLETELY MADE UP AND FICTIONAL MEMORY OF YOU AND ME. It can be anything you want–good or bad–BUT IT HAS TO BE FAKE. When you’re finished, post… Continue reading Speak, memory
Author: Peony Moss
You know what Google needs to come up with?
Google earworms. Last night, my dear husband was watching a DVD about the Irish Brigade and some of the music got stuck in my head. All night long. Nothing like staring at the ceiling in the middle of the night with a melancholy fife-and-drum tune playing in your head, especially when you can’t remember the… Continue reading You know what Google needs to come up with?
Overheard at Peony’s place
Peony: Just to make it clear, we’re not getting a dog. But if we did get a dog, and we’re not, it’s going to be one of these dogs. (Shows husband the new Lands’ End catalog with the Boston Terrier on the front.) Posco: You want a dog with antlers? Peony: I don’t want a… Continue reading Overheard at Peony’s place
Under construction
yes, I’m messing with the template again. Question — I’m using the out-of-the-box “Squash” and “Sakura” stylesheets from Moveable Type. The background color is supposed to be visible as stripes down the side of the page, but I can’t see it in Firefox or IE6. Any suggestions?
A Fifth of November we’ll surely remember
via open book, an activity we simply MUST do next year: Why not get the baking enthusiasts in your family (i.e. the girls) to make a House of Parliament out of gingerbread? Find pictures of these exquisite gothic buildings on the Internet, and make the best copy you can, lovingly adding details with icing, perhaps… Continue reading A Fifth of November we’ll surely remember
Bratz: so why do you hate ’em?
Dale Price hates Bratz. Pansy and Peony hate Bratz. Even Rosey-Posey hates Bratz. In the interest of, let’s say, marketing research, what precisely do we hate about them? There are so many reasons, I know. Let’s list ’em all: the skanky clothes, the marketing to little girls, the whole it’s-all-about-the-mall concept…. But, you know, even… Continue reading Bratz: so why do you hate ’em?
Great
Would Hambet agree?
The Abortion Debate No One Wants to Have
From today’s Washington Post (of all places): The Abortion Debate No One Wants to Have If it’s unacceptable for William Bennett to link abortion even conversationally with a whole class of people (and, of course, it is), why then do we as a society view abortion as justified and unremarkable in the case of another… Continue reading The Abortion Debate No One Wants to Have