Pamela Ribon

Tag: Baby

  • Why Moms Are Here

    People like to say, “I bet your mom is so excited to be a grandmother. What did she do when she found out you were having a baby?” “Oh. She immediately put her house on the market.” And they laugh. They laugh and laugh. “That would be so funny,” they chuckle. I don’t say anything.…

  • And Now We Have This Baby… (What Day Is It?)

    And Now We Have This Baby… (What Day Is It?)

    So far life with a newborn is– hang on. …

  • I Am a Watched Pot

    “WHERE IS BABY?” This is the text I get, several times a day now, from all over the country. Sometimes it pops up on a Facebook window. Sometimes it’s just a subject line of an empty email. “WHERE IS BABY?” As if I’ve hidden the child somewhere, confused Christmas for Easter and hidden this ripened…

  • You Should Be

    How’s everybody enjoying their holiday season? Already had a few teary fights and regrets? Having a lot of life-altering meditations and heart-to-hearts? Thinking about your life and what has happened to it? Determined to be able to see your feet again by this time next year? I hear ya, friend. I lift my non-alcoholic beer…

  • Fightin’ Words

    I’m going to tell you about the time a lightbulb almost destroyed my relationship, but I can’t do it without a little backstory. For better or worse, one thing that Jason and I have in common is that we both really like to be right. We can get kind of jerky about it, which means…

  • Everything Is Different Now

    Jason and I have been in talks to start a family for some time now. I say “in talks” because I find it to be along the lines of countries negotiating, as one nation will have to take on a serious — albeit short-term — obligation that could potentially affect that country’s GNP for some…

  • My Brain is a Jerk.

    I’ve mentioned before how my dreams are annoyingly literal. I rarely have to spend any time pondering, “I wonder what that meant.” Yes, even REMpam is a Wonder Killer. How literal? Well, to be extremely graphic, I once had a dream in college where a notoriously tough professor was butt-raping me in front of the…

  • Elvis Costello: Spike

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  • king cake

    There’s a King Cake in the breakroom because one of the pretty girls who works here is from New Orleans. She sent a message warning people about the plastic baby inside the food, and suddenly I remembered the song we used to sing in high school theatre about King Cake:

  • Virtual Book Tour: Devil in the Details: Scenes From an Obsessive Girlhood, by Jennifer Traig

    Virtual Book Tour: Devil in the Details: Scenes From an Obsessive Girlhood, by Jennifer Traig

    pamie.com is thrilled to be a part of Virtual Book Tour once again. This time it’s Jennifer Traig’s hilarious Devil in the Details : Scenes From an Obsessive Girlhood. She promises me that the copy of the book I received had a binding issue, and wasn’t intentionally off-center by one centimeter. The three borderline obsessive-compulsives…