Tag: Parenting
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Reasons You Would Have Found Me Crying Lately
1. I’m watching the Beyonce documentary. 2. It’s 3:30 in the morning and I’m on my third shirt because I’ll never not be covered in someone else’s body fluids ever again. 3. Decaf is bullshit. 4. It’s pretty outside and I am inside. 5. There’s this documentary about happiness but at one point there’s a…
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Your Parents Will Never Wish You This Life
Your post “The Magical Vulva of Opportunity” really struck a chord with me because between parents encouraging me to “go back to school and became a professional naval-gazer in a safe environment like a college campus” and the snippets I hear every day about struggling, unhappy TV writers, I’m starting to wonder if I’m setting myself…
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Activating Niya: One More Time
Niya’s back by popular demand! Shot just before the season wrapped (before Eyesplosion ’09), Niya let me know she still had something to say about stay-at-home mothers. Watch me grow increasingly uncomfortable until I’m reduced to just stuttering. Also: secret babies, and other horrible nightmares. (Watch it in High Quality. And there’s a little bit…
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Chris Rock Makes Dads Better
This coffee shop has large, black structural poles throughout. There’s one just behind me, from floor to ceiling, between my booth and the counter. A man just walked past me, holding the hand of his tiny daughter, who was probably just under two years old. “Stay off the pole, honey,” he said to her, pulling…
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regulating
I don’t think I can accurately describe how much cat puke I just picked up. It’s one in the morning. I’m currently staring at Taylor, watching him drink water, waiting to make sure he’s not about to go into some kind of seizure. At my last job there were many new parents, the kind who…
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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…