Happy Holidays! We've been home without internet access for nearly a week now (you'd think our vacationing neighbor would be thought...

Cheese Pumpkin Okay, it's as bad as it sounds: cheese pumpkin, like the name of a band that's just trying to be weird by putting two...

My Bodyguards I feel about you all the way I felt about my high school boyfriend, who used to lean over menacingly on the subway, all 90 pou...

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Another Reason Why I Love You So Much. Another in a Long Series of Reasons, That Is. Here I am, thinking I'm going to crack you up--tha...

Three of These Things Have Something in Common Can you guess what it is? Are there clues here , or here ? No. But maybe here .

Beavers Are Very Sad Animals Apparently. Because this is the expression Ben is making in every one of our Halloween pictures. Maybe it's...

Another in the series of non-posts I know that you guys don't actually have a spare second, what with your incessant brushing of your li...

Because I am grateful And also because, ahem, in all of your fabulous responses to my blog questions, very few of you mentioned "helpfu...

Whoa Nelly! So, um, holy frijoles! I askedeth and receivedeth. This is fantastic. Thank you. I probably have just about enough feedback at t...

Special Request Dear Ones, I''m not writing to ask you to go read this , if that's what you were thinking. I'm not even writ...

38 I want to pretend to complain about how I celebrated my birthday by washing a black marker with all our best clothes (true). Or about how...

Still Life with Link

I'm having, like, a totally sucky day Did you keep a journal when you were younger? Because I did, and let me tell you: these were not t...

You are the best. Honestly. I felt like my mom herself had logged on a couple dozen times--what with all the "She's just jealous...

I sure hope she finds me here! I'm really going to miss her. But not as much as I've missed Michael since his unexplained disappeara...

Bear with me, my friends. While I am entirely accustomed to expressing myself in an 800-word column (see, for example, my, ahem, newest colu...

I am sitting here trying to think about how to tell you things you already know. For instance, the way the fall plunges...

The Pimping Introduction Hello! Is that you? Did you find me here? I'm so glad! If you're coming from babycenter, then please know h...

High Camp Eating is my favorite part of car camping, and I can tell you that I did not feel this way when we were young...