The Voice Which is like a cross between Miss Long Island reading her shopping list and a goose honking by frantically after the rest of the ...

Allergy Relief does not seem to be obtained from rogue biofeedback. Ever since Michael completed his massage program, I treat him like an al...

The Annual Mother's Day Pimp-My-Book Post I am writing the annual pimp-my-book post to say that this might make a nice mother's day ...

Rock-a-bye I had this idea for a post that I was going to call "shame" and it was going to be a photograph of the snow pants Ben ...

P.S. The whole reason I wrote today was to check in with you about the shootings yesterday, but then I wrote something weird and deleted it ...

My Thyroid Has Great Self Esteem, Thanks to You Here's why I love you: when I post a paranoid column about my hypochondria and psychosom...

I Wish I'd Thought to switch my kids' underpants with their dad's! Boy would that have killed them. It makes me laugh just to th...

April 1, 2007 Ben's first telephone conversation with a peer (on speakerphone): Friend: Hi Ben. Ben: Hi. [crickets chirping] F: Do you h...

More Meta Commentary Things I truly appreciate: The idea that we're cycling together (We're in love! Plus, I get to picture us all o...

Edited The funny thing is that I had actually written "I" about drinking that wine--but then became self conscious about the lonel...

Talking About the Weather I don't know what it is with me--maybe it's all the gigondas wine we drank with dinner that had such a gi...

Warts and All Thank you, as always, for your advice. I wrapped a banana peel around my heel, strapped a potato to it with duct tape, scraped...

Glad to Be You Of course you don't have two warts on your foot in the first place because lovely, kempt people don't have warts is w...

Wabbit Season Hey, for a great debate on cartoons check out the comments going on over at wondertime. Oh, I do love a great debate. But hol...

Why You Might Not Want Your Preschooler to Make Her Valentines Out of Mexican Bingo Cards Why not, right? I mean, they're so beautiful a...

Nothing Makes Me Feel More Like My Own Grandma than when one of my kids complains of a stomach ache and I hear myself say, "Maybe you n...

The YouTube Video I want to make would be of me hunched in front of a YouTube video of the hands of a lady crocheting. And I'd be castin...

Pottery Barn Catalogue I hadn't planned to mention this, but arriving here today I realize that while so many of your blogs are so styli...

Time of Wonder Happy New Year, dear friends! I wanted to post a quick link to this column at wondertime, and to draw your attention to a co...

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