Happy Mama’s Day!
MAMA LIFE | Happy Mama’s Day! This bullshit holiday has wormed into my black and shrivelled heart. Good lord, I am such a SUCKER. Like, I never thought I’d be the sort of person who ...
Look Alive Out There, review
BOOKS | New collection of essays by Sloane Crosley is good, but Look Alive Out There still irks me | Macmillan. I don’t think I’m a particularly good judge of Sloane Crosley’s ...
The hardest part (teeth dreams)
ESSAY | There is a dream I have sometimes, where all my teeth fall out. In various iterations of this dream, whole molars loosen and drop like a surprise into the space of my mouth, or an ...
Smeetchy at the Movies: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (TV special)
MOVIE | Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer toddler review. Look, the 1964 Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer TV special is batshit. There’s no other way to put it. It’s whackadoodle. ...
Little ol me, Pushcart Prize nominee
NEWS | Welp! This is a surprise. The very kind and wonderful folks over at Dead Housekeeping (who published my little flash memoir piece about my grandmother back in May), have nominated that ...
This is two
BLOG | Smeetchy turns two. It’s hard to believe, hard to accept, hard to comprehend. Back in the summer I know I said that the last ten years have fairly raced by, and that is true, but it ...
Smeetchy at the Movies: SING!
MOVIES | Sing! toddler review. I really didn’t like Sing! I mean, I could have liked it, maybe, if I hadn’t been trying to watch it with a squirmy baby-toddler-creature who had ...
Smeetchy at the Movies: The Secret Life of Pets
MOVIES | The Secret Life of Pets toddler review. Why do small children have such horrific taste? Last month, I had so much hope. My child (now 22 months) had seen her first film, Finding ...
Then and now and then again
BLOG | For the past few weeks, I’ve been thinking about blogging – trying to blog – about the past 10 years. That’s probably why it’s hasn’t really been working. How do ...
Smeetchy at the Movies: Finding Dory
MOVIES | Finding Dory toddler review. Well, it appears I haven’t had enough to do. Or rather, I’ve had way too much to do, so I decided to panic/procrastinate/put my head in the sand ...
How to decorate (for Dead Housekeeping)
FLASH MEMOIR | How to decorate. She never shies from an overblown chintz, an acid green, lattice over leaves on the lanai. Too much, she says, is often just right. “Take a page ...
Review of Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977-2002)
BOOKS | Review of Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977-2002) | David Sedaris | Little Brown. It took me a very long time to get through this book. That’s not a criticism. For a couple of weeks, ...