I am a member of the Collective Bias® (#CollectiveBias!) Social Fabric® Community. This shop for First Street products at Smart & Final (#ChooseSmart!) for the creation of healthy snacks for spring break has been compensated as part of a social shopper amplification for … [Read more...]
Wordless Wednesday: My Beastie Boy
He's totally thinking "I'll stir fry you in my wok." Or maybe just "I like my sugar with coffee and cream." … [Read more...]
Bon Jovi Cologne, $300, and YouTube
That is not the beginning, or even the punchline, of a funny (or even very bad) joke. It is a short list of some of the things I've been working on that haven't appeared on this site. "Man Smell" is an essay I wrote about my surprise and dismay when my first born son started … [Read more...]
Just Do It: Vegetable Garden
Okay, Agoura Hills. It's time. I'm going to take this gray, sad, lonely patch of dirt and turn it into a vegetable garden. Pros: growing my own vegetables! I am consuming a ton of vegetables now because I have changed my diet (long story, more on that some other time) and I … [Read more...]
Chinese New Year Wish
Brady came home from school with good news: "Great Grampa is going to be alive again, Mom!" For a moment I couldn't speak. I dropped everything and gave him my full attention. "What do you mean?" I asked him. "Oh," he said. "At school I got a wish, and I wished for Great … [Read more...]