Have you seen the commercial? J.C. Penny is selling teen clothes by appropriating famous scenes and dance moves from The Breakfast Club, to a cover version of Don’t You (Forget About Me). There’s nothing like a baaaaad cover version of…
Author: calm mama
blog, dammit
There seems to be some controversy over the word dammit and it’s hurting our new friend Maggie who just wants to earn a little ad revenue. We’d like to start a let-Maggie-run-blogher-ads write-in campaign, but don’t really know how to…
blog identity crisis
“That’s why you haven’t been posting as much lately,” Leila says when I tell her that I’m in the midst of. That’s one of the reasons. I mean, also, I’ve been ill. And insecure about my life choices. You know……
fabulous day on lakeshore with baby (minimal whining)
The whining is all me. I am sick. Sick, I tell you. Not in the head. But as in head cold. Sneeeeeeeezy, runnnnnnny nose, waaaaaaaatery eyes. It’s miseeeeerrrrrabbbble. Seriously. And my face is raw, sandpapered raw from tissues/toilet paper/napkins, the…
i’m sick (and news of baby’s firsts)
I don’t get sick very often. I was just going to say that, Scott said. My nose is running. I have chills. Is this what comes from being around so many people? Probably. I don’t get sick very often. I…
blogher 08: partial live blogging
The experience is still sinking in and I’m still trying to catch up on sleep as the two-day blog-love-fest was exhausting in itself, and the boy is doing a little night waking (eine kleine nacht…) again lately. What I have…
we’re bloghering
Or rather, we did last night, and we WILL be again, as soon as Jonah wakes up from his morning nap. Never wake a sleeping baby, even when you’ve paid $300 to attend a three-day conference (plus $50 extra for…
we’ve been sleeping
…among other things which have apparently kept us from blogging. I didn’t want to jinx it by talking about it — due to the curse of the web that takes away that which one joyfully boasts about on one’s blog…