Sept 2012 – 1st Day of Kindergarten (really Aug)
Help! I’m freaking out because my only (human) child has finished his Kindergarten year! The quote “the days are long but the years are short” definitely […]
Today’s Sounds of Saturday is the brilliant Oingo Boingo with “Dead Man’s Party”. I’m a little embarrassed that I haven’t yet featured Oingo Boingo on this series yet. I had two fish in college, Oingo and Boingo – no joke.
Danny Elfman’s been a little busy scoring films since […]
Image: Loving Earth
While this is the day to remember the veterans who serve our country, I ask you to remember those affected by the many tragedies that seem to have befallen in the United States […]
In honor of reviewing and buying the hard copy of the MTV book, VJ: The Unplugged Adventures of MTV’s First Wave, today’s Sounds of Saturday is one of the lesser known Modern English songs, “Ink And Paper”.
It’s a great song but the video does […]
As part of my commitment to 13 goals in 2013, I have been doing random acts of kindness inspired by the awful tragedy at the school in Sandy Hook, CT. I have given out $5 gift cards to Target, Starbucks and Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf […]
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Mother’s Day is one of the scariest days of the year to me. It shines a humongous spotlight on what kind of responsibility it is to raise a child. It is also a reminder that Mother’s Day is really a one-sided holiday for me.
Like countless other people, I had less than an ideal childhood. I was a child of contentiously divorced parents who lived on opposite ends of the country. I was was shuttled back and forth during summers and holidays originally because my parents were sharing custody of their children but later because my mother has paranoid schizophrenia. […]