While volunteering in my daughter's first grade class this morning, one of the boys - who was trying not to do his workbook - penciled an illustration on the cute bunny on his page. Peter Rabbit suddenly had a penis,......

I'm disturbed. The story of Phyllis Seidman, who was hit by a car only blocks from my house, haunts me. Maybe it's because the woman was wheel-chair bound due to MS. Maybe it's because my kids and I ride our bikes on the same streets. Maybe it's the flowers a couple people have left near the acciden...

About a decade ago, I was attending a community meeting where non-profit leaders, police officers and school officials gathered to talk about what to do about San Jose's growing gang problem.  Amidst all the positional leaders, stood one Filipina woman, Cora Tomalinas, who spoke eloquently on h...

Santa baby, I wanna yacht,And really that's not a lot,Been an angel all year,Santa baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight. Santa honey, there's one thing I really do need,The deed To a platinum mine,Santa honey, so hurry down the chimney tonight.-Eartha Kitt, "Santa Baby" My 5YO daughter ...

My husband is massaging Kosher salt into the glistening skin of a raw turkey. He's balancing it on our granite kitchen counter on what used to be the dead gobbler's head. It's the Sunday before Thanksgiving. He looks up at me and asks, "Are you nervous?" "Me? No, you mean the Turk-Off?" "Yeah, do yo...

Necessity may be accepted as the mother of invention, but I say Mothers are the mother of invention. For example, think of all the messes you've cleaned up without your trusty Mr. Clean Magic Eraser or without a paper towel or house rag. When I cleaned my car today, I found a used tampon under the d...

My six year old son, Guy-Guy, learned to read from the television. That's kinda white trash. I wish I could say he learned from his teacher or Sesame Street or ANY show on PBS, but it was lower than that. He learned to read the list of shows on our TiVo. Three years ago he was recognizing the words ...

When I opened the fridge this morning to assess the next couple of days of veggies and fruits, we were down to a couple of tomatoes, a pint of strawberries, a generous handful of cherries and a small basket of raspberries.  UGGH!  Thank goodness farmer's market is on Sunday. I love, love, ...

A woman handed me a giant bottle of wine at my doorstep the other night. I was panicked. The woman is the development director for Acterra, an environmental organization we love and support. Acterra does home energy audits, but that's not why this woman was at my door, she was delivering wine we'd w...

May 4, 2008. So, it has come to my attention that I need to stop apologizing and just do what I do and shut-up, or just blog.  I spend waaaay too much time apologizing for not posting, not writing well and not doing what I planned on doing.  I wish I could be more like my dog, Pixel - she ...