Things Mom Said

The vibrating noise in our bathroom just sounded wrong. My mind, following a well-worn path, immediately went to calamity: It must be water pressure building in a pipe that could soon burst. I called my working-at-home husband. To avert emergency, he left his home office, walked across the hall, and opened the cabinet doors under the sink. Noting the buzzing was louder, he cleverly turned off the water valve. *Important background note: Between the two of us we can muster abo

Mostly I've only stared up at skyscrapers from ground level, mouth agape. But during this climb, I kept looking down, clenching my jaw...

I wasn't expecting the path to the bedroom would be paved with lies...

A confirmed consignment and thrift shopper, I am markdown motivated. Since it increases my heart rate, does it count as aerobic activity?...

I'm not a math person. But like it or not, it's all adding up.

Why I think working with contractors is often like dancing with a partner who doesn't really like to dance...

When you "dance like no one is watching", and yet they are.

My first child, with whom I likely made the most mistakes, since I had no idea what I was doing. Kinda' like making pancakes, because...

Everyone seated in the art studio had four red plastic cups of paint, one empty cup, and a blank canvas in front of them. And the action...

This post is also available for listening in the 2023 Listen to Your Mother multi-media collection. My mother made up a lot of rules for...

Our Account Director had invited her team to dinner at her Manhattan apartment. As one of the youngest and newest to the team, I was both...

It would have been an innocent indulgence. I was heading to TJ Maxx for a quick hit of retail therapy, on the way to the more honorable...

Peeking out from the maelstrom of the holidays, the New Year appears, 1-23. And I’m still finding small shards of the afterbirth of...

There is a good reason why a miniature, slightly broken nutcracker was traveling around with me in my car. I had planned to sell him, but...

As Thanksgiving comes into focus, again we begin gathering the necessities and niceties of an annual celebration that follows the...

It was my first time with nothing more than a mic, a story I was ready to tell, and a paid audience. I was onstage at Comedy @the Carlson...

Beware things that look simple – they can be hiding many layers of complication. Like packing. I admire people who can grab a couple...

I’m no scientist. Only a daily observer of the way things seem to be, at least for me. There's irony in it, as if the Universe is saying...

As far as I can tell, civilized society has evolved largely because of our agreement to separate that which is CLEAN from that which is...

Me on the outside. Accompanied by several voices on the inside. For me, being quiet on the outside usually means my attention has been...

Synchronicity. I believe in it. The universe causing things to happen or appear at a time when they are most meaningful. And yes, I've...

Ogilvy & Mather in NYC was the job I really wanted and was a big part of my WHY for moving to NYC from Walnut, NY. * I had been working...

One of my pet theories is that inanimate things can be sentient and can even make choices of their own. I mean if you accept that...

Scene: Lunchtime crowd on sunny day in NYC. On my lunch break, I was crossing 34th street on Fifth Avenue in a throng of people. A woman...

It might be a good idea to have parents go thru some kind of process for naming their kids. Like a name-vetting app: Type in the...

First borns can be a bit of a science experiment. Gazing at the newborn baby's face, the mind-blowing realization of "How did we even get...