Monday, December 12, 2011
My father is complaining. Pie and I have, apparently, ruined Christmas. The meaning is gone. According to my father, we have taken the Christ out of Christmas. Um, I would like to remind all my readers that my father is an atheist. A Jewish atheist. The crime? Last year, for Pie’s Daisy troop, our family [...]
Who filled my house with a swimming pool? At least, that’s what I assumed happened. Because I feel like I’m trying to walk through water. Slow. Sluggish. Not moving very fast. Time is crawling. My revision doesn’t seem to be revising itself. Those who follow me on Twitter or Facebook already know that my weekend [...]
Thursday, October 21, 2010
People have asked me, “Why are you in therapy? You’re so together!” This morning I noticed a status update from my mom on Facebook. It read: “Carol K. Brown Anybody in the Miami area have a rifle (unloaded) or toy that looks like a real rifle that I could borrow for something I want to [...]
Imagining a parent as a child is hard to do. My parents were pretty young when I was born–22 for my mom; 27 for my dad. But they always seemed old to me. I was recently watching with my kids a video from 1974 and it’s shocking that my parents were actually, truly young. In [...]
Saturday, February 20, 2010
We made it back. All in one piece. Oh, you didn’t know we were gone? Disney World! I have to say, it was a really great Disney adventure, and I was truly sorry to come back. I think that Disney is one of those places where you either go as a stick-in-the mud “I hate [...]
Many of you know that my father is, proudly, from New Jersey. Don’t go teasin’ with any of that “What exit are you?” He’ll have none of that. But you may not know that my mother is an actual Southerner. I don’t mean Miami Beach. Plenty of people have asked me what it’s like to [...]
Growing up, my father played Quiz Questions at dinner with me and my sister, although the game quickly became known as “Quiz Questions Me First!” because that’s what we’d shout out as soon as he sat down. The questions would be current events or history or science or whatever, such as “Who discovered the theory [...]
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Once upon a time, or so the story goes, because I have a horrific memory and this is my dad’s story that I’m relating… Anyway, once upon a time, my mom cooked us all breakfast. According to my father, they were fabulous breakfasts. Some days it was scrambled eggs. Some days it was French toast. [...]
Monday, November 17, 2008
Did you guys know that there’s a show called Paris Hilton: My New BFF, and I haven’t been watching it! What has my life turned into? But that’s not what I came here for. This past weekend I headed down to Miami for a weekend without my children. It was a novel event. Although, little [...]
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
I so clearly remember the absolute horror I felt when my father described to me his childhood. What do you mean you didn’t have color TVs? How do you listen to a show on the radio? No tape players? How did your grandmother do the laundry? How much did the movies cost? You couldn’t have [...]