Archive for September, 2007
Lessons learned from a month of single parenting
I’ve discussed this with a couple of moms this month and they agree: in some ways being a single parent is actually easier than dual parenting. For instance, any decision I make is final. There are no discussions with a spouse or overturned decisions and there are no sneaky appeals. I don’t have to compromise. [...]
On Monkeys
Daughter: Can I get a monkey?
Me: No.
Daughter: Why not?
Me: Monkeys are wild animals.
Daughter: But I could give them a banana and they’d come to me.
Me: But they’re still wild.
Daughter: Are there tame monkeys?
Me: I don’t think so.
Daughter: I wish the president would start a company that trained monkeys.
Me: Now that you mention it, that would [...]
Cheesetastrophe
After school on Thursday I tossed The Boy a hunk of cheese from the kitchen for a snack. At least, that’s what I’d intended to do. In hindsight, this was a poor judgment call. What I actually did was lob a cheesy grenade-like projectile of doom at him.
He missed. It hit him squarely in the [...]
Well is she a virgin or isn’t she?
Virgin marketing stupidly used some photos of a teenage girl from Flickr without getting model releases first and is now being sued. But, that aside, the interesting bit in this story is that her family is suing for libel because the ad—with the tagline “Free text virgin to virgin”—damaged their daughter’s reputation.
Her 27 year old [...]
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