That’s what a kid told Good Morning America co-anchor, Michael Strahan, a few days ago when he talked to a group of 4th graders about election issues and rhetoric. If you are one of the gazillion people who have worried about how the meanest, most revolting and disgusting Presidential campaign season in U.S. history would […]
Category: Mom About the Burgh
Me, the Man, and the Bear
I climbed into the attic a few days ago, looking for an old photograph. I know it exists. It’s up there somewhere, but I couldn’t find it. I’m glad. I don’t really want to see it again. Thirty-nine years ago, I was a foreign student in Turkey. I was living with a Turkish family and […]
We Have Nothing to Fear but Fear of a Locker Room Itself
I have always been terrified of snakes, bees and stepping on snails with bare feet. Like many people, I also avoid things like dark alleys, horror movies and clowns. However, in the last few days, I have developed a new fear: locker rooms. I never before considered that I should be afraid of locker rooms. […]
Knock It Off and Get To Class
Recently I was walking on the Three Rivers Heritage Trail one weekday morning. It was 8AM and I knew school had already started because I had just passed a group of kids wearing gym clothes. They were following a man, who I assumed to be a P.E. teacher because he had a whistle on a […]
Donald Trump’s Parent-Teacher Conference
Mr. and Mrs. Trump, thank you for coming here today to talk about Donald. You know, kindergarten can be a scary place, but I have to say that Donald is a bright boy and very confident in himself. He’s so adorable when he tells the other children that he has a “good brain.” He loves […]
Awkward! What People Do When They See A Middle-Aged Lady With a Black Eye
I have a black eye. Yeah, I didn’t want to talk about it because I didn’t want to admit that I got it by walking into a wall at 5:00AM on Tuesday morning. It’s pretty ugly. Or as my brother said when he I texted a photo to him: “Holy crap!!” I wasn’t going to […]
Fat, It’s Your Fault (the Sugar Industry Said)
Okay, let me get this straight. According to the New York Times article I just read, in the 1960s, the Sugar Research Foundation paid three Harvard scientists to minimize the link between sugar and heart disease and to blame fat instead. Their whitewashed findings were published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine, which […]
How To Pull Together an Unplanned and Spontaneous Pool Party for a Young Couple With Three Small Children
Over Labor Day weekend, my husband asked if he could reach out to some of his colleagues with kids to invite them over. “The pool needs to get used,” he said. “Sure,” I replied, wondering why the 100 laps I swam the day before didn’t count as pool use? Ahem! Anyway, it was late notice […]
You’ll Be So Glad We Told You
Whoever said that birth is the “miracle of life” never had kids because after those bundles of joy pop out of your lady parts, the real miracle is raising them to be civilized members of potty-trained society. As a dreamy adolescent, I believed that someday I would be a great mother. The basis for this […]
Our Cancer-Fighting Fundraising Adventure – Biking 335 Miles from Washington DC to Pittsburgh
The first and most important thing about our bike trip from Washington DC to Pittsburgh is that Team Do-Gooders Doing Good raised $6,000 for the South Hills Relay for Life. Woo hoo! Thank you to everyone who supported our ride and generously donated to the American Cancer Society’s life-saving mission. We started at Mile […]