Here is what I have found with awesome, natural, handmade, artist-supporting toys: I LOVE them—and I might as well keep them all to myself in my own toy box, because my kids will not play with them. This is not true of all children: some children love their handcrafted, renewable-resource, organic wood […]

In a perfect synchronized-swimming ballet of advertising effectiveness, I saw an ad for Lay’s new Cracker Crisps on Friday, and saw the Cracker Crisps themselves on Saturday. Purchase and smile and pirouette and flourish!
I opened the bag, and Paul and I nearly finished it off in one sitting. The crisps are smaller than […]

I saw this at Target and hesitated only a few seconds before buying it. I totally trust Oil of Olay, and I’d been wanting to try a fun new face product.
I tried it the next day in the shower and OMG I LOVE IT. You wet your face, and then put this stuff […]

Maybe you have already seen Jonniker and me practically keeling over and speaking in tongues in response to the new Suzanne Finnamore book Split: A Memoir of Divorce. We both PRE-ORDERED it, and I’m not even sure I’ve EVER pre-ordered a book before. I bought it in HARDCOVER and NOT FROM THE […]

I guess I shouldn’t say that EVERYBODY’S mother would like Agatha Christie books. Surely there must be literally DOZENS who wouldn’t.
What’s good about Agatha Christie mysteries is that they’re clever and satisfying without (usually) getting too gory or too scary. I myself prefer a good Jeffery Deaver (Twisted is great, or my favorite […]