Will write for yarn.
This is an open letter to teenagers. I know they won’t read it. And if they do, they probably won’t really get it for a while yet. But maybe if I put something incendiary in here, it will capture their attention just long enough to lodge in their brains and be remembered at some later [...]
My daughter got her driver’s license last week, which has made me feel kind of old, and kind of nostalgic. We bought her a 1995 VW Jetta from a friend of mine and just finished getting it road-ready, but she still can’t drive it since it’s a manual transmission.
But I can.
I took that car out [...]
“My name is Jennifer, and I’m addicted to comment threads.”
“Hi, Jennifer.”
It started innocently enough.
Or not.
Look, I’m a black hole of need, okay? If some brilliant person wants to throw down the gauntlet and have a little back and forth wordplay, I’m all over it. I live to be clever. I need the affirmation that my [...]
I got an unexpected call yesterday from a parent of one of my daughter’s friends. He didn’t realize he knew me at first, he was so absorbed in his purpose. It seems the city where I live has a zero tolerance drug policy in its schools, which means if a student commits a drug offense, [...]
There is this 25 random facts thing circulating on Facebook right now, and one of the things a friend wrote really resonated with me. She said she almost quit using the social networking site because it reminded her of her high school angst and it made her feel uneasy.
I’ve been sort of dealing with the [...]
The other day I had the distinct pleasure of being able to say the following words to my teenager with a straight face:
“You had a healthier emotional upbringing than that.”
The conversation started because her on again off again boyfriend is back, and the girl he dated in the interim is none too happy. She caused [...]
Since I’ve been so serious lately, I thought I might take a moment and provide some humor and some self-congratulations. Just when I thought I might be becoming too permissive a parent, I find something like this entry from Passive Agressive Notes, a milk-will-shoot-out-of-your-nose funny blog.
And then I think to myself – hey! At least [...]
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