To all the mothers of the world: new moms with still steaming babes, old moms with wrinkled children, moms with secrets, sleepless with worry moms, reluctant moms, moms to everybody’s kids from the block, moms with loss, my mom, my sister who is the best mom, and all the moms we remember today — thank … Continue reading »
Penney For Your Thoughts?
Anybody catch JCPenney’s new commercial asking you to “come back?” If you are reading this blog from anywhere in the continental US the chances are good that your closest department store is a JCPenney. I’m also going to make the assumption that if you are reading these words you also have some sense of Apple … Continue reading »
The Balm Upon My Palm
This is a shameless plug for a hero product necessary to anybody with either hands or udders. Truth be told, this is not the post I’ve been fiddling around with for the last two weeks. Rather, I was inspired on the fly as I was scrubbing the down the shower with my unique spray mix … Continue reading »
When The Hoax’s On You
We don’t usually talk ethics over at Can I Take A Nap?, but I’m curious what other Nappers would do in this situation. I have a lovely co-worker whose daughter is studying to become a nurse. The daughter has a “friend” undergoing chemotherapy and is recycling all the opaque caps from plastic water bottles as … Continue reading »
Happy Passover
Although it’s cold, rainy and/or snowy today, it is still Passover. If you can’t read the Haggadah with the ones you love, hugga the ones you’re with. Zissen Pesach, my friends.
Food Control
Food addiction seems like a weird concept, doesn’t it? Humans have to eat to put energy into our body machines, and no amount of evolution has changed this simple fact. Now we conspiracy theorists can put this into our Cuisinarts and press pulse… The agro-industrial complex has been working us over for the last 40 … Continue reading »
Victim of My Own Happiness
This was a good weekend. Even though we lost an hour of sleep to Daylight Saving Time (a weird concept in our 24/7/365 culture) I more than made up the hour in laughter courtesy of my progeny. Both of them were home this weekend, an event that hasn’t occurred since January. Having my girls around … Continue reading »
Working It: The Internship Has Sailed
All work has value, but I’ve noticed over the last two weeks a lot of chatter about it. 1. Discussion about raising the national minimum wage to $9.00/hour, which we can argue will both help some people and hurt some people. But then, if a person is working over forty hours a week, shouldn’t he … Continue reading »
A Tribute to Erma Bombeck 2/21/27 — 4/22/96
Insanity is hereditary. You can catch it from your kids.” “My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first one being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.” “There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.” “Mothers-in-law who wear a black armband to … Continue reading »
Type O! I’m Positively Negative.
I gave blood today for the first time in over a year. Seems having cancer (specifically not a blood cancer) does not disqualify you from donation once your treatment has been completed. And nothing makes me feel better than dropping a pint of sweet O-. Everybody at the drive makes you feel like such a … Continue reading »
