In 2005, Ayelet Waldman, wife of fellow author Michael Chabon, wrote an essay that went viral and received scathing vitriol when the mother of four declared that she felt her relationship with her husband was more than the relationship with her own children, adding that she felt she could move on after the death of [...]

Never before in modern history has the food police wielded so much power and control over what we eat, how we eat and when we eat. It’s bad enough that childrens nutrition issues have plagued the ‘mommy wars’ over the last few decades, foisting superiority and self righteousness upon those poor peasants who buy peas, [...]

Okay, so not the world’s most original post — since I’ve never written a post like it before, preferring instead to bitch about it to my husband whose typical response is, “Oh, I know!” I’m goin’ for it. So, here it is. The top seven most annoying phrases that silly moms say which I can [...]

If you want to be a good mom, you should probably elect NOT to kill your children. Ever. Kidding aside, it seems far too often I read stories about mothers murdering their children in cold blood and out of the blue, some asshole comes out and inevitably says, “I’m so shocked. She was such a [...]

While most can probably agree, the scraps of beef, less than desirable by most human standards (unless you’re the USDA)  is pretty damn gross. It’s hard to defend anything so neon in color and so gooey in consistency. But if you take away the emotional trauma and resentment, the most important question is — is [...]

Truthfully, I don’t know a lot about Andrew Breitbart. I know he was a political activist, a comedian and a pundit who died last week at the young age of 43. I know he left behind a wife and four young children. I know he was controversial and polarizing and had plenty of enemies. I [...]

It is difficult to comprehend why some children go so off course, committing felonies before they’ve even grown pubic hair. While some children seem predestined to become bad seeds, perhaps they were born with a mental illness woefully misunderstood by our society. If an adult shows odd and destructive behavior, we isolate them or get [...]

For those of you with kids going into high school, it’s the time when students typically take a foreign language. For most schools, it’s a requirement. But some teens and tweens are already speaking their own foreign language, the tongue of Internet geeks and their viral catch phrases and “rage comics.” I can hear you [...]