Old School Posts

• Sizzling or Safe?

  This is a recurrent dilemma in life. In my life at least. And in yours too. You just might not know it yet. Friday again. Time is zooming by and our future home is taking shape. But to be perfectly honest (and I am all about perfect honesty even though I believe perfection and pure honesty ar

• Pee Time

  After a couple of heavier posts, I am in the mood to laugh. Are you? Yes? Good. What about peeing? Are you in the mood to do that too? Hope so. In general, I aim to be a lady on this blog. To that end, I do my best to avoid profanity, vulgarity, and discussion of bodily fluids. In this instan

• Your Change

  Midday. A young woman hurries into a deli. She scans the drink cases, hurls open a smudged glass door, and pulls out a Coke. Caffeine. To keep going. She waits behind a large man who has ordered a bagel with butter and a coffee light and talks ceaselessly about the weather. The woman digs into h

• The 29-Hour Raw Food Diet

  If I were visiting this blog and not its proud mama, I would read the title of this post and my heart rate would quicken and I would get a mini-surge of excitement. A 29-hour diet? I can do anything for 29-hours! I would begin to salivate for details and then I would begin reading... and then I woul

• Is Knowledge Always Power?

  Last week, I posted a letter to fellow mothers urging them to stop sharing their labor and delivery stories with pregnant women. This letter like my blog and like life was part serious and part silly. And it prompted a pair of insightful comments from loyal ILI readers. One of these comments came fr

• Five Years

  Five years ago today, I woke up in my childhood bed. A full-sized bed, decked in faded flowers. The bed on which I used to scatter my notes to study. The bed on which I used to sit with friends and gossip. The bed which I used to share with Sister C every Christmas Eve. You see, when I went off

• You Look Great Today

  No, really, you do. I just did something I don't do often enough: I gave a compliment. And, no, I'm not being insincere.  No, I can't see you, but I'm sure there is something about you -- your shirt, your casually-curled hair, your heirloom necklace, your taut Michelle Obama arms, your endear

• A Good Friday

  Once upon a time, I foolishly believed that with time came answers. That the years would pile up, one by one, and that I'd know more, understand more, have a clearer picture of self and world. Not so. Today is Good Friday. It is also a plain old good Friday. Because I am with my girls. Nan

• The ABC's of Insecurity

  So.  Here goes. My very first post as a rookie blogger.  And this post, like life, is one part serious and one part silly... We humans are insecure creatures.  To pretend otherwise is foolish.  And yet that is exactly what we do.  Everyday.  We pretend that we have it all together.  We wak

• Ha

  I just got a fortune that said: You would make a good lawyer.