Skyperactive Divas
This week on ADHDivas… Lisa’s leavin’ on a jet plane… don’t know when she’ll be back again… oh babe, she hates to go… Not really… She’s off to sunny LA where she is one […]
Author: Lisa K. Nelson
Sitcom writer (Ellen, Suddenly Susan, Everybody Loves Raymond) who quit to raise three kids (initially adorable, currently insolent). Flight risk. Turn-ons: The Green Bay Packers, Bob Newhart, real butter. Turn-offs: Myself in the vanity mirror in broad daylight (Why do I keep looking?).
Also the hyper half of ADHDivas -- coping, commiseration and comedy for parents of ADHD kids.
Bad Mom/Good Writer
So, my 9th-grade son got in trouble for looking up Arab jokes on-line in Language Arts class. I’m not sure how I should feel about myself in that I wasn’t angry about the racist implications […]
Old Med Sales, Used Band-Aids and More Joys of ADHD Parenting
This week on ADHDivas…. Lisa professes her love for the Green Bay Packers… and her hatred for AOL… We’re still trying to figure out which medications will work best for our […]
We are not dead… just hanging with them…
This week on ADHDivas…. Lisa is on tour as she heads to several different wakes and funerals… and shares with us the perfect thing to say to the bereaved… (On a side note, […]
My Son Does Nothing “Nice and Easy”…
Thia week on ADHDivas…… Lisa tells us about her fun day at the beach…… We find out that her oldest son is not unlike Tina Turner….. We talk about Painted Ladies……no, […]
School’s Out for Summer…
This week on ADHDivas….. School has wrapped up for the year, and well… there’s always next year! Were there A’s in May? Did Lisa’s son graduate? Will those missing assignments ever turn up? Lisa […]
Time sucks, lesbian Norman Rockwell, dancing janitors and other non-sequiturs…
This week on ADHDivas… How can we help our kids remember stuff? And more importantly… How can we help ourselves remember stuff? Somewhere there’s a dancing janitor wearing a red bow […]
“Please scoot down a bit,” demanded the robot
I recently heard about new advances in robotic gynecologic surgery. Just what I’ve always longed for in the stirrups: more cold, hard metal probing by ambivalent, unfeeling doctors. On the other hand, they might be […]
Divas go outside the box…
podcast-18 This week on ADHDivas… Wendy found a therapist… does she like him? Does he like her? Lisa had an interesting trip to her son’s therapist… she also rants about uninteresting responses to her […]