The Place to Take a Humor Break
Tajikistani Appetizer NON (Flat Bread) INGREDIENTS 2¼ cups flour (2 more tablespoons later) ¾ teaspoon salt ¾ teaspoon sugar 2¼ teaspoons yeast ½ cup water ½ cup plain yogurt 2 tablespoons vegetable oil (1⅔ tablespoons […]
It’s night. Good Guy is fast asleep in bed, unshakable. Outside, Bad Guy is armed, dangerous. He breaks into Good Guy’s house. If only Good Guy could hear Bad Guy down the hall, he could […]
Are you a supermarket dick? Do you make other shoppers’ time in the store miserable? Take this test and find out. Do you: 1) Block the aisle with your cart? (2 points) 2) Still leave […]
(From a four year old preschooler, explaining why she needed to wear a “bra” (bathing suit top) under her shirt) “I need it so I can have big boobies like Miss Michelle.” (From a six […]
For fun, my 10-year-old son decided to play a Wii Sports video game. He kept losing. Where’s the fun in that? The kid doesn’t even know how to use the controls. He just hits buttons, […]
Sports—my 11-year-old son never really got into any of them. Until this year. When he was younger, he played soccer and tried karate, and he would’ve been good at both if it wasn’t for the […]
Dear Lord, please remind me to be more specific when my children asked me what I want for Mother’s Day. I said I simply wanted a flower from each of them. I guess I got […]
Today we are thrilled to excerpt a chapter from I Didn’t Know You Could Make Birthday Cake From Scratch: Parental Blunders from Cradle to Empty Nest by Dorothy Rosby. With Mother’s Day approaching, this is […]
For the first time since 1989, I’m playing the dating game. I haven’t really been in the mood to shave my legs, so I was in no hurry to jump back in after the divorce. […]
Finally, a book about raising kids that makes no attempt to help us. The author, Tim Jones, repeatedly tells us he has no answers. I find that enormously reassuring. I’m not the reason my kids […]