BAD Reads
The Blog In Review: 2005
To start off 2006, I've been looking at some of the blog entries I liked best, or that people really reacted to in 2005: Ten Reasons My Kids Think I'm A Mean Mommy Well, I am. And I hope someday they'll understand WHY! Enlighten the Gentiles First of a series in which I atttempt to explain Yiddish expressions and cultural oddities. In the first installment, why you should be very, VERY careful about using the word "schmuck" Jennifer Count Noticing the plethora of blogs written by people named Jennifer, I start keeping track of how many I can find. At my last revision, I was up to 100. Perhaps I'll get to 200 in 2006. Perhaps not............ Blogger I Won't Spare A Dime If you want to raise money for your kid's bat mitzvah or your cat's medical bills, there are a lot better ways to do it with dignity than by shilling on your blog. Standing in the street with a tin cup comes to mind Memorial Day JR and I pay our annual visit to a butterfly garden and find a stone that has a message for us all
Dear Ikea On kids and self-flushing toilets. I hope the guy who put this on an Ikea "fan" site read the WHOLE thing... On Mommy Blogs and Innocence Lost Perhaps there's a point to all that sugar sweet blogging. I just can't do it myself
Here Chick, Chick Chick A discussion with a patron about the term "chick lit" breeds an interesting discussion. When Good Tomatoes Turn Evil A tomato "with a difference" from my garden is a good excuse to "enlighten the gentiles" about the job of a mohel
Thoughts At the Ocean Our annual trip to the shore coincides with the horror of Hurricane Katrina
Motherhood and the Flag Subtitled "Patriotism is more than blind love"
If Life Is Sacred.... A cartoon about Terri Schiavo and Hurricane Katrina and some thoughts on values. Saturday Morning In Suburbia Where I wander into a consignment sale, and notice something STRANGE going on.... Toilet Training An article in the NY Times on a new fad among moms with wayyyy too much time on their hands. And I WILL post a second part of this entry this spring! Narnia Begins With "Lion" The books have been around for 50 years. So why, suddenly are the publishers tinkering with the book order
No, She Doesn't HAVE To See Harry Potter Half assed parenting strikes again, and all I can do is RANT! Christmas Bonus Time Again What FABULOUS present will we get from admin to acknowledge all the good work we've done this year. HINT: at least last year we could eat the candy that came in the dollar store mug they gave us! And last, but not least: Happy Holidays. All of Them. As the "conspiracy against Christmas" loons attempt to stir up their factions, I wonder if they have any idea what "their" holiday is all about.
