TweetOver the past few days, there’s been this vortex of horrible. Dina Lohan was on the Today Show, defending her parenting and her daughter. Paris Hilton got arrested and took a mug shot that looks better than most people’s wedding pictures. And the New Jersey housewives reunited, four grown women who act like botoxed six-year… Continue reading »
Jul
23
City v. Suburbs: Part One
TweetMy friend, Lisa, wrote a blog post about why she didn’t go to Taste of Chicago this year. It’s on the new blogger community, The Chicago Moms, right here. Her primary reason — aside from the heat, mediocre food, crowds and pale, large people who feel compelled to spill, shirtless, over their jean shorts and… Continue reading »
Jul
20
Raising a Geek
TweetOver the weekend, I read a story in the New York Times about these Brooklyn kids who go to a summer camp based on a book. Camp Half-Blood, as it’s called, is based on the Percy Jackson series in which young Percy finds out that he is half Greek-god. (That Zeus. Such a wolf.) So… Continue reading »


