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All The Halloween-y Snack Ideas You Could Possibly Want

Forgive me, please…because you’re about to be hit with an avalanche of Halloween-related content. Honestly, though, I feel 100% entitled to milk my son’s Halloween-themed birthday party for every single last itty-bitty drop of content, because over the years, truly: I have DESTROYED these events.

Like, KILLED THEM DEAD.

(You know: ifIdosaysomyself.)

Remember when I had that epiphany that I should just do Safeway cupcakes and pizza for birthday parties and call it a day so I could actually enjoy...

The Dana Effect

cats and computers and to-do lists, oh my

When I (briefly and despondently, with much associated whining and entitlement) worked as a law firm HR manager, my predecessor was an absolutely wonderful woman named Dana. Dana was born to be a law firm HR manager, and I mean that in the best way: She ran the firm with an iron fist while also being a substitute therapist/best friend/mother for any employee having a bad day. I had known her since I was very little – my mom was a partner at the f...

How to Make a Sunlife “Bliss Bowl” Dupe

I expect to get told by the overlords at Sunlife – the ultra-fancy SoCal smoothie-and-bowl mini-chain – to take this down, because trust: I have gone hunting for this recipe online, and no cigar, so I have to assume there’s a reason for that and the reason is Litigation.

But maybe not? It’s worth a shot to get this recipe up for you, because putting aside the unconscionable price of virtually everything at Sunlife (where bowls run from $19.75 up to $47.50 for the Billion Dollar Bowl), it...

Rainbow Fish

“Rainbow Fish,” 2018, by me

I just realized I forgot to sign up my daughter for aerial silks classes. This isn’t something I forgot from, like, last week…it’s something I’ve forgotten since she was five. Every once in awhile she’s reminded me, but first we were moving and then there was Covid and then there was more moving and then it felt too expensive and then I couldn’t find a time that worked and then we changed our custody schedule around and it fell off my radar, and…

Now I am si...

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I consider myself a capable person; always have. I can swap out a light fixture; micromanage three separate schedules; make a passable dinner out of whatever detritus is in the back of the refrigerator. But single motherhood will take all that capableness and say HOLD MY BEER. (So will life in general, small humans or no. This “being an adult” thing is vastly overrated.)

That said, I also identify as a Disaster. I was definitely born to blog; things go amiss for m...

Links & Love & Stuff

These, all fall. I already have an appointment. (31 Fall Nail Designs That Will Excite You For Cooler Weather, via Vogue.)

Nice dupe for the Stuart Weitzman Nudist sandals that I’ve coveted for eons.

Actually enjoying making these segments lately. It’s a Kamala miracle!

If you’re looking for what to read next: This. Immediately. (Fantastic review in The Atlantic here.)

I stopped using lash extensions a year or so ago because I (finally) realized they made me look sorta crazy. And...

The Late-Summer/Early Autumn Momiform: An Evolution

Those [pantsless] days are gonnnnne…

I got rid of my super-short shorts. (Well, okay, by “get rid of” I mean “put in the back of my drawer.”) It was time. I’m not in the “once you hit a certain age you can’t wear x y and z” kinda person, but when you can see actual buttock, it’s maybe a size-up moment. No shame!

And truly, even the not-so-eagle-eyed among you have possibly observed that I’ve owned and worn the same handful of pairs of cutoff shorts for a decade, at least. (This is mi...

For Your Coffee Replacement Consideration: Cacao, Honey & Cream

I no longer really drink coffee.

Weird, I know. Because I used to need it…and now even the thought of it makes me a little nauseated. Now, I’m not one who believes that quitting coffee is a mark of virtue – as vices go, caffeine isn’t one that even registers on my personal scale. I didn’t even want to stop drinking it. I just woke up one day with different body chemistry, and there you go.

During the summer months I developed some very poor bed-rotting habits (all three of us like to ...

The Calm Box

My daughter’s tantrums have set the stage for some of my favorite moments in life. Stay with me, here.

The girl has always had a set of lungs on her. And from the time she was old enough to understand the words “go to your room,” she understood the truly awesome power of simply not doing a thing that a person is telling you to do. So I’d pick her up and plop her in her room, except there was no lock on her door, so then I’d spend the next however long literally leaning my full body weigh...

The DIY Cat Run Experiment (Or: I Invented A Thing?)

No. Bad. Go inside.

OK, right off the top: I definitely didn’t invent this thing. My cousin did; I discovered it while visiting her in Canada last week. But I also doubt that she invented this, because it’s not all that difficult or (sorry, Carrie) brilliant of an idea. It only feels like I/she invented this because when I google “cat run” all I see are “catios” – which I do enjoy looking at and fantasizing about owning…but which are, to be clear, very different entities (with the latter ...