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Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Pen Name Jane

Why Yes, I Am a Rocket Scientist

Here, let me fix your rocket with my toilet brush.

I am starting to believe house cleaning is as hard as rocket science. It’s just so easy for women to do, that we can’t comprehend how difficult it really is. Men, on the other hand, like to pretend they are above women’s work, or that they don’t care about any of it, masking their inability to grasp how all things domestic work. One time I asked my husband (since he was up and I was in the middle of dinner) if he would put the sheets in the dryer. “Sure,” he says.  Then he stood, staring at the washer and dryer, sort of pushing things around on the shelf above them. “I don’t see any sheets,” he finally said. “TAKE THE FLIPPING WET BED SHEETS FROM THE WASHER AND PUT THEM INTO THE FREAKING DRYER, YOU DUMMY,” I wanted to shout. But then I …

Colby

12:32 pm on Sunday, June 5, 2011

Chris I love it, I love all your articles. You hit every nail on the head with our modern day marriages and families. Your content is true and humerous. The headaches that come from our day to day lives you put in perspective and allow us to laugh at ourselves or our husbands or both and I want to thank you.   more ›

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Pen Name Jane

Polygamy Ain’t Lookin’ So Bad

A bittersweet goodbye to my beloved co-wife.

Ahhhh, polygamists: scary old white men marrying dozens and dozens of 13-year-old sisters or… Bin Laden. I’m starting to think we are brainwashed to believe polygamy is a creepy thing. (Not sure who is brainwashing us. Not men, I wouldn’t think, but who?) It has been practiced for millions of years and not just by sickos. I have the read the Bible, thank you very much, and quite a few of those revered guys had multiple wives. Still, my whole life it gave me the willies to even contemplate polygamy. Self-righteously, I’d declare, “I’d never share my man!” like sex is the only aspect to a polygamous relationship. Then I had kids. When my first child was born, my mother stayed with us for 10 days, cooking and cleaning, bringing me water …

Sandy

3:19 pm on Thursday, August 4, 2011

Hey! I live close to you in tarpon. Loved this piece, you are welcome to join my family. I would die if I didn't live on the same street as my family. I'm not the "homebody-can't-leave-the-nester", I just love this neighborhood. Safe, quiet, big yards and I already knew all the neighbors. My grandparents bought the house across from us after baby 1 was born so we have 3 generations in our "Greek …   more ›

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