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  • My Summer Camp: Bring a sponge

    I spent a recent afternoon searching out new and exciting things for my girls to do this summer, something to supplement their music and drama camps. And the options for teens are endless - how are they going to choose between the LMAO Facebook Status Update workshop and the Cute Boy symposium? That

  • User post: This is just nuts

    I have a confession to make. No, it's not about my reptile feet. I hope you're sitting down for this one.I just tried Nutella for the first time last year. What.

  • Bathtubs

    Lately whenever we're watching TV with my daughters the 12-year-old will occasionally yell out "OMIGOD BATHTUBS!" meaning she's just seen someone over the age of 23 engaging in some sort of romantic interlude. The term 'bathtubs' came about after the first time the girls saw a Cialis commercial and

  • User Post: Hairy

    I was at a wedding shower luncheon recently and as usual when a bunch of women are gathered, the talk turned to underarm hair. How to get rid of it, how much we hate it, who invented it - like clockwork, right after salad and right before the main course we discussed these pressing issues. Then, one

  • Like A (50-Year-Old) Virgin

    As a few of you know, last month I turned fifty. Notice how I spelled that out, because it's a little less painful than seeing the numbers. I hate the look of that five and especially that zero, like a mouth gaping at how old and ancient I am. Stupid fifty.But I'm taking it really well!

  • User Post: Where on earth did this come from?

    Tonight, as she has for the past few weeks my 14-year-old is rehearsing for her school's production of Moulin Rouge. Soon she'll spend weekends rehearsing, seven hours a day up until the show's premiere in late February. In between she still seeks out and performs at open mic nights, singing and pla

  • User Post: My Top Five Searches of the Year

    Yahoo! recently released a list of their Top Searched Questions in 2010. They are:

  • My Daughter Won Some Tickets, I Talked To Ryan Seacrest, Then It Stopped Being Fun

    My daughter's been trying for weeks to get tickets to Jingle Ball, the annual holiday concert put on by KIIS FM. This year Katy Perry, Bruno Mars, Nelly and B.o.B. are going to be there and I'm sure everyone is going to have a grand old time and party like it's 2999. So every morning on the way to s

  • User post: Spam: It's What's For Dinner. No, Really.

    Today I'm going to talk about Spam. I'm not talking about the kind in your mailbox, I'm talking about the canned meat.Hey, where'd everybody go?

  • Thanksgiving Recipes: The Unwavering and the Unforgivable

    Every Thanksgiving my mom makes a lime green Jell-O mold. She insists that the only reason she keeps making it is because she failed to bring it one year and then my brother was disappointed and wondered where it was. My brother swears he's never asked about it, but knowing him he probably said some

  • Harry Potter And The Deathly School-Night Movie

    I know that's not the title of the movie. Although, for all I know it could be called 'Harry Potter And The New Moon' or even 'When Harry Potter Met Sally.' That's because I'm not a big Harry Potter fan - haven't read the books and only saw one of the movies and not even sure which one it was. The t

  • I Turned This Mutha Out

    A few weeks ago I was whisked away by Yahoo! to the first ever Motherboard Summit and spent a few days learning, socializing, and eating topped off by a night of karaoke where I may or may not have done some things I'll regret if I ever run for office. Oh, and I spoke on a panel in front of a room f

  • The Things We Do For ‘Glee’: 18-year-old Charice Pempengco Got Botox?

    Okay, I admit it -- I'm hooked on 'Glee.' After some initial reluctance, I have to admit to being sucked into all the hype and now you might say I'm even slightly obsessed. Then again, maybe everyone has Jane Lynch's face tattooed on their stomach.Apparently I'm not the only one willing to go to len

  • Angelina Jolie Has a New Secret Tattoo and You're Going to Help Me Guess What It Is

    So apparently Angelina Jolie and I have something in common. We both have tattoos on our inner-thighs that are "just for Brad." Well, mine is on my outer thigh, isn't just for Brad, and it isn't so much a tattoo as a scar from when I was 15 and fell down chasing the boy's water polo team into the lo

  • Well I'll Be Damned - Lindsay Lohan IS Going To Jail

    Well, I guess I'll have to eat my SCRAM bracelet -- despite my earlier prediction, Lindsay Lohan was just sentenced to 90 days in jail for failing to attend weekly alcohol education classes in violation of her probation...Read More...

  • Desperately Seeking Madonna and My Youth

    A couple of nights ago I sat down with my girls and watched 'Desperately Seeking Susan.' For you kids out there, the film featured Madonna in her first starring role and was also probably the only movie that made me head straight out afterwards to buy a black corset and fifty rubber bracelets. That

  • This just doesn't add up

    As I child, I puzzled my teachers. My inability to add six columns of numbers in my head or multiply fractions in nanoseconds confounded them. Why couldn't I figure out the circumference of all the circles in the diagram and calculate how many of them it would take to fill up the Pentagon? What coul

  • The Devil Wears Uggs

    When I started writing a post on online safety for this month's Yahoo Motherboard, I immediately started seeing images of sweaty guys in trenchcoats, or glassy-eyed dudes sitting in front of their computer screen eating nachos and slurping on a Bud Light. So much for going through pictures of my ex-

  • Please God Don't Make Me Look At Jon Gosselin's Back Tattoo

    Jon Gosselin, former star of 'Jon and Kate Plus Eight' has something new underneath his Ed Hardy. And if you have any friends who just can't resist a man with a tattoo, this may cure them forever...Read More...

  • 'The Bachelor' Split Shocks No One Except For The Bachelor

    Wow -- who saw this coming? Alleged hottie Jake Pavelka proposes to an ex-Hooters waitress on last season's 'The Bachelor' and now they've called off the engagement because she's - wait for it - cheating on him! Damn, and just as I was getting over the Liza Minelli / David Gest split...Read More...