Confessions of a Dirty Housewife
A couple of years ago I started enlisting the kids in a weekly ritual I like to call The Hour in Which My House No Longer Smells Like Dog and Used Kleenex. I followed up throughout the week with...
View Article10 Ways to Screw Up Baking, A Cautionary Tale
I like to make little comments in my cookbooks when I make the recipes. I write stuff like ‘Excellent’, ‘Needs more salt’, and ‘Kids liked it’. Last night I made a cake, and after the traumatic...
View ArticleSuburban Housewife Rap
I can’t get this out of my head so I had to share it with you. And if you don’t live in the suburbs, let me assure you, it’s all true. No related posts.
View ArticleTop 10 Things That Could Go Wrong While Baking
This is the December edition of the print version of After the Bubbly, an award winning family humor column. If you’d like to see it in a local publication, let me know and I’ll do my best to get it...
View ArticleWhose Fault Is That?
I don’t bake. Scratch that. I don’t bake often. However, when I’m snowed in or hormonal or really jonesin’ for some homemade sweetness, I’ll bust out the Kitchen Aid stand mixer and mess up my...
View Article3 Steps to Good Housekeeping
This is the April edition of the print version of After the Bubbly, an award winning family humor column. If you’d like to see it in a local publication, let me know and I’ll do my best to get it...
View ArticleContaining Myself
I lost my Container Store virginity last week. I’d heard the hype so I walked around an outdoor shopping mall in north Dallas for forty minutes waiting for it to open on July 4th. Sure, I was also...
View ArticleSorry About the Flowers
To my husband who will not read this: Do you really think it’s wise to leave me alone with the children, a sick dog, and our plants for a week? The kids I can handle; they ask for food and soda...
View ArticlePodcast: Holiday Baking Disaster
I tend to think I can do anything. Most days this type of unreasonable confidence serves me well. And then I try to bake. I recorded this essay, which is included in Blacklisted from the PTA, to...
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