March 29th, 2009 06:18pm

Top Ten Family Movies at Our House

by Disparate.Housewife

Last week, I wrote about how I often leave Blockbuster feeling frustrated. Not just because there aren’t many family-friendly movies to rent, but also because the crude and violent movies that get made are such a waste of the skills and resources of the people who work on them. Couldn’t they put their considerable talents to work on something more uplifting? A movie that doesn’t appeal to the basest of … Read More »
March 22nd, 2009 05:29pm

Videophobia

by Disparate.Housewife

Oftentimes when Steve and I are on our way home from running errands on a Saturday, he suggests stopping at the video store to see if there is anything to rent. My typical response is, “Can I wait in the car?” The reason I would prefer to clean out the receipts in my purse while Steve makes a loop around Blockbuster is because when I do go in, I always leave … Read More »
March 15th, 2009 07:13pm

A Senior Moment

by Disparate.Housewife

Steve had a birthday last week. And he couldn’t help asking me the rhetorical questions, “Will you still need me, will you still feed me, now that I’m 64?” When Paul McCartney wrote that song as a teenager, 64 must have seemed to him like the point at which a person turns into a tottering old person puttering in the garden. But no one, except our kids, would ever look at … Read More »
March 8th, 2009 06:49pm

Home Free

by admin

Working in a home-based business, especially as a mom, has a lot of advantages. Top of the list has to be the flexibility; I can throw a load of wash in or run to the grocery store whenever it is convenient for me. And since almost all of the client contact for our marketing business is done over the phone rather than in-person, the only non-family members who have to … Read More »
March 1st, 2009 05:05pm

Disarming Prejudice

by admin

As you probably know by now, I have a special interest in people with limb anomalies because my 16-year-old daughter, Valerie, was born without a left arm. So when I happened to go to the “Today Show” website last Thursday and saw that the title of the most the prominent story on the page was, “Is Disabled TV Host Scaring Kids?” it certainly grabbed my attention. The scary host mentioned in … Read More »