Motherwise Cracks

My daughter has been bugging us to get a new puppy because her friend got a new puppy. She promises to feed and care for the pup and I believe her. And therein lies the problem. As soon as the dog grows up it would be added to my “to do” list like all our [...]

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For most of his elementary years, I fed my son out of a set of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle bowls I bought at a garage sale.

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Trapped, waiting for my son to need me, I cleaned shelf in kitchen of tapes from 1980s. (I haven’t had a tape player since 1999.) Listening carefully for vomiting sounds, retire Simpson’s Halloween character set into storage for next year.

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Our team had the state record for the number of losses – not a stat you brag about…

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If you have had a child away in college, camp or some other “away” experience, you know the feeling of helplessness that comes with the homesick call. You are helpless because you are far away. You can talk and suggest but you have no control. Of course you remind them how much you care, you [...]

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(A tried and true method for getting your cousin’s boyfriend out of the picture for a few minutes.) I came home to find my niece sitting in my easy chair with a drink next to her. With a nerf gun poised in her other hand, she was texting my daughter’s boyfriend this message below, happily [...]

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The jury is in: I am dumb, blind or tripping. The charges: Inaccurate identification of clothes crapping up my living room, and stating the obvious to a hormonally-saturated youth triggering an overdeveloped brain-to-mouth connection. The football season is over and thankfully my son is catching up on the piles of laundry smelling up his room, [...]

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