shh, don't wake the DRUNKEN HOUSEWIFE

Meandering anecdotes and an occasional incisive comment, courtesy of an overeducated, feminist former-professional, who is continually outsmarted by her overly-gifted children and genius spouse and who seeks refuge in books, cocktails, and the occasional Xanax.

Friday, December 15, 2017

the microbes and me

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My life as a stay-at-home mother has pretty much come to an end. My beloved Iris uber Alles left home early at 16 (she insists this had noth...
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Thursday, June 02, 2016

your long-overdue update

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This poor old blog has fallen into deep neglect, and the reason is chiefly that my darlings Iris uber Alles and Lola have turned into highly...
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Friday, December 11, 2015

what price should we charge

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Sophomore Iris was hard at work on her homework when she made a rather random observation to her father that in some places in the world, pe...
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Thursday, December 03, 2015

the sparkling social life of the semi-hermitic

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The Sober Husband and I have become homebodies.  After all, when you have a comfortable home with pleasant company, it doesn't always ma...
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Sunday, September 27, 2015

a practical mindset

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So I have been a vegetarian since I was a senior in college, waaaay back in the eighties, and the children have always been vegetarians.  Ba...
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Friday, September 25, 2015

dancing the limbo

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So I had a mammogram recently, the first one I'd had in a long time.  I had intended to have one a couple of years ago, but I ran into p...
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Thursday, August 13, 2015

shingles vaccine from hell!!

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I am strongly pro-vaccine.  It's delightful that children aren't stuck in iron lungs nowadays.  I remember having the mumps and am g...
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