Protected: My Son said Mom Instead of Umma
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Category: Musings
My Own Private India
Joel Stein writes: Unlike some of my friends in the 1980s, I liked a lot of things about the way my town changed: far better restaurants, friends dorky enough to play Dungeons & Dragons with me, restaurant owners who didn’t card us because all white people look old. But sometime after I left, the town became a maze of charmless Indian strip malls and housing developments. Whenever I go back, I feel what people in Arizona talk about: a sense of loss and anomie and disbelief that anyone can eat food that spicy.
Protected: And they lived happily ever after
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Protected: And the waiting is the hardest part …
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Just what do stay-at-home moms do all day? Seriously.
Columnist Carolyn Hax breaks it down as to why your stay-at-home mom friends may be just a tad too busy to cater to your every need. Excellent column from a great writer.
18 Weeks
There is no guarantee for any of us that there will be a tomorrow. Life is fragile and is meant to be appreciated every day, even when it includes a loss.
The resolution I won’t be making
It’s near the end of the year when everyone will be making the same resolutions: Save more money, promote world peace and, um, lose weight. I’ll certainly give it my all with the first two, but I won’t be among the millions of Americans vowing to diet.
Sun-Times writers win 6 Lisagor journalism awards
“The Baby Ceiling,” a three-part series describing the quest for children for professional women and written by Debra Pickett, Lisa Lenoir, Sara Fiedelholtz, Jae-Ha Kim, Jim Ritter, Chris Ledbetter and Deborah Douglas won the features award for daily newspapers of more than 300,000.
