Bat Woman rides again #cats #humor
“You should get a cat,” my neighbor said. I had just explained how a tiny mousie ran across the room directly over …
Category Archives: Previously Published Work
In times of trouble, parents reached for Pink Stuff #ThrowbackThursday #parenting
I was talking to my daughter and she mentioned that the days of pouring antibiotics into kids at the first …
Parenting. This is nothing we were ever trained for. #MothersDay
Happy Mothers Day! BLAST FROM THE PAST: Barb Taub, Weekly Column, Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette, Nov. 1989 My mother’s hair is getting pretty …
Old Wives and Pipe Staples? #SundayBlogShare
How to talk weather in Scotland In Scotland, you can talk to anybody, anytime as long as you start each …
Life begins when the kids leave home and the dog dies
Going waaaaaay back for Throwback Thursday! ( Published: Champaign Urbana News-Gazette, 1990) As proof of the continuing deterioration to be expected …
Creepiest photo on the web. Happy Easter. #SundayBlogShare
The first time we did the Mouse, Donald Duck waddled up to us. He was reaching out to Child #2 when she hauled off and planted him a solid one straight to his – duckness. As I hustled the kids out of there, I noticed Daisy Duck was trying to help him up despite quacking up herself.
Her fiction = my truth? Claire Fullerton’s #romantic DANCING TO AN IRISH REEL
[Happy St. Pats! I’m celebrating with a repost of Claire Fullerton’s guest blog. Dancing to an Irish Reel might not …
St. Paddy & those eyeballs #wwwblogs
Happy St. Pats day to everyone (because tomorrow we’re all Irish)! Hope you enjoy this repeat of a story from a …
My annual Valentine’s Day BC (Before Children) vs AD (After Delivery) #SundayBlogShare
While I’m on the road this month, here is a repeat from Valentine’s Day past. Happy Valentine’s Day and wishing …
Of Mice and Moms
OF course the 8-year-old loved rodents. In her entire life, I doubted she’d seen more than three movies that didn’t include animated rodents. And she loved every one of them, from Anatole, the bravest mouse in France, to Mickey, the richest mouse in pants.
Barb Taub 