The Day I Killed Mom #ThrowbackThursday #humor
a (mostly) true story [Throwback Thursday excerpt from Life Begins When The Kids Leave Home And The Dog Dies] When …
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Tell me again why we have pets? PLUS: And the winners are… #humor #ThrowbackThursday #pets
It’s a tough job, but… My dog only has two jobs. One is to earn a cookie by fetching the …
Of #Family Trees, Swell #Funerals, and South Side #Chicago. #humor
I was trying to come up with a good intro for Judith Barrow’s incredible generational family series about the Howarth …
Happy #Mother’sDay. Anyway… PLUS Last day for #FreeBook. #humor
I’ve received many interesting Mother’s Day gifts over the years—there is a reason we now have a “not if it’s breathing” …
Mother’s Day Freebie ~ and a gift for you too! #humor #nonfiction #Mother’sDay
Perfect Mother’s Day Present—Mom needs it and so do you! Good news! For Mother’s Day, you can get Mom her …
Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be English majors. #humor #parenting
I also could have studied math. But I’m still convinced that the best place for calculus in my life is punishment. (As in “Barb, the court finds you guilty of the crimes of baby murder and playing the accordion in public, and sentences you to twenty years of hard calculus.”)
Libraries I’ve disrupted, snooped, and loved #humor #MothersDayPresent
Before there was Google, there was Mom. “Who was our 14th president?” I would ask her. “What’s the capital of …
Perfect gift for Mom? Just say NO! (She’ll thank you later) #humor #MothersDay
J’accuse! One of my favorite bloggers—actually, sister act/writers Anita Dawes and Jaye Marie— accused me recently of volunteering. Saying “yes”. …
My house makes me sick #humor #decorating #mother #SundayBlogShare
“Is your house done?” Everywhere I go, people ask me some variation of this question. Nobody actually wants …
#Valentine’s Day BC (Before Children) vs AD (After Delivery) #humor
(Barb’s Guide to Films: if the characters kiss a lot, have sex, and then kill each other, it’s American. If the characters smoke a lot, have sex, and then kill themselves, it’s foreign.)
