I totally was going to take the day off from posting since I did three, count ’em, three posts yesterday. I don’t want to spoil you all, you know! (yes I do…) However, my girl Weather Kim has put a call out for help from Suburban Scrawl readers. She is hosting one of the many inauguration balls going on this evening in Washington D.C., and is having people vote on which dress she will wear. Both dresses are gorgeous, but she prefers one over the other, so she asked me to ask you to go vote. “But Melisa, wouldn’t that fix the vote?” Yes, yes it would. But you see,…
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When I Was In High School, I Didn’t Even Know What A Lockdown Was.
It’s been quite the stressful day. The high school that the 16-year-old attends was on lockdown from first period (about 7:25 a.m.-ish) until about 12:45 p.m. Apparently a student saw another student in a bathroom, doing what looked like loading a gun, so he did the right thing and reported it, causing the lockdown, subsequent flooding of the area by police, and the drama that has gone on for most of the high school day. First, thank GOD for cell phones. We stayed in touch with our son the whole time. He was in his English class (a room with no outside windows) for the duration, with the lights off.…
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Persuading Americans To Sit On The Couch is Like Persuading Cookie Monster To…Well, You Know.
So, tonight begins the Fall TV season; do you have your viewing plan all set? The good news is that, according to ABC, this week is “National Stay at Home Week”. My question is, who was the “genius” executive that thought the public had to be told to stay home this week–to save gas, no less–in order to catch Week One of the New Season? Between the writer’s strike that chopped last season into little tiny pieces, the extra-long summer of reruns, the Olympics (nothing against them), the political conventions, and the awards shows that—so far, anyway—seem to have been written by non-writers and have proven to be mind-numbing wastes…
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Is This You?
A Letter To The Parent Who Does Not Wear a Bike Helmet*: Each time I see you on the road, “bare-headed”, following your children whose heads are safely ensconced in their own helmets, I cannot help but wonder what you are thinking…or if you are thinking at all. Two things immediately come to my mind, the first being the idea that you are not setting a very good example for your children. The messages you are broadcasting to those wee ones by not wearing a helmet are “It is important for you to wear a helmet, but not so much for me” and “Do as I say but not as…
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What Do Frogs and John Belushi Have To Do With Teenagers, Anyway?
This post is a Public Service to you all out there: 1. For those of you who with no kids…laugh it up.2. For those of you who have teens right now…commiserate.3. For those of you who have little ones…prepare yourselves.4. For those of you who have grown kids…laugh it up (see how we will all come Full Circle?). One New Year’s Day morning, several years ago, my sister Julie and I were sprawled out in my living room, slightly hungover from our family (in-house) festivities of New Year’s Eve, the night before. (She smartly spent the night instead of getting on the road.) We were exhausted and not feeling much…