Dreaming in the Sunshine
When I was pregnant with the first Impossible Miracle, I had a dream that I foolishly shared with my sister in the presence of Sunshine. It was a typical dream, I think, for pregnant women, […]
Control the Crazy, Sunshine!
Everyone has buttons that can be pressed to make them angry, frustrated, or enraged. I’m usually sent into fits of rage whenever my mother says something less-than-flattering about my children. I am probably quite typical […]
Big Fat Rays of Sunshine, Part 2
We were all fat in Sunshine’s eyes. No, that’s not true. Lynne and I were her fat daughters. Straighten Up! and The Tempest were extra thin, thus they were spared the fat taunts. They were […]
Big Fat Rays of Sunshine, Part 1
I was a fat kid. At least, that’s what I was told. “Fat” was the word Sunshine used. She used it early (when I was as young as age 5) and often. She encouraged others […]
Soaps and Sunshine, Part 2
Lynne is right, Sunshine loves her soap operas. No, she LOVES her soap operas. And CNN. And talk shows. And television in general. Me too. I love TV. No, I LOVE TV. I always have. […]
Soaps and Sunshine
For someone as obsessed with the imagined sexual behavior of her young daughter as my mother was, Sunshine was remarkably unconcerned with the sex education I got from her favorite soap operas. She was a […]
Halloween Sucks Because of the Sunshine
Let me begin with this statement: I hate Halloween. Hate it. Very, very, very much hate Halloween. It’s almost here and all I can think is how I can’t wait for it to be over. […]
What Have We Done?
If my mother, whom we call Sunshine, is all the things that we described in the About Us page, why and how did she come to live with me? Fair question. It’s a question that my husbandBatman […]
Do You Know What the Vagina Is?! Do you?!!
The Mayo Clinic advises that when it comes to menstruation, it’s important to begin explaining early. They say the sooner a mother starts talking to her daughter, the better. Don’t teach by way of The […]
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