NOTE: Please check with your doctor, therapist, life coach, Wiccan priestess or congressional representative before listening to anything I say. Did you miss Part I? Click on this BUTTON. How about Part II? Click on this BUTTON. In the short few days since my last installment, two unfortunate happenings occurred. First: an Alert Peep informed Read More
Dear Generous Readers, Sometimes the Savvy Sister encounters people in everyday life who need her advice but don’t have five minutes to send her an email. If they would just quick checking Facebook ever so briefly they could write down a single sentence and zip it off to me, but whatever. Those freaky cat videos Read More
NOTE: Please check with your doctor, therapist, life coach, Wiccan priestess or congressional representative before listening to anything I say. Did you miss Part I? Don’t worry! You can read it by clicking this here button! BUTTON. You know what I hate? Cheez-Its. I really hate Cheez-Its. Little squares of color not found in nature Read More
Reminder: The questions in this occasional column are posed by actual people. Dear Savvy Sister, A few days ago I finally watched “A Beautiful Mind” with Russell Crowe. It was so powerful, and as we have a nephew who deals with bipolar disease, it hit pretty close to home, too. But to see what Dr. Read More
I spent a good deal of my senior year in high school on the Atkins Diet plan. Remember that? The no-carb fad? I ate like a sumo wrestler. My best friend and I consumed bacon by the pound. No matter how much we ate, we lost a pound a day, every day. It was like Read More
Children can make you say things you don’t mean, like, “SHUT UP!” and “JUST LEAVE ME ALONE” and “OH MY GOD STOP TOUCHING ME!” Or maybe that’s just me. I work harder to control my temper these days than I ever have in my life. I’m not a naturally calm person. I’m impatient. I don’t Read More
The questions featured in this occasional column were written by actual people. Dear Savvy Sister, I loaned my best friend money about nine years ago – before I had kids – to get her car out of repo. She told me it was the bank’s fault. I also helped her get a different loan Read More
My book club peeps wanted to read The Paris Wife by Paula McLain. I did not. But I don’t make waves because they graciously allowed me to join their group after my last book club experiment ended with me crying in a driveway. So I read The Paris Wife, and I loved it, which is Read More
Lost in the whole contraception debate is another, more compelling reason for women to take the birth control pill, which is to avoid having gallons of blood pouring from their vaginas for days at a time. Is there any further proof of evolution? For God to have made us this way on purpose — well, Read More
After we watched The Lorax the other day, we stopped at the theater’s line of gumball machines. Because that’s what we do. The Pterodactyl used his quarters to buy/win the tiniest cross ever on a piece of black thread, and he gave it to me. I’ve been wearing it ever since. I love it. “Aren’t Read More
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