My life has taken on the navigation of a shopping cart. You think you're going straight when suddenly, the wheel sticks and you do a sharp 90 degree turn into a shelf filled with now-toppling cans. Last week, I got diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer. Awesome. My first stop is four months of chemo. Then …
Tales of the doomed wristwatch
Not sure about you guys, but I'm tired of looking at my iPhone 20 MILLION times a day to see what time it is. I already look at it enough, not to mention I did slam my coconut head into a pole one day. So I ordered an actual watch - the kind that goes …
Clackamas Women’s Services needs your vote
They don't call me the Ultimate Turnaround Person for nothing. If there's one thing I'm officially about, it's empowering women. Clackamas Women's Services does just that - empowers women to get out of abusive relationships. Unfortunately, I've got plenty of personal experience with that, too. So I'm passing this along: Clackamas Women's Services has the …
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The ultimate TIME OUT
TIME OUT performer-moms got together at Mint last night to celebrate the end of the show.
Good-bye Carmen
Dear Carmen,I am so happy I got to perform with you and know you. No offense to other performers, but you were the funniest person in this town and WAY underrated. Who else could roll an oxygen tank on stage and make a joke out of it? I listened in awe as you talked about …
Happy Mother’s Day!
Reporting live from a field in Amishville and missing Mother's Day at home. I've been away from my family for almost two weeks. That's nothing compared to military moms serving overseas. My heart goes out to them and all moms who aren't with their kids. I'm so lucky to have such an amazing husband, two …
Rewind: Saturday night in Palo Alto
Founder, executive director, board members and others who work at Blossom Birth. They're all smart and fantastically funny.
Saying good-bye to TIME OUT
The Examiner just published a story about the end of TIME OUT mom comedy. Check it out: http://www.examiner.com/article/goodbye-time-out-part-oneSad, but relieved to get some breathing room in my schedule. Thanks, Mickey, for the article.
Talking The SEX Talk
Amy Lang, the authority of sex talk, walked us through the inevitable last weekend. Check her out at birdsandbeesandkids.com. Next up for me: extra work on Portlandia tomorrow and playing a crack whore on Grimm this week.
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