When I was a kid, Christmas season hadn’t officially kicked in until we started the parade of Christmas specials. Rudolph usually started things off, and we continued through Frosty, the Grinch, and of course, Charlie Brown and his sad little droopy pine bough that somehow transforms into a full fledged tree. Still looking for one [...]

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If you’re anything like me (and considering the average American gains, what, 10 pounds over the holidays?) the traditional November-December season is fraught with peril. Everywhere you look you are greeted with gobs of pumpkin pie, piles of gingerbread, and decadent, sticky fudge….mmmm….fudge. And booze. The holidays are entirely and inextricably linked to indulgence.
However, if [...]

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Is buying Halloween candy as daunting a proposition for anyone else as it is for me? It seems simple enough: go to the store, grab a few bags of chocolate, and toss it at the kids who show up at your door on October 31st. Child’s play. But the whole October candy free- for-all is [...]

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I am supposed to be writing about my distaste for being scared. I am supposed to be writing about how I don’t like being chased through corn mazes by actors with chainsaws or jumping out of my seat at some zombie hand reaching out of the darkness. It’s simple, you see. There are enough frightening [...]

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This post is about the maintenance of one’s crotch. Yeah, I know, I’m surprised I’m bringing this topic up too. But hey, if you can’t share TMI with a few hundred of your closest acquaintances who can you share with?
I was brought up in a fairly low-maintenance household. My mom put my hair in a [...]

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Avast ye scurvy scum! Today be Talk Like a Pirate Day!! Argh! If you’re like me, you’ve heard of this, peripherally, but had no idea what it meant or why it was so popular. According to the official website, it was basically two guys who just kind of started doing it, then Dave Barry got [...]

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(This entry contains stick figure shenanigans and a passing reference to male anatomy- so if you are at work, consider yourself warned!)

On my round of errands this morning, I stopped at the gas station. As I got out of my car, I noticed the SUV parked at the pump ahead of me had what [...]

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In my family, birthdays were always a big deal. About a month ahead of time, my mother would start asking me what I might like, what type of cake I wanted that year (chocolate), who I would like to invite to my party, what special dinner I would subject the rest of the family to [...]

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For the final installment of the Think Globally Eat Locally series, we’d like to share some of your favorite recipes using seasonal summer produce. If you have one you’d like to share, please send them to blog@constantchatter.com by Wednesday, August 15th and we’ll include as many as we can!

 
I have vague recollections of driving [...]

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There is a kid in my playgroup whose mother is convinced he is gifted. She found a site on the internet, you see, and based on their rather vague self-assessment she is sure he is the next Einstein. Now as far as I or anyone else can tell, his major gifts in this world seem [...]

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