Another sort of DIY

It’s the biggest guilt trip you’ll ever go on. It’s the most extreme road rage you’ll ever feel. It makes you so self-doubting you want to stick a diaper bag over your head and retreat forever from human contact. Yes, parenting. If one more parent tells me breathlessly, “But it’s so worth it! It’s the best [...]

Schmunching with Ms Fix-It

I have a girl crush and she goes by the name of Jennifer Phelps, a.k.a. Ms Fix-It. She fixes things and organizes people’s spaces and now shares her expertise in classes around Tucson. So there, last night, were me and four other women passing around power tools and asking her very, very rudimentary questions. Very. The fact [...]

Girlie bargains

Remember ‘The Girls’? I spent a day with the Tucson estate sale firm a few months back, indulged in their free cookies, witnessed the organized frenzy that is their weekly estate sale,  interviewed their devoted followers (because the people who follow them around town every Saturday really are like disciples), and we kept in touch. Today, Laura and [...]

Beyonce and a bleak back yard

Severe procrastination = watching Kathie Lee Gifford make a tit of herself on national TV, dancing to Beyonce. I just did that. Why, when I neither like Ms Gifford nor Beyonce? Because most of my back yard is dead, that’s why. OK so we didn’t get inches of snow like other states and countries I [...]

The Closet Diaries, Part 4: The Reveal

I learned that using a saw is harder than it looks. I learned that painting a small space with hardly any wiggle room is tricky and can mess with one’s hair color. I learned that when you don’t pay kids so much attention, they somehow find a way to entertain themselves and each other, and are [...]