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Super Bowl Sunday coup: Times Sqare is empty, which inspires me to try to get last-minute tickets to The Lion King. Orchestra seats! Score!
3:22 PM Feb 5th
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In NYC at my mom's co-op I read Surviving a Borderline Parent. I hide the book when she comes home like I'm a teenager sneaking beer.
6:07 PM Feb 4th
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I swipe my son's knapsack off the back seat, eat half his cookie, throw the rest out the window. I am the queen of diet self-discipline.
7:09 AM Feb 3rd
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Gen X moment: my son is at a skatepark instead of at school. Dead Kennedys on his t-shirt, Kurt Cobain on the speakers.
11:15 AM Feb 2nd
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Piglet cuteness overwhelms; I wear good boots in pig poop. For a meeting I dab them with Chanel. The banker says, "You smell like popcorn."
12:44 PM Feb 1st
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Secret iPhone feature: I left it on top of my oven, and one hour later the iPhone flashed the word Temperature and prompted me to call 911.
11:11 AM Jan 30th
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Now that I live on a farm I realize that only city people talk about cooking from scratch; farm people say they grew it or they bought it.
1:37 PM Jan 29th
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Skateboard class emergency: My Xanax spills into the halfpipe. Too steep for my feet. I have to ask a kid on his board to pick up my pills.
2:13 PM Jan 20th
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First farm birth of the year! Eight cozy piglets nurse in unseasonably warm weather. Two very excited boys track placenta into the house.
3:00 PM Jan 8th
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My son with Asperger's says his social skills coach is boring and has a weird nose. I'm happy he has social skills to tell me and not her.
9:06 AM Dec 16th, 2011
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My son does math for goat feed: 1 bag full price vs 3 discounted. Then he says, "Could Alaska have been cheaper if we bought all of Canada?"
5:12 PM Dec 15th, 2011
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It's the third call from the local library. My daily fines have reached double-digits for How to Raise a Self-Disciplined Child.
2:25 PM Dec 12th, 2011
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My son just came downstairs in his Penn State t-shirt and I said, "Uh. We need to throw that shirt out."
8:30 AM Dec 5th, 2011
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I'm trying to decide if I should take a Xanax or read the Time magazine article on why anxiety is good.
10:33 AM Dec 4th, 2011
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Why are we quiet in libraries? Collaborative learning is loud. And if you read everywhere you go, you're used to reading in loud places.
12:07 PM Dec 3rd, 2011
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When Congress finally gets its fair share of women, then we'll have calorie-count labels on wine coolers.
4:23 PM Nov 22nd, 2011
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Is it onomonapia that monotonous has a dull sounding, visually repetitive problem with all those o's?
7:21 AM Nov 20th, 2011
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Each farm we pass has a group of hunters dressed head to toe in bright orange. They look like boys playing superheroes. Are deer colorblind?
9:47 AM Nov 19th, 2011
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Goat auctions start: My son cries. I cry. I run to the back to negotiate. The Farmer is incredulous. Now we're driving home with our goat.
8:58 AM Nov 19th, 2011
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The goat sale has ten signs: NO PHOTOS! I take this to mean animal mistreatment and I get my camera. The Farmer pretends he doesn't know me.
8:00 AM Nov 19th, 2011
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- Name Penelope Trunk
- Location Darlington, WI
- Web http://www.penelo...
- Bio author, blogger, entrepreneur
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