I behaved at Andy’s work party. There was a game where we had to guess what items were in various stockings and I was so polite and dignified that when I fondled one of the stockings I held myself back from guessing, “ball sack?” even though I swear it was.
Speaking of ball [...]

The in-laws are here. That’s all I have to say. I think it’s harder to deal with in-laws when they’re nice, then you feel like a total Spencer douchbag for getting irritated with them. So, I am taking a breather. Went to pilates, got coffee, and am considering a pedicure [...]

It can be difficult for me to leave preschool without Little E having a melt down. Over the past few years I’ve had to create little routines, but they always have to change and get updated like Adobe or Windows. What worked then (sitting down with Little E at breakfast with the other [...]

So, the Black List came out. It’s an index of the year’s best-liked, not-yet-produced screenplays. More than 250 film executives were polled and it’s supposedly a chance “to get a sneak peak at some of the hottest scripts most people have probably never heard of.” THE DESCENDANTS made the list! Very [...]

In grade school I used to love those jokes where a kid would learn the wrong names of sexual anatomy and then say things like, “I saw Daddy’s submarine going toward Mommy’s abyss (or whatever. I forget the wording). Anyway, telling and hearing these jokes was not only a fun activity, but [...]

The New York Times has picked their ten best books of 2008. I still prefer my picks from the Hemmings’ Beat Down Foundation Awards, but at least there weren’t any titles on their list that made me want to throw in the towel and become an Atlanta housewife.
Their top ten:
A MERCY by [...]

This is Michelle Wildgen’s bio: She lives in Madison, Wisconsin. She grew up in Stow, Ohio, where she frequently skipped church and went out for cheeseburgers at Swenson’s drive-in instead. She would like to think the state remembers her fondly. She’s pretty sure the drive-in does. She attended the University of Wisconsin, worked [...]