As Serious as a Heart Attack.

CEO — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:21:53 -0800

No, it really wasn’t entirely the excitement of the Obama win that has kept me from putting pen to paper or sitting down to my computer with a cup of coffee and tapping out a few pithy sentences. A little more than a week before the election, my husband Richard came home from a weekend trip and promptly had a heart attack.

A Trip Outside Our Bubble.

CEO — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:19:04 -0700

I am a little pent-up. Okay, pent-up is a not quite it. I’m a wreck. I go to sleep thinking about votes flipping in West Virginia, I wake up worrying about vote caging in Ohio.

Three-Martini Mom, a Tool of the Right.

CEO — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:48:20 -0700

Not long after I wrote "The Three-Martini Playdate", I was reviewed in "The Weekly Standard,” which I soon discovered to be a scathingly right-wing neo-conservative rag, a publication with which I vociferously disagreed in all matters.

Voting Like It's 1999.

CEO — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:55:36 -0700

So. The Palin. Now that I’ve picked my jaw up off the floor and have stopped the incessant head-shaking and screaming to the heavens, I can finally weigh in on this.

Imagination and a Martini.

karianna — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:05:20 -0700

With the economy in the tank, I’m suddenly hearing more and more about the “staycation.“ As in, Honey, let’s stay at home this summer, instead of popping off to the Algarve, or driving to the Oregon coast. Or, in fact, driving our Land Rover to the beach, because that now costs about ninety bucks for the fifteen minutes it’ll take to get there.

Eco Smackdown.

WGlenn — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:16:39 -0700

*A note from the author: Well, now I’ve gone and done it. I wrote this piece a few days ago, and was tinkering with it, when Amy Keroes, editor of Mommy Track’d, asked what my new topic was going to be. “Well, it’s a rant,” I said. Rather smugly, I’m sure. “About SUVs, and some other stuff.” And then she said, oh good, it would fit right in with Risa Green’s piece. Had I read Risa Green’s piece?

Road Trip!

WGlenn — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:41:08 -0700

Being on the road with the family is a test of wills, a test of manners, and a test of endurance. But it’s summer! And isn’t it fun to pile in the car with a load of sleeping bags and a deck of cards? And doesn’t it add to the excitement when, an hour out of town, you start hearing that weird rattle coming from the front wheel-well? And isn’t it fun to take bets with your spouse on how soon the first “Are We There Yet?” is heard?

Toasts

WGlenn — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:21:07 -0700

Well, I guess it was bound to happen. There I was, reading an e-mail from a friend about how he and his wife, a few days before, had been sitting curled up on the sofa watching “Knocked Up,” when they suddenly realized it was their wedding anniversary. Not only had they forgotten their wedding anniversary, they realized that exactly a year before -- on their wedding anniversary -- they’d been watching “Knocked Up.”

Mommy, Does This Make Me Look Fat?

WGlenn — Fri, 23 May 2008 06:31:04 -0700

I have sons, which shields me from some of the oddities of the young female set. Not to say that boys don’t have their own sets of peculiarities. But as the mother of boys, there are a few things I just don’t have to deal with. I know, I’m a girl, but there are some things I’m glad I don’t have to deal with. For instance, boys generally don’t have to change into new outfits several times a day.

Martini Metamorphosis for HBO.

WGlenn — Mon, 05 May 2008 07:39:29 -0700

Well, we turned in the first draft of the pilot script for the half-hour HBO comedy, The Three- Martini Playdate.

The “we” to whom I refer is Wendy Goldman, a friend I’ve mentioned in a previous column. She was the one who originally thought my book would make such a good TV show, and happily, her agent agreed with her. And eventually, HBO thought so too.