Have you read my previous posts on “How to Be a Wheel of Fortune Contestant”? If you’d like to read this story from the beginning, Part 1 is here, and Part 2 is here. Okay, so I did well at the Round 1 Wheelmobile event in Knoxville, TN in May, 2012. And then I didn’t […]
How to Be a Wheel of Fortune Contestant, Part 2: The Wheelmobile (Round 1)
Have you read Part 1 of “How to Be a Wheel of Fortune Contestant”? If you’d like to read this story from the beginning, Part 1 is here. I signed up online for the Wheel of Fortune newsletter to arrive in my email, just because I’m nerdy, and not because I expected it to turn into […]
How to Be a Wheel of Fortune Contestant, Part 1: Introduction
I have the best answer ever for icebreaker games: I was once a contestant on Wheel of Fortune. I know, I can’t believe it either. In September 2012, after two rounds of tryouts, I flew to LA and stepped onto the stage to try my hand at spinning the Wheel. My episode aired on November […]
Miracle at Miracle Strip
Sometimes the planets align just right. Every 75 years or so, Halley’s Comet streaks across the sky, and that’s my metaphor for my family’s night at Miracle Strip Amusement Park in Panama City Beach, Florida. We drove from Arkansas to PCB in about 13 hours with three kids, a golden retriever, and a cargo topper […]
Top 10 Potential Ashley Madison Hackers
“Life is short. Have an affair.” The now-hacked Ashley Madison slogan seems pitifully out of place considering that 32 million people potentially searching for affairs may now be in very big trouble with their boyfriends, girlfriends, and spouses. Like all of America, I’m shocked, disgusted, and in a “train-wreck-can’t-look-away” way fascinated by computer hackers’ recent online […]
10 Things I Hope My Kids Will Say About Their Childhood
Someday my kids will grow up. Sometimes a day seems to last a month, and sometimes a month flies by like the snap of my fingers. But someday, someday, they will grow up. They will leave our house and go off to make their own lives. They’ll go to college and choose their paths. They will date […]
She Thought I Was a Bad Mother
You are a bad mother. She didn’t say it in so many words. It was the way she looked at me after she caught me in a moment of parental weakness…accusatory, disgusted, disbelieving that she could be in the presence of such a deadbeat parent. I poke fun at my own parenting skills (or lack thereof) all […]
A Summer Halftime Speech for My Kids
Hey, kids. Huddle up. In case you haven’t noticed, with the beginning of July, summer is now halfway over. It’s time for us to have a summer halftime speech, get our butts in gear, and complete all those goals we ambitiously laid out at the end of May. In May, we were so ready […]
Dear Moms: There’s a Taylor Swift Song for That
Ever since I heard a young Taylor Swift sing “Tim McGraw” back in 2006, I knew that Taylor had my number. Even though I’m old enough to be her, *ahem* older sister, Swift’s catchy songs (she writes or co-writes nearly all of them), her likability, and her genuine capacity to connect to the experience of […]
Dear Future (and Past, and Present) Husband
Dear Future (and Past, and Present) Husband, Yesterday was our ninth wedding anniversary. Nine years ago, we were married outside, in the South, in the oppressive heat and humidity. Our families, our friends, and relatives we had never heard of arrived in droves to see our impending nuptials and silently judge my choices of color, decor, […]
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