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But Wait, There’s More
by Rhonda Rhea @RhondaRhea Infomercials almost always worked at my house. When we were raising our five kids, I’m not sure a week went by without one of them running to me with some version of: “Mom! We have to get the Kitchen Magic Missile! It does the work of 25…
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Delusions, Illusions, and Better Conclusions
by Rhonda Rhea @RhondaRhea Opinions. I have them. Oh, how I have them. Loud ones and high ones. Colorful and wry ones. I try to make sure I come up with three or four good opinions to have on standby—just in case somebody asks for one. I’m not at all talking…
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Message-Tagged
by Rhonda Rhea @RhondaRhea Have you ever been tagged—maybe trapped—in a group text? You’re begging your phone. Please, not one more notification. And your phone answers with: zzzzzt. Even worse, you go to bed early while the other 30 in your group have a night owl session. Get up the next…
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A Work Turn-Over
by Rhonda Rhea @RhondaRhea Hear me out. A blanket fort. Only instead of blankets, puff pastry. Slumber party—and in the morning? Turnovers! I’d work on that fort. I came up with this idea while pondering whether there is anything in the world that would not be better with puff pastry on…
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Firing Up the Remembering
by Rhonda Rhea @RhondaRhea I’ve probably told you what a terrible memory I have, right? Or did I forget? The good news is that I did remember to buy the brain-boosting, memory-juicing supplements. Now if I can only remember to take them. Do people still tie a string around a finger…
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Courage by the Load
by Rhonda Rhea @RhondaRhea Sort it. Wash it. Fold it. Hang it. Repeat it, repeat it, repeat it, repeat it…infinitum. Statistics suggest we spend 40 minutes or so per day on laundry-related tasks. And I don’t have extra stats to back this up, but I’d estimate you add about three more…
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