Gently Wash and Pat Dry
On an early episode of the TV show The West Wing, Josh steps in to do a press conference after White House Press Secretary C.J. Cregg has emergency root canal and can’t speak properly (in one of Allison Janney’s more hilarious performances). Josh starts by asking a reporter if he really wants his one permitted question to be “that stupid,” and it goes downhill from there. If you’ve got three minutes, it’s worth a look . I keep trying to start this blog and asking myself, do I really want my first post to be that stupid? I’m struggling to choose a topic. I’d like it to be neither boring nor controversial. I asked my eleven-year-old, and he thinks that as a stay-at-home/work-at-home mom, I should start with parenting; parenting wasn’t even on my list of twenty-six possible article topics! I mean, does parenting really need its own category? It’s as inextricably linked with my identity as it is entwined with several of my brainstormed blog ideas—rural life, getting older, cook...