Sunshine Delay I’ve been commuting from Cumming to Lawrenceville for three months now, since August. In the beginning, I noted the sun in my eyes as a minor annoyance, but it has progressively grown more intrusive. Since changing the clocks on Sunday for Daylight Savings, it’s been worse than ever...
Nov 9, 2007
Laura on Life: Traumatizing the Pack RatsAs soon as you throw something in the trash, you are going to need it. As a result a pack-rat never throws anything in the trash...
Aug 28, 2007
Laura on Life: Tooth Fairy VengeanceThere was a period of about three or four years, in my childhood, when the Tooth Fairy came to visit our house on a very frequent basis...
Aug 14, 2007
Laura on Life: Hearing LossIf you’ve got children and you haven’t bought a DVD player for your minivan, you have no idea how much peace and quiet you are missing...
Aug 10, 2007
Laura on Life: Rock, Paper, ScissorsRock, paper, scissors championship. Only in America ...
Jul 26, 2007
Laura on Life: Collectively SpeakingWe started off collecting children. It was not a hobby we necessarily pursued with enthusiasm, but up until the time we figured out what caused them, we collected five of them...
Jul 17, 2007
Laura on Life: Caller ID is for SpiesCaller ID is the original spy-tool. It was never patented as such, but I’ll bet James Bond would have used it if he had it...
Jul 3, 2007
Laura on Life: Flight Of The FlyAh, daylight. Now I can get around without flying into a wall. The night before, I flew into a bedroom because that was the only light to be found...
Jun 29, 2007
Laura on Life: Scar WarsIt never fails. When you’re in a group of people and someone mentions a bandage on someone else’s person, there ensues a discussion about every injury these people have ever had. I like to call these discussions Scar Wars...
Jun 19, 2007
Household Hilarity: Corn Dogs and Dust BunniesNationally, self-syndicated humor columnist, Laura Snyder, has released her second book entitled, Laura On Life: Corn Dogs and Dust Bunnies...
Jun 14, 2007
Laura on Life: A Five Year Old MorningA morning in the life of a five-year old starts really early… unless it’s a school day. If it’s a school day, he’s “too tired to rise and shine...
Jun 12, 2007
Laura on Life: A Slice of Diet HeavenI’m on a diet again. Well, still, actually. I’ve come to realize that once you are a certain age, your body refuses to act like it did when you were a teenager...
May 23, 2007
Laura on Life: So Much For The TromboneMy son is going into sixth grade next fall. This is the grade where they stop giving out treats when they’ve had a “good” day, and the students are now allowed to pick the “special classes” they want to take...
May 17, 2007
Laura on Life: A Cellmate Named BubbaI don’t know what started that boy out on a path of thievery, but I know I need to stop him before he becomes the cellmate of a bruiser named Bubba; the perennial inmate who asks Santa for a sweet little boy for Christmas every year...
May 11, 2007
Laura on Life: Mapping The UniverseIt is amazing to me when I get a tiny glimpse of how children must view the world...
Apr 25, 2007