A Mother’s Day Cliche

    By: Mary Fran Bontempo To hear an audio version of this post, click the play arrow below. Little kids, little problems. Big kids, big problems. When my kids were little and one was crying and bleeding with a boo-boo, another was having an “accident” just after being dressed for church and the third was telling me he had to create a model of the solar system for school the next day, [...]

2018-10-30T09:47:42-04:00May 7th, 2013|0 Comments

Facebook’s Gift to Mothers

    By: Mary Fran Bontempo To hear an audio version of this post, click the play arrow below. Thank you, Mark Zuckerberg. Equally lauded as the best thing since ice cream and reviled as the downfall of civilization, Facebook, Zuckerberg’s contribution to society, inspires nothing if not intense emotion, which is weird since Zuckerberg himself kind of looks and acts like an animatronic Disney robot. I’ve mostly landed on the “Facebook is [...]

2018-10-30T09:47:53-04:00April 30th, 2013|0 Comments

Glad to De-Stuff–Almost

  By: Mary Fran Bontempo We're bursting at the seams. It's not news that the Bontempo household is stuffed. Stuffed full of the stuff that comes with five adults living in a domicile holding the accumulated lifetime belongings of those five people. My husband and I raised our children here, so there's never been the clearing out that comes with a move; we've got 28 years worth of our children's detritus here along [...]

2018-10-30T09:48:00-04:00April 23rd, 2013|0 Comments

The Naked Castaway–A “Cheeky” Starring Role

  By: Mary Fran Bontempo To hear an audio version of this post, click the play arrow below. Well, now I’ve seen everything. And I mean that literally. Last Sunday, my husband and I were treated to the repeated sight of a pair of naked, male butt cheeks staring at us from our family room’s television screen. The bum in question paraded about, occasionally jumping or squatting for almost an hour. No, we [...]

2018-10-30T09:48:04-04:00April 17th, 2013|0 Comments

Saying a Woman Looks Attractive? Shame on You!

  By: Mary Fran Bontempo To hear an audio version of this post, click the play arrow below.   Ladies, the next time a man pays you a compliment on your looks, prepare to be insulted. Because, after all, if a guy says you're attractive, he's also implying that you have no other redeemable qualities, you're a dope and you're good for nothing but serving as eye candy. At least, that's what some [...]

2018-10-30T09:48:08-04:00April 9th, 2013|0 Comments
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