For the first time in two decades, I’m not experiencing a back-to-school moment. My last child graduated college in the spring and this means August is just another month for me. There’s no buying of […]
Category: Back to School Shopping
Dear Snarky – A Friend’s Prank Backfires
Dear Snarky, I live in a very small town and my family owns the only grocery store in the area. (You have to drive about 50 miles to get to a Walmart.) We work with […]
Back-to-School Blues
Back-to-school excitement really starts waning when you have teenagers. Don’t get me wrong I’m all hip hip hooray that school is in full swing, but what blows is that all the fun rituals you had […]
August – The Bipolar Month
I have a love hate relationship with the month of August. The hate comes, I think, from being water-logged. By now I have clocked so many hours in a pool or at a waterpark I […]
School Supplies + Tax Free Shopping = Cray X Cray
There are many different ways to approach shopping for school supplies. Some families order their bounty from the PTO. It’s a way to cross yet another fundraiser off the list. Others wait until after the […]
Snarky in the Suburbs 