My wedding anniversary is coming up and I was doing some reminiscing when I realized a harsh truth. I think I was a bridezilla. This thought was very upsetting to me because for years I […]
Tag: family
I Gave Christmas the Finger
Yeah, I know Christmas is over. The holidays are kaput. We’ve all moved on. Even our New Year resolutions are feeling a bit stale. But alas, for me the yuletide holidays have yet to take […]
Dear Snarky – My Adult Daughter is Butting Into My Marriage
Dear Snarky, My husband and I are retired. We are both in our early 60s. Because we spend a lot of time together due to being retired, we decided last year to take separate vacations. […]
Dear Snarky – I’m Upset that My Pregnant Daughter is Refusing to Tell Me her Baby’s Name
Dear Snarky,I’m having a terrible time dealing with the fact that my oldest daughter is expecting her first baby within the next month and has REFUSED to give up the baby’s name. She “claims” it’s […]
My Mom Is Dating My Ex-Husband’s Father
Dear Snarky, I just found out my mother has started dating my ex-husbands father and I’m disgusted and so angry. My ex and his family dragged me through the mud in our divorce. It was […]
This Geriatric Mom Can Still Spin a Tale
I’m an older parent. As in when my first child was born AMA was written on my medical chart. This didn’t stand for the American Medical Association, which I think one would logically assume, but “Advanced […]
New Do, New You
I don’t consider myself a vain person. Of course, vanity is relative. For one person being vain may mean owning a tube of lipstick. For someone else excessive vanity could equal getting a deep plane […]
Dear Snarky – My Perfect Divorce is in Jeopardy
Dear Snarky, My ex-husband of seven years has just gotten engaged. I’m happy for him because we’ve been divorced for a long time. What I want to talk to you about is his fiancé. We […]
Going on a Vacation When You Find Humanity Annoying
Alas, I’m still blabbing about my vacation. It’s not that I even want to be talking about it. But people have asked me questions and I feel like it would be ungracious of me not […]
Dear Snarky – Baby Name Nightmare
Dear Snarky, My mother-in-law is messing with my pre-school daughter’s mind and I don’t like it. Since the day my daughter was born my mother-in-law has been angry that we named her after my mother […]
The Pressure to Create the Perfect Pandemic Holiday in 2020
It’s bad when it’s not even Thanksgiving yet and I feel very, very, late to the Christmas party. I get it, I really do, in the third wave of a pandemic “we need a little […]
It’s All About the Flour Power
Well, this couldn’t suck more could it? Yes, I get it things could be worse, much worse. So, slow your roll on sending me that email. But in terms of things being suck worthy I’m […]
Vacationing With Teens – What No One Tells You
It might seem like vacationing with your teenage children would be a lark, a breeze, perhaps even one of those golden moments in time when your joyous week of togetherness manifest into familial bonding heretofore […]
Admit it – We’ve All Wanted to Escape From Our Family on Thanksgiving
And now for something to make me really unpopular . . . I’m going to confess that I don’t get what all the fuss is about regarding having to work on Thanksgiving. Right now, all […]
Dear Snarky – Unwanted Parenting Advice
Dear Snarky, I am this close to punching my sister-in-law! We just got back from a family reunion and all she did was correct every child’s behavior but her own. She even went so far […]
Snarky in the Suburbs 