January 2011
11 posts
I'm reading this while my kid is watching teevee. ... →
It's 5pm. Have you hugged your kid today?
So I was going to write about wanting a wig today, but I changed my mind.
I was sitting in a meeting this week, which for me are still kind of fun being new to the office and all. One of the gals there, a senior manager, asked where “Whatsherface, you know, the new girl” was. At first I thought it was me she was describing. Jesus, am I really that invisible? Turns out she was...
That's a crock of Santa Fe Chicken. →
Ode to a Pot Named Crock.
My husband and I have a division of labor that has worked extremely well in our just shy of ten year marriage. Style and substance. He does substance, I do style. Surprisingly, it works out to be pretty equitable. Substance consists of food, style consists of everything else: cleaning, decor, laundry, the comforts of home. We are like a fine oiled machine when hosting a party. I am a gal...
What's a Mom to do?
My son, Jay, just turned two. He is a peach. Cute as a button, smart as a whip. No, really. He knows about twenty different species of dinosaurs. Like Lilliansternus, which to me sounds like the name of a 1930s stage actress. For some reason I dress him like a little accountant, probably because he’s always struck me as kind of a middle aged man. I don’t know why. My point is I...
What's with the Mary Tyler Moore reference?
A good question. She’s always been an icon for me. I grew up watching her on Dick Van Dyke, then her own show. It was the 70s, I was just a kid, but here was this woman whose hair got smaller as she aged. She was on her own, in control, independent, motivated, ambitious, self-effacing. All good things. As a somewhat stodgy 41 year old woman, I think that’s a pretty amazing role...
Oh, yeah, this is the charity I run. →
Donna’s Good Things is committed to providing joyful opportunities for kids facing adversity, be it economic, familial, social or health related. We fund a dance scholarship, purchase cool electronic gadgets for kids in cancer treatment, and host an annual New Year’s Eve party for the oncology unit at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago. It is how we honor and now parent...
And so it starts.
That’s me: Mary Tyler Mom. A forty-one year old working mom with a sweet child, loving and handsome husband, artsy and unpretentious home, living in the big midwestern metropolis of Chicago, who thinks she just might make it after all. Or hopes so.
I’ve been writing an online journal since March 2007 through www.caringbridge.org/visit/donnaquirkehornik. Initially it was with...
