I thought it might be worth mentioning that not only do I embarrass myself privately with activities like hawking a loogie on my calf, I also go out of my way to embarrass myself publicly and apparently at least one of my children has the ability to do the same.

I know, I know, you wish you were a part of my family. Who doesn’t? Opportunities for humility abound around here!

If you’d like to pull a copy-cat maneuver, I’ll tell you the secret to putting your…

Do you watch the Olympics and wonder where you fall on the spectrum of exceptionalism?

I do.

Not that there’s a lot of attraction for me in prancing around in a bedazzled gymnastics leotard or running, running, running in circles around an arena for 30+ minutes (athletics not being my strong calling in life), but there is an utter fascination I have for watching a fellow human being excel to the level of an Olympian.

In my own arena I am…

Well, you guys are about the coolest people ever.

Not only have you given me some good jokes to go on, I’ve also found some websites with enough jokes to fill my kids heads for a year!

Since I have had two jokes, total, in my comic repretiore up until today, I’m feeling pretty good about being able to teach the girls some new stuff that will – hopefully! – get our bed time routine a little more entertaining.

My jokes up until…

Once upon a time, in a galaxy far, far away, in the time before I knew my husband and my children were just a twinkle in my eye, I dated a guy.

Let’s call him Mike.

Mike was a decent guy and we dated for quite a while. One thing about him, though, whenever Mike got together with his buddies for a fun night out they went to a little strip club they called “the Vu.”

“It’s just a fun place to go, and it’s kind of cool because we can get in even…