Bad movie moms? There are a lot of them, which makes these some of the worst Mother's Day movies. Or maybe they are the best Mother's Day movies? After all, these are all great movies, and your mother is bound to look wonderful by comparison to the bad moms portraying in these films. Would you … Continue reading Worst Mother’s Day movies: 7 really bad movie moms
Month: May 2013
I saw Lenore Skenazy, author of Free Range Kids, speak last night at the Families Together Cooperative Nursery School in Edgewater. (The event was arranged by fellow ChicagoNow blogger Christine Whitley.) Lenore Skenazy is smart, funny and appears in dozens of pages of search results for the term "America's Worst Mom." She earned this dubious … Continue reading Free Range Kids’ Lenore Skenazy reminds me of my independent childhood
What is PowerPoint Karaoke? Unlike regular karaoke where people attempt to sing songs that are probably familiar to them, at PowerPoint Karaoke--otherwise known as Battledecks--a person has to present a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation that he or she has never seen before, ideally with hilarious results. According to Wikipedia, PowerPoint Karaoke originated in Berlin in 2006. … Continue reading Have you heard of PowerPoint Karaoke?
Last night was a beautiful warm night in Chicago. My husband and I took advantage of the warm weather to sit on our back porch, drink beer, stare at our phones and talk about electronic content management solutions. (You thought we were pretty cool until I got to those last two items, didn't you?) A … Continue reading 20 things to do on warm nights in Chicago besides shoot people
Kim Z. Dale 