Bitchin Suburbia

I’m working on a new document for our country, and I’m going to call it, “The Declaration of Interdependence.” Forget the current Declaration of Independence. I mean, let’s […]

Summer is heating up, and usually I like to write about mundane things like staycations or how to take a family vacation or unplugging for a little true R&R. […]

Has this ever happened to you? You glance down at your email and see a “friend request” from Facebook. You think to yourself, “that’s nice, someone wants to […]

Have you seen the one about the type-A, helicopter parent who realizes that despite her best intentions, things are not always perfect for her kids? And worse, sometimes […]

Life is a pickle on your plate. Let me explain: I’m obsessed with really good pickles. That sour snap is something that I’ve loved since I was a […]

Step 1: Get a body (if you don’t already have one). Step 2: Buy a bikini (if you don’t already have one). Step 3: Put the bikini on […]

I love the F word. In fact, I love all words that start with F. Well, mostly all of them. I am very honestly working on the word “fifty,” […]

This morning when I logged into my email, there was no mail. More concisely, when I tried to click on anything in my inbox, I got the message, […]

When I started the Bitch’in Challenge three weeks ago, I laid down the gauntlet and dared you to join me in working on ONE THING about yourself that […]

When I started blogging 4 1/2 years ago as your friendly neighborhood Bitch’in Suburbia, I was doing it out of an urge to up my creativity ante. It […]

Fifty Shades of Grey has unleashed a genre of female-oriented lit that is guaranteed to bring us to our collective knees, dominating the media and our oh-so-fertile imaginations. […]

“I’m burnt out,” my daughter said to me the other day as we hurled down the freeway to her second softball practice of the day. I glanced at […]