Have you ever been part of one of those lovely drive-by remarks mothers launch in public? They seem innocent enough to a casual bystander, but it’s really a passive-aggressive dig and you know it in your gut. I was recently on the receiving end of a small dig.

Here’s an example for the uninitiated: One […]

“Does President Obama kill babies?”

“Hmmm?” I wasn’t sure I heard Tommy right. I was folding laundry, my mind in the zone of shake, smooth, fold, fold, stack.

“Does President Obama kill babies?”

I heard.

“Where did you hear that?”

“At school.”

“Who told you that?” I couldn’t repeat what he said. […]