Laura on Life: Rope Swings & Flying Potatoes

My husband is part genius, and part closet redneck.  He’s kind of a cross between Bill Nye the Science Guy and Larry the Cable Guy...
Oct 29, 2007

Laura on Life: Legos Are The Enemy

Red, white and blue stand for freedom in these United States.  Legos may be mostly red, white and blue (with a touch of yellow, black and grey), but… it’s a cover.  I live in a war-zone called Lego-ville...
Oct 19, 2007

Laura on Life: Bullies and Super Soakers

Sixth grade is the equivalent of boot camp for many students.  There are so many hormones attacking these receptive bodies that it truly is a wonder that any of them make it out alive...
Oct 9, 2007

Laura on Life: My Daughter

Out of five children, I only have one girl.  She is the reason that I’m not stark raving mad...
Sep 17, 2007

Laura on Life: Dangerous Jewelry

To all the women who can wear gorgeous jewelry that hangs down to your navel and dangles, sparkling from your ears:  I hate you...
Sep 11, 2007

Laura on Life: I'm Not Complaining

I actually got out of the house for a while this weekend and a bad day outside the house still beats a good day inside the house...
Aug 21, 2007

Laura on Life: Tooth Fairy Vengeance

There was a period of about three or four years, in my childhood, when the Tooth Fairy came to visit our house on a very frequent basis...
Aug 14, 2007

Laura on Life: Hearing Loss

If you’ve got children and you haven’t bought a DVD player for your minivan, you have no idea how much peace and quiet you are missing...
Aug 10, 2007

Laura on Life: Rock, Paper, Scissors

Rock, paper, scissors championship.  Only in America ...
Jul 26, 2007

Laura on Life: Collectively Speaking

We started off collecting children.  It was not a hobby we necessarily pursued with enthusiasm, but up until the time we figured out what caused them, we collected five of them...
Jul 17, 2007

Laura on Life: Caller ID is for Spies

Caller ID is the original spy-tool.  It was never patented as such, but I’ll bet James Bond would have used it if he had it...
Jul 10, 2007

Laura on Life: Flight Of The Fly

Ah, daylight.  Now I can get around without flying into a wall.  The night before, I flew into a bedroom because that was the only light to be found...
Jun 29, 2007

Laura on Life: Scar Wars

It never fails.  When you’re in a group of people and someone mentions a bandage on someone else’s person, there ensues a discussion about every injury these people have ever had.  I like to call these discussions Scar Wars...
Jun 19, 2007

Household Hilarity: Corn Dogs and Dust Bunnies

Nationally, self-syndicated humor columnist and Dawson Times columnist, Laura Snyder, has released her second book entitled, Laura On Life: Corn Dogs and Dust Bunnies...
Jun 14, 2007

Laura on Life: A Five Year Old Morning

A morning in the life of a five-year old starts really early… unless it’s a school day.  If it’s a school day, he’s “too tired to rise and shine...
Jun 12, 2007