Today I was interviewed by KVOA-4 in the Safeway parking lot. The subject: what is challenging about disciplining your children? Of course I took a moment to rant about how unsupportive and critical we are of parents as a society in general. The reporter gently redirected me, saying, “What about your own children?” and I tried to give a good response. I especially tried not to think about the large zit right between my eyebrows, or that I had again run out of the house with my hair pulled into a rough ponytail and with a milk stain on my shirt. Probably it made me look authentic, you know, like a real mom. Who knows? At least I wasn’t in front of the trailer in a Kiss t-shirt and no bra, talking about the twister and how it done picked up the trailer and took it away near a half-mile, but we did find gramma’s t.v. and it weren’t even broke.
So, you know, my 15 minutes of fame? It could be worse.
However, I did get photographed by the newspaper earlier this summer. I played Trelawney for the library’s Harry Potter party the day before the book came out. I had a lot of fun being overly dramatic and reading lots of silly predictions (”I predict your hamster will have terrible gas and blow up the size of a balloon!”). When your audience is under 10, it’s easy to get a lot of laughs.
Anyway, we were featured in a full, center-page spread, which everyone thought I should keep a copy of but I somehow didn’t. I did find a photograph, however, featured on the website, and the article is still up here. Here I am, in my goofy glory:
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