Comments on: Babies Don’t Make Pie: A Recipe For Adulthood.

By: Thalia

Thalia — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 23:49:41 +0000

Yup, it’s amazing how old we’ve all got without noticing.

I made those cookies too but didn’t give them a special name. early failure of the imagination *sigh*

So how was the infertile meet?

By: Julia S

Julia S — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 18:24:14 +0000

This seems like the most expedient way to get your attention although it has nothing to do with pie and even less with child blacksmithery…

could you email me your telephone number, quickly, please?

By: Nico

Nico — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 04:29:50 +0000

I don’t think of myself as a grown-up either. I definitely still call myself and my friends ‘girls’. It’s funny, coz in high school, even college kids seemed so old…

By: pixi

pixi — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 00:02:00 +0000

I had to work at patching my credit after being pretty irresponsible in my 20′s and early 30′s. Thankfully, it’s in good shape now. Paying bills is a drag, but having bad credit is an even bigger drag. It feels good not to be a complete loser anymore – at least not in that respect!

By: roo

roo — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 14:03:31 +0000

Wait. How do I file taxes for my freelance jobs?

Ugh. I’m figuring out how to handle my money like a grown-up (finally), but years of being scared to even check to see what was in my checking account because I knew it wasn’t enough have left their mark on my psyche. I’d much rather bake instead.

By: T

Thu, 01 Dec 2005 18:37:55 +0000

Being an adult is overrated. Are we all getting apple pies for the holiday’s?

By: April

April — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 16:33:24 +0000

I positively love your writing.

This was a beautiful post.

By: Molly

Molly — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 15:24:37 +0000

You know what’s strange to me? The fact that I am, for all intents and purposes, a woman. Like, when you hear the evening newscasters say something horrible like “A 19-year-old woman drowned earlier today after walking on to thin ice” (yes, I live in the Midwest), it sounds normal. Yet, when I think of myself, I think of myself as a “girl,” for some reason. If one of my close friends described me, they’d probably say, “Yeah, she’s that short red-headed girl, real smartass, etc.” How old does someone have to be before they hit the “woman” cut off?

By: TB

TB — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 14:24:02 +0000

This is lovely. And I can completely relate to the bit about the extra bank fees when you bounce a check. I asked that question too many times myself when I was my 20′s.
No matter how adult I feel, some things, like IRAs will always be a mystery to me.

By: Mary Scarlet

Mary Scarlet — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 13:42:09 +0000

I don’t think I’ve crossed the line yet (my husband says I’d make a great preteen boy because of all the talking about dooky and so forth). I am very impressed by the getting out of debt. I still haven’t managed to do that, and I definitely can’t make an apple pie. One day you’ll be making that pie for your kids, I know it. They’ll love eating those peels.