Keeping Your Kids Out
Turi Ryder's "She Said What?" Podcast
Strategies for keeping your adult children from moving back in, including cinder block. Daddy long legs, worms, centipedes, and axolotyl lizards, oh my. How to delete a recurring nightmare from your consciousness.
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The End Times
Turi Ryder's "She Said What?" Podcast
More reasons to lie to your spouse. Religion can save you from household drudgery. Marci contemplates blood in IMAX. An ample obsequious Alexa in every room. Education, Home Depot, and the baked potato.
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Make Your Spouse the Mean One
Turi Ryder's "She Said What?" Podcast
“BCE”—before cellphones existed. Nice people make Turi look bad. When your spouse manipulates to make you manipulative. The non-shocking shock collar. The eternal conversation between mothers of kids behaving badly. When you are still punk. The unexpected sea chanty.
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Surviving the City Bus
Turi Ryder's "She Said What?" Podcast
Marci’s personal “Burning Man” is causing her to reevaluate mountain living. What you can watch with a TV antenna. Turi’s long, garlicky, painful busride: lessons learned.
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Evacuate the Cats
Turi Ryder's "She Said What?" Podcast
Marci is looking for safety as Arizona burns, and she may need to pick up a couple of hundred cats. There are the realistically phobic people, and the nut jobs and paranoics. You can find out who is who on social media.Turi is cautioned never to watch Game of Thrones. Fireworks in a hazard zone. Pickpocketing—a national sport. Fear of mascots.
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How to Scare a Sportswriter
Turi Ryder's "She Said What?" Podcast
The longer something has not been working, the better you feel when you find out you didn’t break it. A room full of sports writers, and a moment of silence.
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Rattlesnakes, Dogs, and Feral Pigs
Turi Ryder's "She Said What?" Podcast
Rattlesnakes are all over Marci’s neighborhood. There’s a plan for that. Disgusting things you probably never thought dogs could do. Disgusting things you probably never thought pigs could do.
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Woo Woo Science
Turi Ryder's "She Said What?" Podcast
Marci demonstrates the unusual value and properties of childproof caps, smartphones, and Skin-So-Soft. That friend who sends you articles about woo-woo faux science, and one of the hocus pocus queens leaves for an alternate dimension. Or maybe just leaves.
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Diapers
Turi Ryder's "She Said What?" Podcast
Marci has been caring for a toddler…a toddler who thinks diaper training is a game. We’ve all been there, and some of us (including even ourselves and perhaps some famous people) don’t seem to have fully solved the problem.
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Lord of the Audiobook
Turi Ryder's "She Said What?" Podcast
It takes a rabbit to catch Marci’s dog. New rural neighbors with loud radios and a backhoe. Choosing pets and husbands for looks, or, the every-six-year haircut. Audio books are NOT efficient (don’t believe anyone who tells you “I get so much done…”) No use for “Catcher in the Rye.” More use for “Lord of the Flie.” Marci likes “Justice Judy.”
info_outlineMarci’s neighboring mountain is in flames (nobody is hurt) with extremely inconvenient results. Wildlife hits the ground. The blended worm. Biology you’ve forgotten. What not to have outside your expensive store. The “Most Oblivious Partner” contest announcement (and why we’re holding one.)