I’ve been away awhile, but steadily cooking up some fun tasty little items for you. To start with, in a few days my latest project will debut on iTunes. Not Your Mother’s Podcast will be just that, not your mothers. I’ve teamed up with two of my besties, Keili and Ashley, to bring you our comical, more than a little insane, take on life. As women in their thirties rapidly approaching their 4th decade, we realized we were all waiting for the same thing. When do you feel like a grown up?
My friends and I are still as silly as we were when we were in high school. If not maybe even more so, since with age comes something truly amazing. You don’t give a shit how ridiculous you are, and that is truly a blessing. Not Your Mother’s Podcast was born from an earlier idea of writing a three woman comedy show for the three of us, who find ourselves endlessly entertaining. Women who grew up in the age of Jake Ryan and Smurfs, The Lost Boys and Back to the Future. We wanted a platform and a playroom to have a great time, and give our listeners a place to go to get great recipes, parenting advice, movie reviews, as well as a reservation-free conversation about sex, sex, and more sex.
So for us, we barely feel like grownups even though we are all homeowners, Keili and Ashley are actually mothers, and we all pay taxes and vote in major elections. But grownups? Hmmm…
In the house I grew up in, in suburban
My dad and a few of the other neighborhood dads were constantly battling the wild vines that would hang down from the canopy of trees, often times choking out the wild dogwoods that were so beautiful in the springtime. I can remember him heading out there, decked out in his weekend clothes, gloves and clippers in hand to do battle against the encroaching vines. These were big mother vines, and I often entertained Tarzan like fantasies of swinging through the jungle, but my father wisely cautioned against this, knowing I would surely fall and then need some Bactine.
A few years ago, I was chatting with my Dad about this, and a sheepish look crept over his face when remembering it. He admitted that he had, on occasion, been known to take a swing from these very vines. My father, who was an executive for a Fortune 500 company, and the two dads on either side of us (lawyer and doctor respectively), while doing a little weekend warrior landscaping, were swinging from vines. Why? Because they were there.
These were grown ass men in their early thirties, yuppies in the perfect sense of this word. I love this. It makes me feel better to know that even though my Dad was a grownup, he still indulged his inner child enough to bring out his own Tarzan. Tarzan in deck shoes and a Polo T-shirt.
So now, when I find myself rocking out in my car to an unexpected Guns n Roses song (if Paradise City comes on, it is nearly impossible for me to ignore it), or smiling hugely when I stumble across an old Nancy Drew mystery in the boxes in my basement, I appreciate the fact that I barely feel like a grownup.
This is the spirit behind Not Your Mother’s Podcast, the idea that every mom and wife out there is still a giggly high school girl, who doesn’t want to bring up that question about blow jobs, but is so glad when someone else does. Give us a listen, download us and take us with you to the gym, we will try our best to make you giggle on the Treadmill.
In other news, I am still working on my 52 Week Book Challenge, and recently completed Fallen and Torment by Lauren Kate, and am in the middle of both Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell and Good In Bed by Jennifer Wiener, all of which I highly recommend. I am going to be asking for recs soon for your favorite chicklit/rom-com/adult contemporary/erotica books soon, so get ready!!
Watch my twitter feed (@alice_clayton) for the exact launch date for Not Your Mother’s Podcast, and follow us @NYMpodcast, as we will do our best to entertain you. For now, check out notyourmotherspodcast.com for info.
Stay young, stay silly, and go swing!
PS, Disney? No more movies like this, it simply isn’t fair.
