Darcy Perdu

Darcy Perdu loves to pull up a bar stool and swap hilarious stories with her friends about embarrassing kids, exasperating coworkers, vexing relationships, and the ever-perplexing public. Darcy shares her bodacious blunders and funny stories at So Then Stories.com and invites you to share yours too! She won 1st Place in the Nat. Society of Newspaper Columnists competition (Blog Category under 100,000 monthly visitors) for 2014 – and won 2 Humor VOTY Awards at BlogHer in 2103 & 2014. She was named Humor Writer of August 2014 by Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop. So pull up a bar stool and start laughing!

So then…my grinning tween daughter Chloe says, “Oh, Mom, you’re so aDORable!” (a bit patronizingly, if you ask me) “What? I am not!” I say. “I’m a ‘hip, cool, with it’ Mom!” She laughs. “Mom, the very fact that you used those terms means you are anything but those things.” Lately I feel my …

How Cool I Am vs. How Cool My TWEEN Thinks I Am