overheard: summer conversations
Posted on June 24th, 2013 by Amy Byrnes
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Amy is a humorist who writes about things like divorce, parenting slippery teenagers, mid-life dating (or lack thereof) and her irrational fear of tuna fish. A former journalist and online news editor, her personal essays have been featured in Family Circle magazine and on Scary Mommy and Grown and Flown. She told her story on stage of finding the courage to jump off the cliff of indecision into divorce at the 2015 production of Listen to Your Mother North Jersey and sits on the advisory board of Project Write Now in Red Bank, NJ. Amy has also appeared as a panelist on “MomsEveryday,” a syndicated, half-hour program airing in 55 television markets. When she’s not developing social media strategies and creating online content for her clients, Amy can be found Googling her next travel adventure and trying not to eat bread.
This morning, while sitting locked in my room atop my bed on a work conference call, I overheard the following shouted in the hallway: “Can you PLEASE stop shaving your armpits in the bathroom sink?”
Ah, summer.
Armpit hairs do not belong in the same place that we gargle and brush our teeth.