Safety First

Parents are often unaware their kids' favorite toy presents a choking hazard if parts come loose and get into the wrong mouth. Almost every day something, usually a knick-knack from Target purchased under intense Toddler Pressure while trying to find tube socks, is declared unsafe and recalled. We might hear about it on the news or read it in a magazine months after the recall has been announced. Sometimes we don't hear about it at all.

Even if you have no little ones running around, you'd still want to know immediately if your stove is about to explode. Right? Of course, right.

Visit the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission to sign up for email announcements. Yes, it's a free service and you will hear about the recall long before mainstream media decides to crawl out of Angelina Jolie's uterus and print something worthwhile.

And after posts about my breasts and tuchis, I know a thing or two about worthwhile writing.