My mom would hand us math workbooks to occupy us during car rides the way other parents hand their kids Pop Tarts or carrot sticks.

"I'm not a great cook," she said. "' the Good-Enough Mother Cookbook, 'which I'm working on, is going to be heavy on pop tarts and starches."

That doesn’t mean you have to tell us all about who you’re sleeping with or those Pop Tarts you shoplifted in the third grade — but you do need to be a real person in your online exploits.