Erica Reitman, Parenting Columnist?

I ran into the recently axed Smartmom, Louise Crawford in front of PS 321 the other day and we discussed her upcoming road trip to drop off her son at college in Chicago, me having weathered the very same ride just last week when my aunt passed away. Did you know, by the way, that Ohio (NOT NYC) is the bedbug capitol of the US of A? We did not discuss the demise of her Brooklyn Paper column or speak in the third person.

I like Louise. I even liked her edgy writers convention picks. But, I laughed out loud when I saw that the L Magazine (which, btw, i thought was a lesbianic publication), wrote an obituary to Smartmom's column, enshrining it as "the worst column in the history of local papers" and calling for our great FIPS vixen to take over.

Ha!

Only if she gets to write in the "royal we" and has to write actual, real life  parenting advice!

Personally, my vote goes to ME. Or, if not, that hilarious mom run amok, who I have already told Erica is surely her breeder soulmate.