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There are three guitars strewn around the living room. My band rehearsal ran late and I'm trying to adjust to life at warp speed, because in five minutes the kids will blast through the door.

I play in Housewives on Prozac with four other women. We're all at different stages of relationships, but I'm the only one who's single with four kids. 

Never mind that multi-tasking in my house means every pot in the kitchen is blackened on the bottom.

There's a dangerous pattern developing. Meals keep getting started and end up on fire. Dogs are left outside while the sun goes down. And I'm especially jammed when it comes to any kind of a personal life.

Summer was all about bliss. So this is a good time to ask, Where the heck is the sanity?

I admit it helps to burn off steam by turning things into loud songs. Housewives on Prozac has played PTA fundraisers and large-scale stadium gigs. We did the theme song for the Liberty Girls basketball team at Madison Square Garden.

We've been playing together for 10 years and find tremendous solace and humor in each other. I'm the lead singer, and do most of the song writing.  

Each of the girls brings something unique to the project musically speaking, but, even more, they have been my steadfast friends through all the ups and downs of parenthood, separation, and divorce.

Look at the music from 1997 to 1999, with songs like "BabySlave" and "Rich Man Blues." Then there was a progression in 2000 to "Chemotherapy" and "Two Little Pills." By 2002, we were cultivating our own little cult hits with things like "Eat Your Damn Spaghetti" and "Fuzzy Slippers," and two years ago it was "The Heart Wants What the Heart Wants" and "We're All a Little Crazy."

We're about to release a new single called "Mama Is a Rock Star." Oh, and did I mention our single "Mrs. President"? Too bad that one didn't work out, although we did a hot little video that ran up some numbers on YouTube.

Speaking of politics. That Sarah Palin is something else, huh? She's cute, pops out babies without letting her staff know she's pregnant, shoots moose in her spare time, runs for vice president and stays married.

I bet she doesn't even burn dinner.

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