In Which JK Rowling’s THE CASUAL VACANCY Freaks Me Out a Little
Hello my dear LifeBits Readers! Yesterday a Very Big Thing transpired in the literary world. JK Rowling (choirs of angels singing), author of the delightfully […]
Month: September 2012
Fear Not the Apocalypse, For I Have Beans
Pretend like the apocalypse happens. And then pretend that your whole house collapses into the dust and all you have left is a sack of […]
History Will Show … er, Never Mind
My littlest dude recently did a big ol' history project in which he had to research five explorers and make Explorer Trading Cards out of […]
New State Bird Makes Life on the Road Interesting
Our state bird has been changed to the Orange Tipped Construction Cone. It's true. And the state flower? The Skid Steer Loader. I'm thinking it […]
Where There’s Smoke There’s… Yawn
Is there any irony in throwing your tri-tip steak into the smoker for dinner while the haze from a SERIOUSLY lingering mountain fire lounges in […]
The German Shepherd of Death Next Door (Presidential Breed)
(So this is not really a German Shepherd. But it is a dog. Work with me here.) When I was a kid we spent about […]
Hello, Mr. Hashimoto? I’ve Got Something That Belongs To You
So I had some blood drawn a little while back and sent off to a laboratory to see if there was anything funky hanging out […]
My Webelos Tell a Twisted Tale: The Two Pigs & Hambo Versus The Big Bad Wolf
Ladies and Gentlemen! Today we bring you my Webelos den, passing off a Communications Activity Badge! As part of that badge the boys had to […]
Lord Baden-Powell and Me, We’re like THIS
I don't get scouting. Like, my little artsy-fartsy-Air-Force-bratsy-theater-girl-StayAtHomeMomma-WeirdFashionista-TravelerWoman-WriterChick-Who-Used-to-Dance brain cannot wrap itself around the whole Boy Scout-thing. Particularly Webelos. *collective gasp from Badan-Powell aficionados and […]
In Search of a Left Brain
Frits – www.hikingartist.com My storage room is a swirling vortex of doom. As is my closet. And my office. And my office closet. My kids' […]