Wish I Had a Cow
And not only that–I wish I knew what to do with it. Self-sufficiency sounds grand. Especially in today's world. I'd love to be able […]
Articles by Janiel
Little Body, Big Attitude. Tuesdays With My Boy.
You know, you go along in life thinking your kids aren’t absorbing things, or noticing things, or caring about things. It’s easy to think your […]
What Did I Do With That One Thing?
Here’s the deal. The human brain, insofar as we know, is finite. It doesn’t ooze out of our ears and go on forever. It doesn’t […]
The Brain to Page Differential
When I was six my family moved to a forested home in Maryland, from Albuquerque, New Mexico. The difference between the fields of trees that […]
Freedom of Restraint
You know when you’re a kid and your mom gets roses from your dad because its their anniversary, or he’s trying to figure out what […]
That Thing I Do. And a Lot of Other People Do Too.
I am writing a novel.I know.My originality stuns me. 5-10% of people who start writing a novel finish it.40-50% of people who start college finish […]
So Like, Here’s What I Totally Did Today
I’m thinking that my blog must be boring as snot (which, as we all know, is pretty boring) because I don’t do the whole slice-of-life-thing […]
Support Your Local Sheriff. And Stuff.
Tonight I observed an annual tradition in the Miller home: Traffic School. It was so festive! The lights were on. Chairs lined up perfectly. The […]
Never Underestimate the Power of a Pancake
I grew up eating Sunday Dinner. Church lasted for about eight hundred hours back then. I spent most of it swinging my feet, watching flies […]
A Good Thing to Remember As You Forge Ahead.
“When you have come to the edge of all light that you know and are about to drop off into the darkness of the unknown, […]