Well That Was Different: Living the Divorce I Never Wanted, and Being Just Fine.
My goodness, it’s been a while. I mean . . . I can’t believe I’m back here. Never thought I’d see this place again. And […]
Family Bits
Pencil Boxes in my Shopping Cart? ALREADY?
The other day a friend of mine posted on Facebook that she knows Fall is coming when she dons a sweatshirt and pulls out the hot chocolate. Wha? It's […]
Motherhood-Induced A.D.D.
Dudes. I need a new brain. One that can multitask. I don't mean multitask as in: "Let's see. Gotta take kid1 to the eye […]
On Friends and Friend-i-ness and What I Learned from my Kid
Yesterday I watched my kid get up and give a little farewell-type speech in our church (because she is leaving to distant shores for quite […]
Time to Cop and Attitude of Gratitude and Pie
So like ten minutes ago I was trotting around after my little trick or treater—who went as a dead snowboarder, thank you very much. And […]
A Treatise on Sweaters
artwork by frits ahlefeldt at hikingartist.com Do you know what my favorite word in the English language is? "Sweater." Yep. Love it. Why? Well, first […]
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' […]
Bugs. Spiders. Death to Them.
My last house–which was not in my current homey Mayberry-esque town– was, I think, built on an old Indian cricket graveyard. We moved into our […]
My Parenting Understudy
You know what's sad? It's when your college kid comes back home for a semester and does a better job parenting her siblings than you do. […]
Support Your Kid With Your Face. And the Rest of You. Especially Olympians.
http://www.flickr.com/people/12982516@N02 I don't know about y'all dudes, but I'm an Olympics freak. I mean, I'm not completely addicted. I do go about my day. But […]