An Open Letter To My Blog
Dear Blog: I miss you. Once upon a time I had dreams that we were going to be famous, you and I. It was all planned […]
Patience
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 […]
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' […]
Ummmm So. A Bit Non-Post-y Here Today. Wanna Be My Therapist?
Doodz. Huz got back from China on Friday. I spent the day running like the proverbial chicken Saturday. Threw my back out Sunday. Guests coming […]
Nosy Machines Are Turning Me Into An Introvert.
I used to be an extrovert. Yeah yeah, stop snorting, all y'all dudes and dudettes who know me. It's true. I USED to be an […]
Mountain Fire! Something to Write a Story Around
We've been living in the shadow of a blazing mountain this week. I am lucky to be far enough away not to be too worried […]
Hi. I’m Mr. FatBrain’s Mom.
Littlest Dude when he was Even Littler Dude I'm sitting here watching my littlest dude trying to jam a rod between the wheels of his […]
Wait! Come Back! That Growing Up Thing Kids Do.
I'm spending the day–and much of next week–sending my peeps off to various camps and cousin visits and waving Oldest Child back to college after […]
Mrs. Perfect-Pants and the School Seminar of Doom
I'm looking at putting my kid in a private school next year because frankly, public school, bless its stoic heart, has failed him. Or at […]