This day is steeped in tradition.
In some parts of the country, it is known as Devil’s Night. Here it is called Angel’s Night.
Today is our Family Day. Three years ago today we opened our arms to Girl from the East, closed them around her slight frame and haven’t let go.
When we met her for [...]
I think I’ve mentioned before that I am not a morning person.
Whether or not I embrace the darkness before dawn, I have no choice most days. My Girl from the West starts school at 7 a.m. School is more than 25 miles away. We need to leave the house at 6 a.m. This means I [...]
It’s been a busy stretch, with many events converging upon a three-week period. I’m behind in my reading of other sites. I’m slow in developing posts. I have another award to acknowledge. I have outdoor chores and indoor duties. I have co-op preschool responsibilities and freelance work deadlines.
On the weekends, rather than play catch-up, I’ve [...]
with apologies to Jack Handy:
I think there should be rules for blogging. Like, if I read on your blog that every once in a while you slip into a wet suit, recline on a chaise longue and listen to “Madama Butterfly” while your Irish Setter licks your bare feet, I won’t mention it when I [...]
To complete the trio of awards bestowed upon me recently, here is the Honest Scrap award from Lorna the Bathtime Blogger.
Lorna passed this on to me for what she called “my heartfelt writing.”
Thank you, Lorna, for thinking so. I try.
Nevertheless. This meme requires me to do the unthinkable: list 10 honest things about myself.
Holy crap.
Well, since I’ve [...]
Blame it on a virus that zapped all my energy.
Blame it on a tight project deadline and a babysitter on vacation.
Blame it on watching three episodes in a row of “Six Feet Under” Season Four, including one in which the mortuary drains back up, spewing copious amounts of human blood onto the floors and up [...]
Today I provide for you two pictures to illustrate my post. It’s about my new glasses — the first prescription pair I’ve ever worn.
I consider these glasses — freakin’ progressive lenses, for god’s sake — the official end of my youth.
Friends on Facebook and in real life are always telling me: You haven’t changed one [...]
Years ago I wrote a piece for the local newspaper about the need for man purses. It received some attention. I had e-mails both praising and lambasting the man bag. My column made the rounds on the Internet.
The married women were all for it. The men in the newsroom railed against it, even the ones [...]
In the spirit of David Letterman, who seems to be embroiled in a bit of scandal, I offer you my Top 10 reasons why I haven’t been and may not be posting much in the next week or so:
10. The default font on my WordPress theme makes my eyes cross.
9. Our household Internet service is [...]
Fake Plastic Trees
Her green plastic watering can
For her fake Chinese rubber plant
In the fake plastic earth
That she bought from a rubber man
In a town full of rubber plans
To get rid of itself
It wears her out, it wears her out
It wears her out, it wears her out
She lives with a broken man
A cracked polystyrene man
Who [...]
