Brain Swamp

10 Things

1. It has been four long months since my oldest son has been home. Mason got a summer job that landed him a permanent position in Seattle and he came home this weekend for a short visit. It’s impossible to hide my pride in him. All of my kids share my sense of humor, but [...]

To the Back of the Line

As I watch the story unfold about the Arkansas student Kymberly Wimberly I find myself uneasy about the facts being reported and how they’re slowly coming out, but I’m watching with great interest. The best possible newsworthy article I have seen thus far is this one by Jeneba Ghatt of The Washington Times. The short [...]

As If I’ve Never Talked About This Before

It’s safe to say the when you have a major event occur in your life you recall the details with tenacious clarity. When my friends tell me stories of the important things in their lives they do so in just that manner. There isn’t always a lot of fuzziness to their memory unless it’s particularly [...]

A Collision of Pretty

Sometimes my worlds collide and I’m not even paying attention when they do. Things will be happening, life will be moving on as it does, and then I stop for a brief moment to realize that it’s all really an amalgamation of the very same theme. When they fuse and I actually pause long enough [...]

An Update Wouldn’t Kill Me

I took way more time off than I originally intended. I feel the need to apologize, especially for the three precious notecards I got in the mail and the silly amounts of Are You Okay? e-mails. There was also the great packages that arrived from Fluid Pudding and the Caffeinated Librarian with hand-sewn purple fingerless [...]

T Minus Oprah

Housekeeping 1. You may notice a newish ad over there on the side and that’s from the LG TextEd BlogHer Engagement Program that I’m participating in right now. It’s all about how parents deal with the issues that cell phone texting brings with it when coupled with the wonderfulness that is teenagedom. Basically, I am [...]

Daily Life

Motherhood. And Stuff. One of my greatest accomplishments in life are how my children turned out either despite me or, well… yeah. Despite me. But my friend and probably the person I talk about and link to more than anyone else lately, Karen, still asked me to be a part of The Motherhood Project. She [...]

La Cucaracha Is a Stupid Song

Somewhere out there, in this vast universe of ours, there is a woman getting all the good karma possible. She must be stealing it from me because I can’t believe sometimes how it all just rains shits in my life. Something fantastic will happen and then it seems to stop, back up like a garbage [...]

This Started Out Completely Differently

My great niece who kept trying to take a nap in a roomful of people. She was folding back the rug and taking a couch pillow to get comfortable. Mallory was highly amused by this and Mason was just trying to get goofy in my photos. My laptop, the one issued to me by the [...]

Numerically Speaking, This Works

There’s no easy way to sum up the events in my life lately other than by numbering them because if I even attempted to put them in narrative form the jumbled mess would betray my ability to use paragraphs and then my former English professors would turn over in their graves (oh, I hope they’re [...]

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