Most of my days are spent thusly: I wake up and grab a cup of coffee, start rooting around the kitchen for breakfast, and then begin the ritual of taking out the carrying tray that I take up to my mother. Mornings are hard for her and I bring her food to her since it’s [...]
Summer madness is most definitely here and the bugs are out. Bugs love me. There is something magical and unicorn-like in my blood that makes them flock to me and stick their prickly things into my skin and feed off of me. One of my sons (and I can’t say which one) (even though I’m [...]
Here’s how this works: I pretend to be a real blogger who posts pictures, confesses to having my life in disarray thus making you feel better about whatever shortcomings you may have, and once in a while I do a giveaway. Isn’t that what all the cool kids are doing? (The un-cool kids do annoying [...]
Let’s say that I have this friend. And this friend decides to tell me some information, see, about his sister-in-law who works in a maternity ward. We’ll call this friend Albert because that’s sort of a distinguished-sounding name. He’s a good guy and we pick on each other in the best possible way. You know, [...]
Traditions are there for a reason: to provide us with guilt when we don’t do them correctly. I’d finish that thought but my issue with procrastination is getting out of control lately. Since my children are older than most of my friends’ children there are these ‘new’ traditions with Christmas with which I am entirely [...]
Many years ago when I was still teaching in the classroom I found my people. My people came to me. I didn’t have to go looking for them because tra-la-laaaa I am just that ridiculously lazy. For some reason, a bunch of young teachers and I all seemed to click together one year. We were [...]
Instituting a Mandatory Sit-Down Dinner with real utensils and a colorful plate (see: must include a green vegetable) (see also: everyone seems to like broccoli) (see finally: a happy mom) is something to which I aspire but can’t seem to pull off on a regular basis. I should do it more often because the conversations [...]
Imagine, if you will, that my best friend sends me an invitation to her wedding. Imagine, too, that she lives across the country and there is an entire year before the event. Naturally, I’m going to look at the calendar and check to see if I can make it. Next, I’m going to assess whether [...]
Just some snippets of conversations from the last few days… … “Thanks for taking my pictures for me. I like the ones you have of you in this frame.” “Ahh, yes. Well, it’s because I look much better in larger pixels. In person I’m kind of hideous.” … “I’m going to lunch with a friend, [...]
Lately, my oldest son is playing Moral Police and constantly telling me to watch my language. It’s not that I walk around allowing foul words to just fall out of my mouth with no discernible context. For example, when I read about the pool in Philadelphia which banned the minority (Black and Latino) kids from [...]
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