Mallory and her boyfriend, Kolin, are serious about Halloween in the way that only people who are in their mid twenties can be serious about Halloween. They threw a costume party on Saturday and decided to dress us, along with their friends, as the characters from Jurassic Park. I especially love that her friend, Gwen, [...]
I have tried not to bore anyone with our photos from our family vacation to Galena last weekend, but I can’t keep this one to myself. We had a plan to do several things while we were away from the hustle and bustle of daily life like we’d never have done if we were stuck [...]
Mallory is, by far, the most well-rounded and thoughtful person I know. I normally try not to make sweeping statements like that about people, but she’s my kid and there is no one in the world who has been as close to me. While I realize it takes two people to make a baby I [...]
You know that look you give your child when he’s walking out the door and he gets into the car to take off for the first time since getting his driver’s license? That. That is what this post is about. But I won’t do the long drawn out narrative about how I know my fate [...]
Today is The Cuban’s birthday. He is teaching my great-niece to decorate her face with table decorations that read “Kelly”. These two are big trouble when they’re together. Plus, he’s a sucker for a pretty little girl. He’s 45 and I have no problem just putting that right out there since he was fine with [...]
In the last few years I’ve been pretty quiet about family and what we are all up to and have kept my blogging to a minimum of posts that generally tend toward the education realm and the racism realm (not yet quite post-racial, Amurrica, are we?) so I know there are a few new readers [...]
It gets harder and harder to come back to writing when I let time go by, so consider this the first of many posts to come. I’m ready to come back to writing regularly. (See also: I have found someone to finish the re-design for me at a decent price. That’ll happen in January.) What [...]
Those are the words Oprah said to me so that I could offer a comment or ask a question. If you go to this link you can see the “After the Show” where the audience gets to speak and I’m somewhere around the 16 minute mark. The experience in and of itself was rather surreal, [...]
My sister has been at my house every weekend for the past three weeks. I’ve lived in my new house for three weeks. That right there is some serious sisterly dedication. The first weekend was to help me move, the second weekend was to attend Mason’s graduation, and this last weekend was to help me [...]
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 [...]
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