Look at some of you people! You’ve written two or three follow up posts to BlogHer already and here it is Thursday and I’ve been hounded by several close friends to write a post already! I’ll be honest. When I was contacted about possibly interviewing Glee’s Jane Lynch while I was out in San Diego [...]
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 [...]
Six months ago I decided to talk to my landlord about moving out. He and his wife were just great people and wanted to sell their house but it was a two bedroom, one bathroom charming little bungalow with no garage and a leaky basement. No heat ever got to the upstairs where three of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Mallory’s birthday this year came and went, for me, in a flash. A slow-moving, dragging out all day, must get a ton of stuff moved to my new house flash. If that’s how flashes work. She celebrated it with friends who came to visit from St. Louis and, while I called her early enough in [...]
The best part about writing a blog is that it’s a time capsule for your life. A narcissistic time capsule, yes, but something that marks your growth and change nonetheless. Actually, I still think that Jay has the best tagline for a blog because it sums it up so very well: “Blogging is just masturbating [...]
Over the last few months my blog has been “discovered” by the locals. And boy, are they restless. By that I mean that they mention reading my blog when I see them. Some are old friends, acquaintances, co-workers, and parents of my students. Ever since our local newspaper mentioned my writing there are some new [...]
This will be the first year in the history of my being a parent that I won’t be with my children on Thanksgiving day so we have decided to our meal today. It was the basic turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, green bean casserole, pumpkin pie (blech. I don’t eat it, but the children do – [...]
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