Walking Dead Wisdom
I read an interesting blog a few months ago that analyzed the current obsession with all things zombie as a symptom of our human need to get back to basics. Our cult of convenience lifestyle has left...
View ArticleDance School Drop-Out
This is the letter I’ll be delivering to the owner of my daughter’s dance class this evening, it breaks my heart to break my daughters heart but I believe it’s for the best. She will be sad for a while...
View ArticleRemember Me?
It’s been over a month since I last blogged and I’m sure all 7 of you that actually read this poor undertended blog have missed it incredibly. My creative juices have been flowing into other streams,...
View ArticleWe’re All In This Together-Tips for Being A Decent Human
1. Don’t let the school bus out in a line of traffic. Ever. 2. Do let the guy with a loaf of bread in front of your fully loaded cart in the check out line. 3. No strap-less, tube or halter tops....
View ArticleThe End Has Always Been Near
I’m sitting here enjoying my English muffin, reading the news on the interweb and pondering people who believe that the particular set of circumstances the world finds itself in today must mean that...
View ArticleInside the Overactive Imagination (or Why I Forget We Need Milk)
Here are just a few spastic thoughts I’ve spent valuable brain power entertaining the last week or so. While edging in around the ceiling in my daughters bedroom I began to think about what a tragedy...
View ArticleI Don’t Need The Village, Thanks. I’ve Got This.
Quick rant while it’s on my mind. Please excuse my lack of paragraph form or sentence structure. Oh, and the graphic has nothing to do with the post. It just makes me feel better. Even good ‘ole...
View ArticleArticle 2
It’s Teacher Appreciation Week, which has me thinking about all the teachers who molded my little mind, for better or worse over the years. I have a memory of each and every one of them, and most of...
View ArticleLet Them Be Dogs
As we were winding our way through the third dimension of hell (otherwise known as Wal-Mart) we encountered a woman who had a fat, trembling, black chihuahua perched in the seat of the cart. “What’s...
View ArticleLooking Forward to Nothing
In searching for pictures of Sloths (Sloth? Slothi?) I noticed they’re all smiling. All the time. There has to be something to that. It’s like a cruel cosmic joke that my creative juices start bubblin’...
View ArticleI Hope I Can Come Up With Some Spare Change
For a few years now this Obamacare thing has felt to me no more than a rumor. Remember about 10 years ago when everyone really started using e-mail and there would always be a chain letter from...
View ArticleJoy. Oy.
I’ve been channeling my inner Anne Shirley and dramatically wallowing in the pits of despair lately. The insurance premium hike, the miserable weather, the car taxes coming due, being practically...
View ArticleSnips, Snails and Puppy Dog Tails
As I round out the end of pregnancy with our third little girl the congenial woman I once was has been replaced with a monstrous she devil. My husband has recently declared in Soup Nazi fashion ‘No...
View ArticleA New Chapter
It’s now been a week since we welcomed our third child into our lives. Charlie Theresa arrived at 10:14 last Monday, just ahead of what counts in the south as a snow storm. The swirling flakes blew...
View ArticleLet Them Eat Cake
L After writing last week about just how mundane my life is as of late I was lacking much to blog about. I’m not a real “Mom Blogger” with crafty advice, wise wisdom and recipes for scrumptious Tofutti...
View ArticleThe Unsung Heros of Everyday
Being someone of high hopes and little follow through I have held a lot of jobs. Waitressing, retail, bookkeeping, reception, retail, childcare, bank teller, office/county council campaign manager. I...
View ArticleConfessions of a Mom
First I must confess that I should probably be doing something besides writing right now. I’m sure my husband will read this and grumble that I couldn’t get those shirts dried but I had time to blog...
View ArticleFor Fear That You May Read It
My blog has never been about one particular subject or another. It’s not just for family updates or my views on current events. It’s not a strictly religious blog though that influences much of my...
View ArticleToday will be better
Yesterday was total crap. I can’t think of a way to put it eloquently, total crap pretty much covers it. Charlie has been diagnosed with Silent Reflux. The stomach acids churn up and rather than being...
View ArticleHere’s What’s Happening In My Neck Of The Woods – bonus I just made you think...
It’s been a few weeks so just to keep in the habit of blogging here’s what I’ve been doing recently: Sleeping through the night! My not so evil overlord has finally gotten a bit more predictable and is...
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