It typically happens that each fall, my blog gets all schooly for a while, as my brain is filled with homeschool thoughts and therefore that’s what comes out. But for some reason, that hasn’t happened this year. So either I’m not focused enough on educating my child or I’ve just learned to compartmentalize and not […]
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Off to the Races.
“Hey Eli, would you like for me to tell you where to stick it?” These are the jewels that you hear when you travel with a three-year-old and a six-year-old boy. (No, Noah had no idea what he was saying. Yes, he said it in the kindest, sweetest little boy voice ever. Yes, I laughed […]
Case Closed: The Mystery of Fred.
I am not the kind of person that can leave a mystery unsolved. Uncle Joe had to be found. Dr. Pepper TEN needed to be explained. It was an absolute must that I tracked down my twin. When someone hacked my PayPal account, it wasn’t good enough to just fix it. I needed to find the […]
The Baby Book of Burning Questions
Today is my birthday. And how should one always celebrate one’s birthday? By looking through one’s baby book, of course. Wanna look over my shoulder? Oh goody – I hoped you would. (Originally shared May 2, 2010.) When Ali was born, my Mom allowed me to take out a semi-permanent loan of my baby book […]
Life is Weird.
I saw an image tweeted by a Twitter friend, Abbey Crain, that I couldn’t believe was real. Surely this was in a list of “The Worst Advice the Internet Ever Offered” or something similar. So I googled the entire phrase on the “tip” to see for myself what kind of list would disseminate such horrible […]
The Tearing of the Veil.
If you ask Ali what she’s going to be when she grows up, she’ll tell you that she’s going to own a bakery (and that she’s an artist). The bakery is a big deal to her, and we have many urgent conversations as to the particulars of running the business, as she’s deeply consumed with […]
When Death Is Stranger than Fiction.
It was bath night. We had been to the playground, we had eaten popsicles and let them drip down our entire being, we had handled with our bare hands an opossum jawbone found in the wild (another story for another time), and, most compellingly, it was technically our twice a week appointed bath night. There […]
Callaway Gardens, a Photographical Journey.
Chris and I wanted to go off for my birthday (early, by the way – you still have time to mark October 9 as a Very Important Date on your calendar), but we didn’t know where to go. We only had a weekend available, so we needed to go somewhere relatively close, and we wanted […]
Sunsets By the Package.
In two days, I got two emails from different guys that I have zero connections with. (They were real emails from real people, guys!) One wanted advice as to where to take his girlfriend for a special date, and the other wanted advice as to where to propose to his girlfriend. This might sound extraordinarily […]
Burning Questions of the Public Restroom.
I visit public restrooms more often than I’d prefer. My preference would be zero times per lifetime, of course, but as I drink 100+ ounces of water a day, that’s just not going to happen, unless I go all Boo Radley on you and never leave the house. And if I did that my blog […]