Yes, Karin, I do have 972 blogs.
The Internet called me recently and asked if I’d start a blog of haikus for IT guys. I figured, why not? I’m not that busy.
Phew… the Internet is a demanding master. When we meetup each day, it’s always asking me to look over here, click this link, read this [...]
I had pancakes for breakfast yesterday and I took it totally for granted. God, how quickly we forget the hard times.
Back in the day, (when I was living on nothing but beer and chicken-flavored potato chips), finding any kind of American baked good was like a treasure hunt.
I was reminded of this when I visited [...]
Or, On How to Avoid Becoming a Lesbian at College
My friend, Frances, and I have married the same man.
Frances: Alex is bobsledding in Lillehammer. He’s a bit nervous.
Me: Why? He’s loves to ski black diamonds in brightly colored one-piece snowsuits.
Frances: The first time they go down in a big bathtub thing with five or six [...]
Wow there is SO much “content” out there in the World (Wide Web) to inform, amuse, and berate today’s parent.
I mean, don’t get me wrong. Some of it is actually useful. Such as the answers to basic questions like “Which end is up, again?” “Will it ever stop pooping?” and the classic follow up, “Will [...]
I have a tendency to slip into foul language when little people are asleep. It’s the side effect of a past life working in the restaurant business where half the employees never escape a room below 110 degrees and only hear the words: “You screwed my order up again” as the nearest thing to praise.
I’ve [...]
The truth is, we all need someone like Howlin’ Mad Murdock to swing in, now and then, in his robe and fluffy slippers to cause an awesome distraction while we eat the rest of the brownies.
Or maybe someone like Face, to charm the pants off of manager in the grocery store. She won’t be able [...]
After a visit to Colin’s work, we were all famished for lunch today.
Nothing says special holiday like a big bucket of KFC. We got the family 12 piece meal and just about devoured all of it together.
Dining on fast food on Christmas eve always reminds me of my own childhood. Ever so often — after [...]
This will be the Year Without Jack-o-Lanterns.
For religious reasons (not our own), Colin and I will be taking a hiatus from Halloween this year.
“If [we] believe fully in the omnipotence of God, then concern about witches, ghosts and goblins, and things that go bump in the night, is misplaced. It is God alone [...]
Note: Version three of this blog post
I am a huge admirer of Stacy DeBroff. This woman, the CEO of Momcentral.com, is a marketing genius and a fantastic business model built around one of her own passions– being a mom.
And yeah, I’m a little jealous. She’s wildly successful, spending many early mornings with Matt Lauer! [...]
NPR visited BlogHer 2009 in Chicago this week and raised the issue of blogger ethics that I’ve been ranting about for years now (can you believe I’ve been blogging for YEARS? How weird is that?)
The question is: If a blogger is receiving a product from a company to “review,” what incentive (if you haven’t had [...]
I overheard my brother-in-law refer to our current President as a “c*cksucker” during a recent stay at my parent’s house. This sparked a political dance/conversation on Facebook between myself and an old friend from high school.
The curious bit about this conversation is that I haven’t seen this women since high school. I have no idea [...]
Since the recent addition to our life, every single flat surface has been overtaken with objects foreign, plastic and otherwise unnecessary to the progression of life as we’d known it.
Or so I thought. However, small packages come with many bizarre and seemingly useless accessories, not the least of which are naked, anatomically-incorrect bald babies with [...]
My eye has decided to start twitching. It isn’t much .. just a little thing that I hardly should notice– except it us driving me up a duxkog wall.
It is the sleep deprivation version of Chinese water torture..: nothing much to complain about but just enough to take me slowly over the edge.
There is Nothing [...]
I had a revelation whilst reading a recipe suggestion from my friend Jeannie today.
Midwestern recipes seem to always involve spraying a pan with Pam and sprinkling Durkee Fried Onions.
We’ve been revamping our eating as you might guess to make things a bit more family friendly. Suggestions for dinners have been very “bake and freeze” in [...]
I am a writer. It is my calling and who I am.
That is NOT however, currently my profession.
Currently I am teacher. (I would appreciate any and no one stopping off at the cliche wheel for the “those who can’t..” metaphor.)
So here I am, with a perfectly good STRING of writing credits, heaps of experience, two [...]
