Real Life

Things related to that reality thing people are always going on about.

The Ocean

The Ocean

It’s amazing. That is all. Or at least, all until I can get home and get settled. We never wanted to leave Disney World, but now that we have, and we took off to the ocean for a day and the kid looks like a lobster, we want to go home. Or rather, we want […]

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Summer Is Coming

Summer Is Coming

Summer must be near. The temperature is rising, the kids at school are getting restless, and my To-Be-Read pile is growing. The first two signs are fairly obvious, but it’s taken me a while to catch on to the third. Apparently as summer approaches, I collect books.ย I don’t think about it, but I seem to

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The F&ckit is Strong in This One

The F&ckit is Strong in This One

Some days, you don’t wanna do sh-t. Well, maybe you don’t have that problem, but I sure do. And because that’s how my brain works, odds are good I’m going to have one of those days on a day I must not give in. Like, you know…today. I have a book coming out Monday. I

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Blind Spots

Blind Spots

I have a friend who is a concert violinist. She’s also a retired teacher–from private lessons to fifty-student orchestras, she taught them all for over thirty years. She has a masters degree. In the last few years she converted to Judaism and now she’s learning Hebrew. She also writes great mysteries (not in Hebrew.) She’s

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Grist for the Mill

So Monday I returned to work after my surgery. Monday night I came home and fell over. Tuesday by ten o’clock I’d realized there was no way it was gonna work at eight hour days, and I’m lucky enough to have both leftover sick time and an excellent (and available!) substitute, so I fixed it

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Evil Moms Get Spider Children

So I have become the Evil Internet-Limiting Mom. FYI, this is what happens when you kick a kid off the computer. Or at least, my kid. The child in question whines a bit, complains there’s nothing to do, is threatened with chores if she doesn’t FIND something to do…and stumbles on a ball of yarn.

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My First Yoga Class!

My First Yoga Class!

Warning for slight mention of girl-parts (I use the word uterus. Some folks can’t handle these cuss words.) So these past few days, I feel that my life is changing. It’s pretty soon after the last time I felt like this, but I’ve come to welcome the feeling. It generally leads to awesome. Really I

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