Pre Blather

So it appears that  The Swaggering Blogher 2009 has come and gone and and so I can finish up being jealous that I didn’t get to go and start peeing my pants about The Blathering because holy wah it’s less than two months away and people with access to the internet who can twitter the [...]

Black Flies by Shannon Burke

Black Flies is the fictional story of the 11 months that Ollie Cross spends as a medic in Harlem in the early nineties.  Ollie graduated from college intending to enter medical school with his girlfriend, but when he doesn’t get in, he becomes a medic in the hopes that this will increase his chances the [...]

Pancakes for Breakfast

First Dahlia

Last Blueberries

First Heirlooms

Dream Job

Please be aware I had two mint juleps for dinner. I am fairly certain that I shouldn’t be writing any of this, but it’s there, and it’s got to come out.
Have I ever mentioned that a long long time ago in a galaxy far far away, I worked for a book wholesaler?  And I was [...]

Etsy Shop Update

I just put a bunch of oldies but goodies back in my Etsy store.  If you know any babies who need outfitting, check it out!

I hope to have some new things ready to go in the next couple of weeks, assuming the weather and Senor Pants are both feeling cooperative, so keep your fingers crossed [...]

Methods of Coping

Remember the other day when we talked about cleaning the house and how much it sucks?  I have to admit that life was putting me in a phenomenally crabby mood, and then the sun had to turn on full blast and trap me in the house for days with an angry toddler and thus life [...]

A Day Late and A Dollar Short

Sunday was my anniversary – six years since the day Mr.E and I said I do.
And I thought and thought about what to say about this past year, about this man, about this life  I am so lucky to live, but whatever I could think of seemed gushy or insincere.  I thought about copying Maggie [...]

Chin Up

Holy goodnight.  What a week.
This was a week of family visitors – the good kind.  And family emails – the not so good kind.  But both the kind that leave you drop dead bone tired exhausted, where at the end of the week you are surrounded by all the things you must do every day [...]

Sleepy Time

So it turns out that these creatures:

turn into these creatures,:

like, overnight.
I know! It’s blowing my mind as well.
Sadly, someone needs a big boy bed, which means I need advice.
Because we live in a really really really small two bedroom house, every single piece of furniture we buy has to be SMART furniture.  Does that make [...]

Seven Quick Takes

1. Holy suckiness, batman.
2. Tess’s three most recent posts about Jon and Kate and flickers versus flickees have alternately riveted and terrified me.  Seriously, the woman needs a book deal. Or at the very least a professorship or an advice column or something.
3. I was all set to make some elaborate jello flag cake [...]