Someone Who Reads This

In a few weeks, this blog will be six years old.  Anniversaries always make me take stock, and when I think about where I was six years ago when I started this, or where I was when the planes hit the towers or where I was when Katrina stormed, those events make me realize how [...]

Still Fighting

I wrote this for Maggie’s writing group, which has already been a really interesting and helpful experience.  You would not think that sitting down to write something that’s not a blog post would be that much different from blogging, but it is.  Funny. ********************* She spends all morning at war. They fight over a muffin, [...]

Not Comfortable

I’ve always thought of parenting drive bys as another one of those mythical hobbits of the internet.  They make a good  story but the closest I’ve ever come to experiencing one is the older lady down the street who always tells me that my children need socks, and I usually just laugh at her and [...]

The Year of the Rat

I’m trying to think of how to explain this without using the word passionate, because I’m pretty sure it’s not possible to say ” I am passionate about home grown tomatoes” without sounding douchey.  Maybe I should just bite the bullet and go whole hog. Ok.  Picture the following statement accompanied by one of those [...]

Strike A Pose

Some of the pictures from K Dub’s newborn photo shoot with the very talented Leslie Callan are up on her blog…you can check them out here: http://lesliecallan.wordpress.com/2010/08/03/baby-katie-is-six-weeks-old/ And if you’re in the Sacramento area I highly recommend Leslie.  She was so friendly and sweet and unobtrusive – it sounds dippy to say but I had [...]

Cheater

Hot damn, people.  I know this is bitchy, but I am so over the life list.  So so over it. (Except your life list.  I love your list list, I promise.) And I even have one somewhere, left over from when everyone else was doing it and I needed blog fodder.  I’m sure you can [...]

Survey Says

Somehow I got hooked up with a  site where you can earn gift certificates (to American Eagle, and now you know why I dress like a 12  year old) for answering surveys about a bunch of random hoo ha.  A lot of the surveys are about cell phones and when I’m going to get a [...]