Jonathan: Have I lost my childhood? Me: What do you mean? You’re 12! Jonathan: Yes, but I don’t have anything epic to remember it. NOTE TO READER: “EPIC” IS THE NEW WORD IN OUR HOUSE. EVERYTHING IS NOW EPIC – BIG OR SMALL. (THE EXPECTATIONS ARE SUDDENLY VERY HIGH.) Me: What? English please. Jonathan: Well, […]
What is a Mother
Although “blessed” is not one of the top ten words in my vocabulary (I prefer words like grateful, appreciative and awwwwwww thank-you), it admittedly goes hand-in-hand with the word “mother”. For one thing, I have not one, but TWO great mother-figures in my life (you know who you are) AND I get to play mom […]
A bra a car and a side show
Okay dad. You can just go ahead and skip over reading this post because it’s about my bra. And my car. More specifically, me removing my bra while sitting in my car. Any experienced bra wearer (namely women) knows that when a bra is comfortable, it’s COM-FORT-A-BLE! And when a bra isn’t, it’s oh-my-fricken-god-will-this-day-ever-end-so-that-I-can-take-this-stupid-thing-OFF! Well […]
Day one of my non-alcoholic writing life
One of the things I realized recently (and this is just “one” because days are full of grasping episodes of dumb-ass things I know yet don’t pay attention to) is that the reason I’ve been struggling with my novel is simple: I don’t have an end. I have a point “A” and a bunch of […]
My pledge
Is it just me or is every day a race to get as much done as possible before I fall on the mountainous heap of laundry that I never seem to catch up on? All that to say that there aren’t enough hours in a day. (Because you haven’t heard THAT before.) Sometimes I wish […]