Stop Snowing Damn-it
If it doesn’t stop snowing soon, in time for the plows to do their toil and prepare the roads for school tomorrow, I will begin to weep. And I will continue to weep through the long day tomorrow while my children sit home for the third day in a row, temperamental and bored, hopped up [...]
The LED Spirit of X-mas
I have reconsidered. After writing Tuesday’s harangue, I tried to settle into my own bah humbug and felt all kinds of itchy and sad. It occurred to me that without my driving the Christmas Bus, the holiday would, in fact, actually not occur for my children. No filled stockings, no gifts beneath the tree. Hell, [...]
Scrooge
I wish I were the type of person that could earnestly don a holiday themed sweater and some poinsettia earrings and settle into this seasonal stuff, generating deep internal satisfaction in hours spent marching the mall corridors hunting the perfect gift. Instead I screech into the Target parking lot at 8:30 a.m. on a Saturday [...]
Do Dogs Get Dysentery?
I awoke to find canine generated diarrhea all over the mud room and downstairs bath for the second time in so many days -like cow flops in size and smell, a field of the richest stink littering the white tile floor, dotting the gray L.L. Bean carpet.
Last night, before bed, I had put newspapers [...]
