The Sting
Okay, so yesterday was Wednesday and you know that’s my tennis day, so I’ll give you the full disclosure. But I’ll make it brief because I hate to talk about losing. Especially the kind of losing that, if I hadn’t made such a mince out of my last service game, would have actually been [...]
A-Void-Ance
The existence of a book analyzing a person’s relative health based on the color, consistency and frequency of bowel movements does not, somehow, surprise me. In fact, when I first read about Josh Richmant and Arish Sheth’s field guide to excrement on Salon.com, I was not entirely bowled over (pun intended). It just seems simple [...]
Friday Round-up
I know, I know, I’m supposed to post something brilliant and snappy to launch the weekend but I’ve got nothing. It snows here again today. Big, fat heavy flakes of you’ve-got-to-be-shitting-me-it’s-almost-April kind of snow. My windshield wipers actually froze up while I was driving down the highway this morning. This mechanical difficulty meant I had [...]
Tough Crowd
I was resolved to don my big girl panties and drag myself out of the doldrums. I’d been indulging my foul mood, wallowing in the mud of self immolation. I thought I was finished with all that. I felt ready to greet the new day but then there was the thing that happened at Elementary [...]
Did I mention that I hate cats?
So resort week is officially over and the whole relaxation thing but a memory. No matter how hard I try to vacation, how completely I shake free of the anxiety and the pet hair and the mundane worries of the day to day, somehow all these things catch right back up with me upon return. [...]
I’m Back and Sun Bitten
I’m back. Well, back in the way that any person is back from a tropical vacation…back to laundry and meal planning, back to the effort of regaining the normal flow of our daily lives, all while trying to right our plummeting moods, fighting the mild depression ushered in by the bleak February sky, the whispers [...]
Pestilence and Dramatic Weather Events
I’m typing a brief adieu, I’m off to Florida where I hope to unwind and run sand through my fingers and unveil my shoulders to the kiss of the sun for the first time since September.
But it’s got to get worse before it can get better, right? As you’re reading this, I’m probably [...]
Weekend
I am not a very nice person when I’ve been a single parent for a five day stretch and I’m also not a very good writer at the end of such an exhausting stint. So I’m going to take it easy today and just do a sort of weekend round-up. Here are some good things [...]
Do Over
Some days are the kind of days you’d just like to hit the “Do Over” button. Roll back the clock and let it all unwind again.
But as it is, it’s the only day you’ve got and starts with an early morning wake-up (okay, it’s more like an early morning decision to finally get out [...]
Everyday
This morning G asked that her father accompany she and her brother to the bus stop. “No, I want Daddy,” she said as I uttered the words, “Time to get our coats on.” Immediately she came over to wrap her little arms around my waist. “Because you’ve got stuff to do, right Mommy,” she added, [...]
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