I Don’t Subscribe to your Societal Norm

Not really.
The title makes it sound like I have some sort of ideological stance, but really it is more of a combination of general laziness coupled with my upbringing.
What I’m talking about is Christmas/Hanukkah/Seasonal cards…..I don’t send them.
I have never sent them.
I am pretty sure I have never signed a card professing my holiday greetings, [...]

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Smooth Talker

I have now heard every pickup line in the world.  I have come full circle, ladies and gentlemen you may resume complimenting my eyes and requesting I name my astrological assignment.
Saturday night, I was out on the town with my ladies, minding my business and wearing my wedding ring (for the record).  I was helping [...]

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Keepin’ it Real

Funmama Deanna has recently recognized my ability to be real over on her fine blog (click the link, you know you wanna) by presenting me with The Maire Antoinette Award.  Let me just say that I adore the idea behind this. Fabulous.  But the original image left something to be desired:

It’s a lovely painting – but [...]

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I Spy With my Pink Eye

Conjunctivitis has come to my home for the holidays.
Amidst the jolly scuffle of erecting the carcass of an evergreen and decorating it with tinsel and  finery (like the twenty year old ornaments I was given from my mother, including my favorite: Rudolph the One-Eyed Reindeer), I glanced down into my little Bear’s face only to see [...]

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Picky Pants

I admit it, I was smug.  I would watch as other parents bargained and reasoned with their kids to eat, or defeated fed them the 87th grilled cheese sandwich that week because they will only eat bread and cheese combination….. and I would think I would never make a separate meal for my child.  I [...]

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Farewell Facebook Friend

The internet is a place in which information is free to float where it may.  Tweet it, facebook it, put it on myspace (but no one will read it there). Pour every meandering thought down into the white rectangle and watch as it affixes itself to cyberspace, to be viewed and judged accordingly by all that see it.
Add to [...]

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Like the Fishies love the Seas

We love books. Our house is covered in them, we have so many that our bookshelves can’t hold them all. Regardless of the day, you will likely come across piles of tomes shattered about, both long and short, adult and children.  We have so many we are often searching for a book that becomes lost amongst its [...]

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About a Squirrel

Easy- E has decided that the best animal in the world abounds in our backyard.

 
He spends a good portion of each day gazing lovingly out of windows and doors, alerting us to every one of these bushy-tailed beasts he spies with his little eye.
 

 
He also has his own personal buddy, Earl, who accompanies him on every [...]

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Memory of the Sun

This is my Bear, at around 17 months old, listening to music, hanging out with his mother, learning to talk and climb.
This is my son, when he was the sun, the true center of my world – the most important being in my universe.
Today he is approaching the halfway mark of his eighth year and there is [...]

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Mediations on self destructive behavior.

I have been writing since I could speak in sentences, narrating my own existence, putting my day to day into a lyrical prose I could carry around in my head.  Before I could write, I would put my stories down on paper, filling pages with characters climbing up the walls of the page, desperate to [...]

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