We survived Emma’s first week of kindergarten. In the words of Willie Nelson, “It’s been some rough and rocky travelin’ but I’m finally standin’ upright on the ground.” As a newbie parent to the whole school gig, I am open to helpful tips….until they no longer feel helpful. Everywhere you turn you get accosted with [...]
I admit it, I watched every minute of the PBS series on The Merry Windsors the other night, and I can’t wait for the next installments. One detail about the Queen that wasn’t shared: when in her private chambers, she prefers to eat her cereal from a shabby old Tupperware container. This news flash came from an [...]
Last night we all converged in the kitchen at 9 PM, post-homework by pre-arrangement, for The Office. In a second burst of uncharacteristic culinary initiative in one week, I’d made a quiche while Chris and Hugh were outside doing yard work, and all was in readiness. Except we couldn’t find Malcolm, who had been skateboarding, [...]
The winds of change are blowing strong. This election season, the people of this country will put into office either the first African-American president or the first beauty queen, grandmother, moose killing creationist woman vice president. It is an exciting time to be an American. And while we have come so very far on a [...]
Today I am participating in Fun Monday, a pretty cool process I equate to a “posting party”, in which a different blogger hosts a topic each week and other bloggers weigh in. Today’s topic, hosted by MommyWizdom was: If you were ruler of the world/country/town for a day/week/month/year, you would… At first I was thinking [...]
