If you’ve taken any kind of health class, you’ve heard of the fight or flight response. It’s the reaction to an outside stressor; you either do battle with what’s threatening you, or you run like hell. If outside stressors are …
I’m not entirely sure how to say this. Bear with me. I… I… I think I might be bored. I know! I’m shocked speechless too! How is it possible to be overwhelmed to the point of hyperventilating and still bored …
I have a restless mind. I know this, I dislike this, I barely accept this. I have a hard time concentrating simply because I’m always thinking of the thing that needs to be done next, or something I should be …
I fear this summer will go down in family history as The Most Boring Summer of All Time. Not for me, but the boys. I feel horrible about that. No summer camps, no classes, no excursions. I have to say …
It’s true, it’s something I’ve known for a long time, and I think I may finally have proof. Murphy lets his little Law poop on my lawn and doesn’t clean it up. I’ve recognized for some time that Murphy’s Law …
When I was in fourth and fifth grade, I was part of a pull-out program for advanced students. Looking back, it was what passed as a gifted program, but it was the 80s and pretty progressive for the times. There …
I may have a sick kid today (ok, yesterday…writing is taking me forever lately), I may have an unrelenting stress headache threatening to hang me by my entrails, and I may have been ordered to report for jury duty first …
Sumer is a cumen in… Eh, if the recent temperatures are any indication, summer is very most definitely here, and it has a good case of the mad. Hot. Deliciously hot. If I had planted tomatoes, I’d be doing a …
Home. So good to be home. I’ve returned, dug out from under the mountain of laundry, bought groceries, attempted to revive the outdoor plants I forgot to have a neighbor water, and have more or less recovered from the multiple …
Jeanine from Raising Complicated Kids is my guest this lovely Friday morn. She’s a co-Coloradan, and I’m delighted she agreed to cover for me as I wind my way through the tail end of a multi-generational road trip. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I …
