Plans for the morrow?
Tomorrow, if you look at a calendar, is All Kids’ Holiday. This is also known as April Fools Day, the day for which my sons pine all year long. This is also known as Mom Does Not Have a Sense …
Apparently I peed in someone’s Cheerios
Do you believe in karma? Paying for past sins, for things done in a previous life? Coincidence? Free will, predestination? Because I’m wondering just who the hell we pissed off in a previous life. When things go silent here on …
Focusing on focus
I’m at An Intense Life today, musing about focus. Just something that’s been on my mind lately. Come join the conversation.
Lacrimosa blog tour
My friend, Christine Fonseca, has a new book out. Lacrimosa, the first novel in her new Requiem series. I’m thrilled to host her guest post/interview on the last day of her blog tour. I profiled her and her novella, Dies …
The blessing and curse of multipotentialities
I am not kidding when I say that I have tried to write on this topic at least a half dozen times. Here, for guest posts, for the book that is sucking my will to live in a good but …
Good night, sleep tight, to heck with the bedbugs
I stopped reading parenting magazines years ago, when I realized that my son and my life would never be in them. Instead I have a gazillion and one other subscriptions, courtesy of airline miles that will never add up to …
Overheard in the backseat
You know how parents are always told to enjoy driving their kids around because we go all invisible and can hear all sorts of stuff? Well, I don’t have the opportunity to drive around the boys with their friends for …
Fillings
Good fillings: whipped cream, chocolate ganache, buttercream. Bad fillings: teeth, potholes, deep puncture wounds. Barely tolerable fillings: this post. Reread yesterday and you’ll see why.