Death by a thousand paper cuts
I’ve had so many random thoughts whipping in and out of my head lately that it’s like being inhabited by bees. Loud, active, not sharing where the honey is located but gonna scare you into thinking it’s a DEVIL WASP …
{2e Tuesday} The Importance of Modeling
Monkey see, Monkey do, Monkey embarrass you in public by sharing that word they learned when you thought they were out of earshot. They’re always watching. No pressure, right? The kids are always watching and god help you if you …
14 Years of Words
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Or something like that. Fourteen years. I’ve been writing Laughing at Chaos for fourteen years today yesterday (the hours get away from me). I think the only other things I’ve …
Solo Harmony
Welcome to 2020; May we have a word? It’s the first day of responsibilities. Back to school, back to work, back to all the things that make up Life. I managed to hibernate away from many things for close to …
Just a flip of the calendar page
It’s been quite a decade A student and I were talking about the flaming dumpster fire we call life these days and I shared my tinfoil hat theory. When scientists clicked on the Large Hadron Collider, it quietly nudged us …
Best Things Today: November 25, 2019
If you’ve been around here awhile, or saw the recent video put out by 2eNews, then you know that I post three good things about my day nearly every night. I say nearly because I miss maybe one night out …
Broken Hearts Box
I’m so fortunate to have friends willing to write guest posts for me. This one gets me right where it hurts, and is posted anonymously, as requested by her son. ******************* This afternoon my tween son came to me for …
The 2e Pivot Key Change Cha-Cha
Welcome to the trenches Ohhhh, this crazy, upside-down inside-out world of G2e parenting. It’s not like anything (vague arm waving) out there. It’s been 222 months since I landed in this trench. 969 weeks of every emotion you could possibly …
I just have to put my feet down?
I’m so fortunate to have many friends in the gifted/twice-exceptional community, and that they are willing to write guest posts when I am trapped under something heavy (or just overwhelmed by daily life while planning for 2020). Please welcome my …
T.U.S.H.
Trapped Under Something Heavy Way back a billion years ago in Internet Time, in the heyday of bloggers and blogging community, a crafting blogger I followed wrote (explaining an extended absence) that she hadn’t entirely fallen off the face of …