I think what keeps you young is learning a little something new about yourself as you age. I, for example, have discovered my inner four-year-old (boy). I am a construction junkie.
Behemoth of a building
I came by this knowledge quite by accident. For many years now I have begun many workdays staring at the side […]
Nowadays, I not only take my calculator along on grocery shopping trips (the better to ascertain if we can or cannot afford to eat again this week), but I probably should take a magnifying glass along too.
I don’t mean to alarm anyone unnecessarily, but our food appears to be shrinking. Granted, most would agree […]
First, I would like to thank the editor of this fine publication for my latest existential crisis. They cooked up that heartwarming “Thanks, Mom!” contest last week. I really thought I had that one in the bag.
I like to think I’m a pretty great mom. I’m there every day before school, after school, heck […]
I want to be physically fit. I really do. It’s just that it takes so much time. And effort. And commitment.
There is only so much time in the day, after all, and I have to pencil in parenting, cooking, cleaning, laundry, running errands and the like.
That barely leaves any time at all to […]
I suspect that civilization, as a whole, took a nosedive the very moment people started trying to reason with children.
Children are, by nature, unreasonable. Children are basically egos with lungs and legs.
Nonetheless, modern parents seem to spend an inordinate amount of time trying to coax, cajole and downright beg their progeny to “please, for […]
The moment you have a baby, people who are “experts” in the care and handling of infants become utterly convinced that if not taught properly how to hold your child you will, in fact, drop it.
Sane, rational adults will caution you to “Watch his head!,” as if only their careful tutelage is what prevents […]
It is said that murderers often return to the scene of their crimes. This is utterly believable to me.
I’ve been returning to the same spot in our backyard garden annually for years now, despite the carnage I inevitably leave in my wake.
Innocent
Some may recall that my first innocent victim, gardening wise, was a […]
I am an ironic dinosaur, career-wise. I began my writing on the Internet when I discovered, quite by happy accident, that some kind souls would actually pay me to do what I would happily have done for free at the time.
In the early days of the Internet, public “message boards” allowed anyone with dial-up […]
If I had any doubt at all that modern life has made me soft and slack, all it took was my love affair with our DVR (Digital Video Recorder) to convince me that it is so.
I’ll be thoroughly modern and immediately claim that this is not really my fault. Had I been born in […]
Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
– Elizabeth Stone
The collision seemed to happen — as these things always do — in excruciatingly slow motion. In a burst of reckless speed, a sudden swerve and then the sickening […]
