On more than one occasion, I get all hung up on my deadlines, my responsibilities, and my perceived importance in the world.
During these times, which number in the “many” category, you could find me doing one of the following: freaking out, crying, freaking out some more, feeling sorry for myself, getting mad, getting even and […]
Summertime and the living is easy? Think again.
Exactly one month into summer vacation, my ears are abuzz with the lament of parents across the land united in one, puzzled cry: “I can’t make my kids do anything around here!”
Adrift in a sea of popsicle sticks and snack plates, wet towels, sandy shoes, and […]
Et tu, Farm and Dairy? Recently, this very newspaper ran an article about the ability to have your very own windmill to create electricity for personal use.
They did this to excite, inform and because they wish to ruin my life.
Rough
I am not a pioneer. I have been heard to say (often and loudly) that it […]
Dear Bonnie Plant Company: I blame you for this.
You sent my third-grader home with an innocuous little plant.
Like kittens, puppies and fluffy white clouds that morph into not-so-cute funnel clouds, your little cabbage was downright darling at first glance.
Who knew the panic it would later entail?
Tiny
My daughter ferried it home from school cradled in her […]
As many of you were, I hope, reading all about how rising fuel prices had me firmly resolving to stay home this summer, I was, as with most things involving my willpower and resolve, already breaking my vows.
I was packing for summer vacation. Abroad.
Foreign
“Abroad?” Doesn’t that sound classy? Aren’t you breathlessly awaiting my […]
People are often surprised to discover that I camp. I know how that is. I’m often surprised myself.
I am not an outdoorsy type of gal. I’m more the indoorsy type. With cable.
When we camp I expect, at minimum, an air mattress to keep my princess-and-the-pea-like self off the unforgiving ground, decent meals and clean, hot […]
It is said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. If this is so, then someone call the men in white coats because I am definitely insane.
We have been on summer vacation for approximately a week now. Nine days, 13 hours and 31.6 minutes, actually, […]
A few years ago, I wrote a column about how that upcoming summer’s gas was predicted to top $3 per gallon. At the time that seemed outlandish. Now it just sounds quaint.
Gas
My husband once noted, dryly, that I was less “stay at home mom” and more “gassing around three counties mom.” He had a […]
Despite my repeated attempts to make them listen to reason, our otherwise excellent school district suffers one fatal flaw: They think that 10-year-olds belong in middle school.
If I could talk to the animals what I’d say is “Look, I don’t CARE if you never speak another word to me, but I’d appreciate it if you’d talk to EACH OTHER.”
For the past three days, a small brown bird has been trying valiantly to come into my house. He wiles away the hours […]