Recently on Interstate-90, just south of where I live, a woman named Heidi Conner was cruising along in her minivan with her kids. As she drove underneath an overpass, a deer came crashing through her windshield. Witnesses confirmed it had jumped OFF of the overpass. Yes. It dropped in from the sky. Kind of. In [Read On]
Resolution Schmezolution
By on January 1, 2013 Leave a Comment
I suck at keeping New Year’s resolutions. (Including, obviously, the one I make every year to quit swearing.) This year, I’m not going to resolve to lose weight (despite the fact that I am really, REALLY looking forward to joining a big, impersonal fitness center just as soon as the kids go back to school [Read On]
You Leave The House for Five Minutes, and You Get Invaded By Pirates
By on January 2, 2012 2 Comments
One morning over the holiday, I ran to the market. I was accosted coming in the door. I think they had a good time!!!!
Tooth Fairies
By on November 26, 2011 2 Comments
You’ve likely never seen a child more excited to have lost a tooth. Pea was giddy – GIDDY, I tell you. This is a “Yay, the Tooth Fairy is coming” kind of moment. She lost her tooth, as one does sometimes, while she was at school. Well, lost isn’t exactly the word, since she pulled [Read On]
Several trees will be killed this Christmas. I’m sure natural resources were wasted in the writing of this post, too. Sorry.
By on November 22, 2011 6 Comments
This year, as always, I am mailing out Christmas cards. I’m sure a few trees were felled in sacrifice. No, it’s not very “green”. Yes, it is wasteful. I apologize for making people feel guilty for throwing out the cards at the end of the holiday. (Trust me, I’m not offended.) It does take up [Read On]
I Can’t Do Math in My Head, Among Other Things
By on November 10, 2011 6 Comments
Despite the fact that I have a degree in Finance, worked for a hedge fund (and actually worked for a time on the trade desk, where we traded currencies and commodities), I can no longer do math in my head. Honestly? I think the combination of pregnancy hormones and sleep deprivation destroyed a few too [Read On]
Where I’m From
By on September 22, 2011 11 Comments
I am from pictures colored in a notebook, books and a flashlight under the sheets, from milk and carefully split Oreos and tents made from blankets under the dining room table. I am from the “west side”, dinners in the screened-in porch, root beer floats at the A&W drive in and the summer rain pounding [Read On]
If it Makes Me Hip, Does My Hybrid Makes My Butt Look Big?
By on August 30, 2011 4 Comments
As someone who never learned to drive a manual transmission*, driving an automatic car in the UK could be a costly undertaking, what with petrol (that’s gasoline to my American peeps) running about £3.60 a litre. That’s right, a litre. (You do the math, my whiny American friends – that works out to roughly (mumbling)…3.69 [Read On]
