Last month I wrote about Find and Remind, a “planner” site for which I’m a “mombassador.”   As you may or may not recall, I admitted in that post that I’m a dope. With no brain cells for remembering stuff, and generally a forgetful dip.   I referenced my friend Lori, who is my hard [...]

Today I’m doing something a little unorthodox with PROMPTuesday: I’m sending you somewhere else.   This prompt comes from the Write Practice, and asks that you write inspired by the word, “Chicago.”   I left my submission there. I’d love to read what you write, too. You can say I sent you. Or not. You [...]

The Rock and I recently joined our good friends for a casual dinner, ordered a hefty order of pub food, and settled in for some easy conversation and laughs.   I expected silly talk mostly, because a long week just passed behind us and we all seemed prepared to empty our minds of the drivel [...]

What’s the one thing you’ve alway wanted to tell someone but never have?   Maybe it’s a profession of love or a confession of guilt. Perhaps it’s something you need to get off your chest. Or words you’ve practiced in front of a mirror that you never delivered to the person for whom they were [...]

{I think it’s time to post this again.} {And P.S. There’s some funny happening over at SurferWife’s this weekend you might want to check.}   My husband is a tile and stone contractor whose work is so famously awesome he’s had amazing jobs for 20 years strictly by word of mouth. I mean, he’s good. [...]

  I want you to know that I’m super conflicted about posting this here. However, in the end, I try to practice what I preach. I’ve repeatedly written that I’m one of those people who will tell you everything if you ask. I aim to be honest and real and open.   Even if the [...]

  Why not?   Have you ever written a “best of” recap for your favorite posts? I think you should. I’m going to do it. Because I’m so good at self promotion (see below). Several of these have appeared in other forums, because I only write a few passable things a year and just keep [...]

I’ve been working on a humor web series with my friend (and series creator AND star), Jessica Bern, and the show is going into production soon! Holy cowdogs. At any rate, there’s a scene in the third episode where bloggers are needed as extras and for speaking parts. Here’s the Facebook page for the BlogThis! [...]

The other day at dinner, a friend asked when I thought the prime of my life “happened.” I scanned my memories and tried to come up with an apt answer, which I did, and will post in answer to the below shortly.   As for you, when is/was the prime of your life?   And [...]

  Sometime this month, I’m scheduled to be on the cover of a local weekly newspaper. I’ve known for awhile, probably about two weeks after my December interview, when the paper’s photographer called to set up my “cover photo shoot.” The fact that I — or rather my blog persona — would be featured on [...]

I knew it was over when he told me he’d been killed. I received the email at work, the Monday after Thanksgiving, a day usually reserved for catch-up and slowly easing into the week. I grabbed my coffee from the break room like I always did first thing and settled at my PC, ready to [...]

This week’s prompt asks that you finish the below sentence with a story or a line or a paragraph:   “I knew it was over when…”   The “over” doesn’t have to be a relationship, it can be a phase in your life, a job, a party, or a discussion.   Or anything for that [...]

The reason I’m re-posting this is because I’ve noticed my hypochondria is waning. I don’t know if this is because I’m too tired to go to the doctor or if I have some kind of brain tumor, but I’m worried.   I’m the kind of person who goes to the doctor and then tries to [...]

  The above could be a life-changer…   Hi everyone. I think it’s time I came out of the junk closet, and admitted something to you.   It’s not going to be pretty nor savory. Not neat nor clean.   Instead, it’s disgusting. Absolutely a blight on my person.   Please gird your brains for [...]

“The day started quietly enough, which is always a tip-off. With two kids around, silence in my house is something to be feared and loathed…”   And that’s how my daughter’s descent into amoral seediness began. I wrote about “the incident” in 2010 when it happened, but prettied it up for my Mommy Moment over [...]

  Today on Facebook, one of my high school buddies referred to Kairos, which was supposed to be a life-changing retreat us Catholic school girls attended our junior year. It made me think of the below.   When I was a junior in high school, I attended a spiritual retreat called Kairos. It was a [...]