My brother and his styley wife, Jill, were on a home improvement show recently where their NYC deck was transformed into deliciousness. Check it out here. Try to make it to the end where you can enjoy the sounds of my broham’s nervous chuckling upon the deck reveal.
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The LA Story
Remember how The Rock and I went to Los Angeles to celebrate our ninth wedding anniversary? Yeah, me neither. Already those memories of alone time and afternoon nookie have been covered with back-to-real-life goings ons such as wiping other people’s butts and packing borderline-nutritious school lunches. Still, I’d like to see…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #106: Turning Point, A Fork Stuck in the Road
You know how you look back on your life and recognize certain moments that changed things forever? How you could have gone this way or that way, but you choose the way over there, and you’re a different person because of it? For me, that moment was when I moved from Chicago to Los…Continue Reading
Of Marine Animals and Invertebrates
A soft-bodied marine animal without a backbone. Slightly adjunct to last week’s post is that Toots had a jellyfish report due today. An oral report. Of facts she had to memorize. Accompanied by a poster board of pictures she drew to illustrate her supporting points. Points like jellyfish lifecycles and animal classification. …Continue Reading
The Cult of Biggerality
Why didn’t you people tell me about the overachieving parents at elementary school? Was it a hard lesson you thought I should learn myself? Like how no one tells you your butt will hurt four years after giving birth? I don’t know, I guess I thought that kindergarten would be more low-key. Like maybe…Continue Reading
Soul Questions
WHY, OH WHY INDEED “Why are you doing this?” It was a simple question, surely. Referring to something I’ve been doing continuously for nine years, but why, WHY? What do I hope to get out of it? That was his next question. He and I were sitting at a bar…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #105: On Repeat
I don’t know why, I really, really don’t: But the lines I’m going to share below have repeated in my head lately. I first published this sometime in 2008 (PROMPTuesday #13 to be exact) and I want to provide the story starter again. I feel like it’s singing a siren song. You get that,…Continue Reading
Draw Your Prose Gun: I’m Pulling Out the Bullet Points
If I even TRIED to craft anything remotely worthwhile, it’d take me weeks to chip through all the brain mucous, so… Bullet points it is. My Mother’s Day present from Holly Marie Jewelry arrived. You can’t see the detail because I need photography intervention, but Toots’ and Booger’s names/birthdates are on the…Continue Reading
A Lull
I’m currently lazing in bed, sick tissue at the ready, listening to the most majestic wind outside my window. The shades, pulled down to soften the sunlight, undulate against the window and there’s a subtle whooshing, not unpleasant, letting me know that the world is breathing and all is well, all is well. It’s…Continue Reading
Get in Free to Fleet (San Diegans!)
Starting at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, May 1, the first 1,500 people through the doors of the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center will receive free admission. An IMAX® film can be purchased for $5 per film (also limited to first 1,500 guests to visit the Science Center on May 1.)
Pointless, As In Lacks a Point
As a sworn hypochondriac, it’s my moral duty to distinctly remember every time I was really sick, not the in-my-head sick of every other day. And oh how I remember in vivid, technicolor detail. Let’s see, there was the time I was 13 and felled by some mysterious virus flu microbe that made my eyes…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #104: Going Back. Again
This morning Toots asked me if we could live in our house forever. Given that we rent the place, I knew the answer would be “no,” but I didn’t have the resolve to say it. As a kid who moved and moved and moved, I understood her question on a deep heart-level. Luckily, when I…Continue Reading
