Just a one-word prompt today. I’ve written the word below and ask that you write a paragraph, a poem, or even? post a photo on what the word means to you. The word is: JUDGMENT Perhaps you write about a situation where you were judged — or are judged — or where…Continue Reading
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Looking for Summer Camps? (San Diegans Only)
I know I am. Here’s one I found out about recently: The City of Encinitas Summer Camps from June 21- August 27. Put on by the City of Encinitas Parks and Rec Department, the camp program has dozens of different camps from “Seaside Day Camp” and “Junior Lifeguards” to cooking camps. Costs run from $99-…Continue Reading
Monday: A Memory. Just Like I Promised.
In my early 20s, I worked as an advertising coordinator for a Chicago-area bank. I took the job right after I moved from L.A. where I was an editorial assistant for a video game magazine. Like I do, I pretended I knew way more than I did during my bank interview, and so became responsible…Continue Reading
Hello. I am San Diego Momma and I Am A Randomaholic
I need more structure in my life. There’s ENTIRELY too much random abounding in my daily goings-ons and as such, I must impose boundaries and guidelines on myself. Not only will these circles of propriety give new meaning to my bouncing from thing to thing, but my blog posts will now have purpose. PURPOSE! …Continue Reading
Online Detox
I’ve been online too much. Too too much. There’s the Twitter and the Facebook and the blog and the other people’s blogs and the Skype and the email and the other email. I think in terms of “can I blog this” and when my mind is blank of post fodder, I wallow in existential misery.…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #98: Lyrical
Today? Please write a poem. Free form. Except…I do require one word be included: Halcyon. Do it for me? Please post your submission in the comments OR post in your blog and leave a link to your blog in the comments. First time to PROMPTuesday? Read a bit about it here. Want…Continue Reading
The Many-Dimensioned Reasons of Why I Am Awesome
You know what I think is awesome? When I tell my husband why I am awesome. In exacting, painstaking detail. Because he sometimes forgets. And so I gently remind him that I COOK A LOT. That I WORK FROM HOME AND BRING IN MONEY. That I AM NOT A DRUG ADDICT. Also, that PEOPLE FIND…Continue Reading
Still… In Progress
Birds leave shadows on the grass where a blanket is drawn Close by, clouds skitter Blacking out The wings It’s like this On the ground Where light and dark intermix A speckled mosaic Of wondering and cursing Not sure what it should be What should it be A shadow, a bird…Continue Reading
Don’t Call For Me…
…I’ll be busy.
Pennies for Penny
I love my two little girls. Deep down-to-the-soul, lift-my-heart, in-every-last-fiber love. It’s no different for those of you with children. Now imagine if your child were sick — not needs Tylenol every four hours sick, but sick-and-might-die sick. I’m sorry to make you go there in your head, but someone in our community is…Continue Reading
We Don’t Have THAT Much in Common
Not too long ago, my brother sent me a link to Elizabeth Gilbert’s TED speech on creativity (which I’ve posted here several times) and told me, “This woman reminds me a bit of you, and I think you’ll probably enjoy it if you haven’t seen it.” Well of course I was semi-flattered, because as…Continue Reading
The Cough of a Thousand Nights
Oh the things we do. Last night, Booger coughed constantly and continuously and for the frack ever. Like as in and for example, ALL NIGHT LONG. She obviously had a tickle in her throat that wouldn’t quit and it plagued her throughout the ENTIRE EVENING AND INTO THE DAY. As a concerned mother…Continue Reading
