Look, I’m as irritable as the next person. Or the 10 next persons. So I get it. I understand wanting to tell the screaming kid next to you in Panera to shut up, or shouting at the idiot in the turn lane who is texting and ignoring the green GO arrow. I really, really feel…Continue Reading
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PROMPTuesday #94: The First Two Lines
Here I am! Late, I know. So let’s get right to it… Finish this story: I gripped the steering wheel with both hands as flat white land rushed by, punctuated by the occasional scrawny tree. After three months of winter, the snow had hardened into a slab of gleaming marble… Please…Continue Reading
The Hormone Highway* (UPDATED)
Seriously, what are us forty-somethings doing about hormones run amok? Is it just me? I’m a leaky little boat bucked about on the hormone tide and I have had quite enough. The latest is: Continual night sweats Boobs that hurt Joints that hurt Head that hurts Uterus that hurts…Continue Reading
How Not to be a Mother
Today before Toots’ kindergarten day began, I found out that she’d ripped the head off a toy that belonged to her friend’s sister. As the mom told it, Toots snapped the head off and laughed evilly when the little girl who owned it turned red. The story was corroborated by Alexa’s friend. Now, the mom…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #93
It’s been about a year since I last posted Elizabeth (“Eat, Pray, Love” author) Gilbert’s TED talk on creativity. Her take on the creative process is fascinating and liberating, and begs the question posed for today’s PROMPT: What is creativity to you? This is a boundary-less and limit-less prompt. You can write what…Continue Reading
A Life Well Lived
“I have waited so long for my ship to come in, finally now that it has, I hope my pier doesn’t collapse!” –My dad. My childhood was noisy. There were four of us kids first of all, and secondly, my dad was a loud, boisterous, emotional man. When he was home, which wasn’t…Continue Reading
Houston, We Have a Winner!
Ali at Pickle Sugar Plum won the Corner Bakery card! Go Ali, go Ali, go Ali, go, go! I can’t help the lame things I say sometimes. It’s an affliction I have. Weirdness. My teachers said I’d outgrow it. Well here I am teachers of yore! Forty-plus and still flush with the…Continue Reading
Healthy? I Like to Think So.
The healthy eating post went well! I’m happy to report that I’ve followed many of your suggestions in the last few days and feel…sick as a mangy dog. But I’m sure that will pass, so to speak. It’s probably just toxins being released into my system for elimination. In the next few days, I will…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #92: 1,000 Words
The Rock helped me out with this one. Tired and spent last night, I couldn’t put a PROMPT together for nothing. So my husband got on Ffffound and procured several images to inspire my thinking. I am including most of the pictures here. This week, I’d like if you were to pick one and write…Continue Reading
I Probably STILL Have Candy Corn Lodged in My Colon
Back when I was thinner and concerned about things like double chins and large butts, I used to mentally calculate the calorie count of everything I ate. In my mid-20s, I even went through a “candy corn dinner” phase, where I’d eat handfuls of the stuff because it was fat-free. No meat and potatoes, just…Continue Reading
Tootstacular
This stream of consciousness brought to you by sugar and a teaspoon of Tylenol for kids. ********************************** Mom? Would you still love me if I killed someone? I would NOT be happy that you killed someone, but I would still love you. What if I killed a devil? Well…… …Continue Reading
Spinning
Like last year’s Christmas stuff on the guest bed, so too are the days of my life. I really want my blog back. And my life. I’m spinning so fast right now that I can’t keep up with anything. How do you moms do it? Is it just me? If you’d allow…Continue Reading
