Hi Ladies and Gents! It’s San Diego Momma’s id. It’s come to my attention that she’s fresh out of inventive, refreshing blog posts. She’s got nothing to write about! This has to change. With the elections coming up tomorrow, it’s important that I take a stand for forgetful, overwrought mothers everywhere! Let’s join together…Continue Reading
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This Weekend
Classroom parties, kitty cats, candy in the pot Liar’s Dice, haunted house, never in one spot Funeral day, a little late, priest not so glad Packed between some mean old ladies, eulogy was sad Pumpkin carving, forgot the chips, last minute run Firepit, food a-plenty, against a setting…Continue Reading
Frills
If I had these lashes, I would be happy. Boisterous even! Boy is there a lot going on with me right now. Boiling, toiling, embroiling, a lot. So true to form, I am going to go fluffy. Because it distracts me from the heavy stuff and I’m nothing else but avoidant. The…Continue Reading
Creative Alliance #10: Good Soul Vibrations
What do you say when it’s time to make a change? If you’re lucky you don’t say anything. You just do the thing you’re supposed to do and stop doing the thing you’re not. Again and again, until new habits are born, stick, and stay. There’s no hemming and hawing, kicking or screaming,…Continue Reading
The Road Taketh, The Road Giveth
Today I leave for Los Angeles to attend this wonderful thing, and it’s been a long time. A long time since I’ve made the drive alone from San Diego to Los Angeles and back again and vice versa. I’ve driven that stretch of road connecting two lives for more than 20 years. Some years I’m…Continue Reading
Do Yourself a Favor. Ignore Me Completely.
All I got today? Half-started posts. Drafts. Nothing. Like so: ************************************************************************************************** Well it’s happened. I’m starting to think in 140 characters or less. Talk that way. Listen that way. Write that way. Between my two preferred modes of communication — Twittering and texting — I’m completely losing my…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #125: The Station Wagon
I learned to drive in this gem. But my ride was maroon and with more imaginary glitter. We didn’t travel far when I was a kid. I grew up mainly in the Midwest, so most of our trips were via our wood-sided Estate station wagon to exotic locales like Minneapolis and Janesville, Wisc.…Continue Reading
The Candle
If there’s one thing I know about myself it’s that I need prodigious reflection time, decompression moments, emotional detoxification. I once thought of myself as social and outgoing, but I see now that I have to retreat and remove myself from the goings-ons for mental clarity and renewed energy. I go full bore for a…Continue Reading
Me vs. Nobody
I have a nemesis. Sure enough, she doesn’t actually know I’m all up in her grill, but I’m obsessed. OBSESSED, I’m telling you. It’s unhealthy. I know. I talk to my husband about her almost daily, saying “read this!” and “can you believe she said that?” and “who does she think she is?” and…Continue Reading
Why I Could Never Run for Public Office
My maid’s name is “Leticia, Mistress of the Border Crossing.” My last vote was for Adam Lambert. Leticia and I have a daughter together. No we don’t. Yes we do. No we don’t. I’ll let the maternity test speak for itself. Oh look at that! Yes we do. It was the ’80s!…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #124: Where Do You Go Now?
Oh Autumn, my Autumn. How you dredge up images of misted lakes and overgrown roads. Of beany soups and plastic princess masks that stole my breath. I will never forget your drifting leaves and crackling fires. Your dry hay swirls and new schoolbooks. The way you make me want to tell stories. And…Continue Reading
White
It’s time to get something on paper. Noise and lint and beleaguered soul be damned. Inexplicably I think of kids’ games. Tug-of-war, see-saw, anything where there’s an opposing force, pushing and pulling; or a weight suddenly lifted, tossing me…off. I just want off. Off my butt. Off my brain. Then I see the artist in…Continue Reading
