I tripped over the book about Elf on the Shelf (Harry’s origin story) this morning. I was picking up Henry’s bedroom. The kids are fascinated with the elf. Too bad I just realized that I […]

I tripped over the book about Elf on the Shelf (Harry’s origin story) this morning. I was picking up Henry’s bedroom. The kids are fascinated with the elf. Too bad I just realized that I […]
I’ve worn the dress two days in a row now for the 100 Day Dress Challenge, and the dress hasn’t grown on me. I think I could wear a dress that I loved for 100 […]
Trying to be more sustainable and push myself, I’m doing the 100 day dress challenge. Every day for 100 days straight I’m going to wear the same Wool& brand wool dress. I’ve started talking about […]
True Sentence No. 21: To the woman who screamed at me “That’s illegal! You’re illegal!” because you thought I was deliberately not-stopping for you and your young son at a crosswalk (we misunderstood each other’s intentions; […]
Mulberries are a deep, purple-black color when they ripen. Small and firm looking — not unlike blackberries — but they are far more pulpous. Last night, we picked mulberries off the backyard tree branches. It’s […]
I am looking for the merits of keeping it all bottled up so as not to ‘offend’ people who don’t even like me anyway. They don’t like me any more for keeping it all bottled […]
Today, my hips did not hurt. I went to a 4th of July BBQ. I frolicked with my kids. I tried a zip line swing. But I still heard the bone-on-bone cracking when I got […]
A few weeks ago, I went on a cabin-in-the-woods vacation with my family and my girlfriend and her family. And I experience bald-faced racism that I didn’t know still existed. It was a horrific episode. […]
I spent yesterday evening cyber-stalking my childhood bully. To be more precise: I spent the wee hours of this morning, from around 3am to 4am, looking him up online. It wasn’t hard to find him […]
True Sentence No. 17 I stumbled upon this video online. Summertime mom woes, narrated by Green Day. To the tune of all their classic songs, of course. Of course it’s obnoxious. Rushing to back-to-back carpool […]