I’ll get up tomorrow at 5am. I’ll serve our country until noon. I’ll drive 6 hours with this pervert I know from blogging. I’ll spend the night in a haunted asylum where over 60,000 people died. A couple other blogging friends will be there. We’ll leave the asylum at 4am […]
I just had some damned good pie and coffee in Woods Hole, Massachusetts after a day of biking across Martha’s Vineyard. There’s something tranquil about pulling two fighting toddlers alongside traffic jams and beaches where Jaws was filmed. It forces going to one’s happy place. After that, we took these […]
It’s July 1st: one week after our original closing date. I’m 1100 miles from the house we’ve been trying to sell for 4 years, and I just learned it is over. Mortgage paid off. New owner. Confirmed via email to the agent with whom I left a limited Power of […]
Thursday evening at 5pm, I landed in New Orleans to finish what I started at Mardi Gras. Or to live blog a mom blogging conference. Or maybe it was to meet the last blogger I’ve enjoyed reading for years but had yet to meet. Or I felt obligated to rejoin […]
1. Cut a hole in a box. Wait. Wrong list. To Win At Mardi Gras 2011, One Must: 1.) Bring the right ammunition. 2.) Power through the sleep deprivation. 3.) Pick the right balcony. 4.) Pay attention to the signs. 5.) Remember the children. 6.) Watch for mythic creatures. 7.) […]
