I saw a funny book today at Barnes and Noble. I kid you not, it was called Found Grocery Lists.
And it was scanned grocery lists, in their crumpled glory, with scrawls of notes from disparate homes. Some had large punctuation, some the 4 year old was told to add CHIPS in barely legible print. Some [...]

Bad first, I always say. Or perhaps it should be good, then in all your bliss you forget to receive the bad news. But in this case it cannot be helped. The bad news is that I have been super sick, I am home now but did have a short stint at the hospital. I [...]

A day in the life of.
I often find the cumulative list of ‘things to do today’ an odd and funny allotment. Whether officially on a list or not, these items filled my day:
Drop off car at the shop; walk home.
(Note to self: figure out how to get the kids home from school).
Gather laundry from [...]

My son is in bed, giddy with excitement, and unable to sleep. Why? He received fungus in the mail.
He is a sixth grader, with a typical assignment: a scientific experiment of any kind, based on the scientific method. You know, have a control group, apply a different variable in each consecutive instance… many kids are [...]

It is Christmas time. And my [extended] family, probably not unlike others, struggle year upon year about whether to give big gifts or little gifts, pile grab bag gifts or make homemade gifts. Are the gifts getting too expensive? Is the family getting so big that we still buy gifts for everyone? How about an [...]