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It all started with the tree. I never liked Charlie Brown’s tree. I only liked Snoopy’s. Blame it on years of inhaling evergreen-scented artificial snow fumes, but I find no Christmas inspiration in driving to a forest, which used to be my grocery store parking lot, and haggling … [Read more...]
Raising decent children is backbreaking, exhausting, thankless work. I’m glad I took the time to do it. It was touch and go for a while, back when I was sitting on the front porch of my girlhood home, begging my parents to let me join the Girl Scouts. I was browsing around eBay … [Read more...]
I graduated from college with a vague sense of unease. The school was thrusting me out into the world without so much as a “thank you for paying us ten grand a year” and I felt unprepared for it. I hadn’t been taught to budget, balance a checkbook or cook anything besides Ramen … [Read more...]
Not many of the male species survive long in our house. Take Shane for instance. The poor little guy never stood a chance. We brought two fish, Shane and Hannah, home from the pet store yesterday. The adorable pair sported neon blue stripes down their backs and darted about the … [Read more...]
The Construction Men cometh -- at about 7 a.m. each day -- to bulldoze and bang their way through my morning dreams. I try to ignore them. I hug the pillows to my ears and throw the covers over my head in an effort to cling to my sleep. But these Nazis of Noise, these Demons of … [Read more...]