We had a busy end to the summer in addition to the drama over the captain. Little Miss entered the purple zinnias she planted in the spring into the county fair and took second place! It’s the highest she’s placed, and she was thrilled. K and her family were here fair week, which was fun, [...]
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31 Aug
Do they have surreality shows…?
…’cause if they do, I think I need to sign up. The kids started school today, officially bringing this summer to an end. Not a moment too soon, in my book. This has to be the strangest summer I’ve ever had. And that’s saying something. As a corollary of the fact that Little Miss and [...]
9 Aug
Approaching ‘normal’
I realized the other day that this is the first ‘real’ summer the two younger kids have had since they were maybe a year old. (The Captain, of course, has not improved, so he continues in partial hospitalization, and has developed a kleptomaniac streak that’s gotten him in trouble with the law. Fabulous.) But Little [...]
10 Jan
Holiday dining at its finest
Our original plan with this most recent southern trip was to take it in December, when we would use the free day at Disney tickets we received after volunteering to make blankets for Project Linus last year. Unfortunately, the economy dictated that we wouldn’t have quite the vacation fund necessary to accomplish this goal, even [...]
25 Sep
A lonely road
This month I took a real walkabout, driving out west for several reasons, including booksignings, a master writers’ class and some research/picture gathering for the Elf Clan series. The first week, I gloried in the Adventure of the Road. For the first time in a long while, I had time alone. Miles and miles of [...]
29 Jun
Two days, two zoos
In the few short days between the time Little Miss’s school let out and summer school starts, I wanted to take her someplace, you know, just Mommy and me kind of thing. So we went to the Erie Zoo. Compared to the Miami Metrozoo and even the Cleveland Zoo, Erie’s is pretty small. But it’s [...]
9 Mar
Does the truth really set you free?
Candor is a double-edged sword; it may heal or it may separate.–William Stekel I’ve seen promos recently for a program on the WE network called “The Locator.” It’s a reality show about a guy named Troy Dunn, who’s made a career out of looking up long-lost family members for hire. This week, for example, the [...]
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