Sorry if you’re getting this twice.  I spelled a word wrong and had to change it.  Just pretend you didn’t read it the first time.  Step One: Use post-it notes to separate the “Who, What, Where,” etc into nice, neat categories. Step Two: Take A Nap.  Step Three: Procrastinate further. Step Four: Do NOT get freaked out and do something… View Post

One morning, while the girls and I were hanging out outside, a yellow jacket flew by. I screeched, and it dropped dead.  Just fell to the ground.  No longer.  Personally, I think I might’ve scared it.  I think those yellow jackets know better than to mess with the lady who squashes them with her shoe when they fly into her… View Post

It all started with a pair of flip flops.  I don’t have much self control when it comes to flip flops.  I’m inspired when I look at them.  The solid colored, the patterned, the glittery….they each open up a whole world of possibilities with what I could do with my wardrobe.  It is quite possible that I could construct an essay about… View Post

Hadley is reading pretty fluently these days.  There’ve been a few suggestions to encourage her to read those leveled books and I cringe a bit. That big number on the corner, on the back, and on the spine takes away from the story, doesn’t it?  Maybe it’s my aversion to numbers, but it concerns me that a leveled reader will… View Post

I think I have writer’s block.  Not the best thing to have weeks before I start a graduate program in, ehem, writing. Here are my symptoms: *I’ve rearranged most of the furniture in our home.  It’s a two bedroom condo, but still, I felt it urgently necessary to move large pieces of furniture around. *My nails have NEVER looked better. … View Post