You may have figured out by now that despite my issues with divorce, I’m pro-love. I don’t care if you’re black, red, white, green, yellow or purple – whether you have innie bits or outie bits – I believe that everyone has the right to experience love they way theyContinue Reading
A riddle I heard a long while back popped up in my Facebook feed yesterday… A father and his son are in a car crash. The father dies, but the son is taken to the emergency room. At the OR, the surgeon looks at the patient and says: “I cannotContinue Reading
One of my favorite bloggers at More Than Cheese and Beer has several regular features. Every Friday, I read her Friday Feats and Fails and say darn it, this Friday, yet again, I didn’t join in the fun. At More than Cheese and Beer, the fails always come first. TheContinue Reading
It’s 2015. I can’t believe it. This is (duh…duh…duh…da!) the year that I’ll turn 40. The big four-oh. Over the hill. One year closer to pushing up the daisies. Nah…I’m just kidding. I’m just turning forty. I’m not dead yet. I have friends who dread the passing of every year.Continue Reading
I’ve been blogging for almost eleven months now – and almost solely on my iPad Air. For the most part, Apple has made it a fairly easy process. There are very few things that I need a real laptop (or desktop for). There are apps for just about everything –Continue Reading
When I was young, my mother didn’t work. Until we went to school, she stayed at home with us, and took care of neighborhood children during the day. There were two children who lived about a block away. The eldest was three years younger than me, and the youngest six.Continue Reading
I’ll admit it…mothering three kids and holding down a full time job and keeping up a blog is a bit more of a struggle then I’d anticipated. My blog is suffering. I’ve still got great ideas – but I have a new director who is offering me new opportunities (yes…that’sContinue Reading
I try to use my blog as a tool to tell the world about things I perceive as wrong. I feel that remaining silent in the face of injustice perpetrates the injustice. Not speaking speaks volumes. But not the right message. Today – I want to give you the rightContinue Reading
“There once was a shepherd boy who was bored as he sat on the hillside watching the village sheep. To amuse himself he took a great breath and sang out, ‘Wolf! Wolf! The Wolf is chasing the sheep!’” Of course, the villagers come to his aid, more than once (asContinue Reading
I read a blog this week from a SAHM who was admonishing divorced mothers and step moms for blogging about their troubles. She suggested, in general, that if you don’t have something nice to say, you shouldn’t say it at all. She suggested that the potential for damaging the relationshipContinue Reading
