What does a bad ass mom do after she’s had a really bad day? Apparently, she blogs about it and then she wraps her work up early so she can take her kids to a 5 o’clock showing of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles followed by a robust Italian dinner at Maggiano’s. It was a smart […]
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One For The Book
I took one for the book yesterday. That’s my positive spin on my disaster yesterday. I fell apart. I did. I still feel like I’m apart, like pieces of me are flipping and flopping around Bellevue. Last night after a very hard day I took kids to one of our favorite restaurants, a place we’ve […]
Animal Farm
I’ve been told by my children that pigs are the most highly intelligent (farm?) animal there is, with an estimated intelligence equal to that of a three year old child. This has me disturbed at several levels, not the least being bacon and ham, or my beloved pork chop casserole. Frankly, the idea of eating […]
Internet Mama
I’ve lost it. I’ve gone over, into the far side, the world of internet addiction. In the course of four days I am now a member of MySpace and the newish site called CafeMom.com which is a place for moms to hang out and it’s cool, far more my speed than MySpace but minus the […]
Holiday From Me
I don’t want to be a girl. Not today. I’m actually thinking of taking a holiday from being female. It just makes sense. Being female is just way too much work. It involves too much emotion. And the feelings! So many feelings. Feelings everywhere. Just like snails and slugs after a heavy rain. Now here’s […]
Thoughts We Think
In the old days I never heard compliments, only criticisms. For most of my life I concentrated on that which I did wrong and that which I’d failed. If one reader didn’t like a book, I lingered over the nasty email or online review while skimming the glowing ones. Somehow the nasty, the mean, the […]
Saint Valentine
I’ve been making a Valentine’s Day splash ever since my sophomore year at UCLA, the first year I had my own apartment, a two bedroom one bath apartment behind fraternity row that I shared with three other girls, including my great friend Karen Cope. It was wonderful being out of the dorms and having a […]
Rat Dance
We’ve established by now that I am a friend of rodents and reptiles. We used to have Mango, the hamster, and we’ve Gecko now. The Hawaii house had Gouda and my Bellevue house has–and there’s no delicate way to put this–a huge rat. On an up note, the huge rat seems to stay in the […]
A Few of My Favorite Things
I’ve been thinking about Valentine Day gifts and it’s not because I want to be Ms. Consumer, but between email ads from the companies I like, spam that I don’t like, and the internet with its ‘gifts gifts gifts’ thing going on, gifts are on my mind. I never had a real boyfriend in high […]
Mini Update
I’ve had computer issues. Just got computer returned after emergency trip to harddrive guru. New hardrive installed. Yeah. I can email, read my news on the internet, and oh, right, write my book. Speaking of book am on Chapter 7. That is better than 1 or 4. But book was due tomorrow. Not so good. […]
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