With a lad so blonde and blue-eyed, I sometimes worry that he’ll grow up to be a Republican.

Note to self: when drinking boxed white wine with my mother, it is best to keep it to 1 1/2 glasses or less. Anything more makes for far too many revelations. What is it about wine in a box that is so different from wine in a bottle? Is it that it is just far [...]

I once read somewhere that being on coke intensifies one’s personality. So if you’re a bit of an asshole everyday, snorting coke turns you into a Super Asshole. Since I am fairly square and have never had the snorting sort of inclination, I have never found out for sure if this is the case.
Lately though, [...]

I can’t recall much of this week other than the many trips to and fro the doctors’ offices. Tuesday was the day when I learned that Wednesday morning would be spent in the hospital while we waited to see if Cass had any cysts that would account for the ongoing issue of blood in her [...]

Just talked to Heather. They didn’t find anything cancerous on Cass this morning. Thank God. The next step is that Cass has to pee into a jug for 24-hours and they go see a kidney specialist about the protein in her urine.
I am sure Heather will update more later.

One of my most favorite things to do with Devon is take him places where he fully should not be. Case and point, this morning I took him with us to Cassidy’s urologist apponitment. Yes, that’s right. Not the main clinic where they have built a room covered in monkeys and lemurs, I believe to [...]

Today marks two months since my father died. I miss him more than I can begin to express. Tonight I sat out on my mother’s gazebo and faced South from 5:35 until 6:00p.m. He collapsed at 5:46 p.m. on June 20th. So tonight, as I did on July 20, I sat out and faced the [...]

There is nothing quite like the luxury of a professional, full body, one hour massage. It is an indulgence I can rarely experience, but one which I treasure more that just about anything. This evening I found myself on a massage table after spending about a half hour in natural vapor caves. The initial stages [...]

I am wondering:
-why must Cassidy insist on playing “Jolly Old St. Nicholas” over and over again on the piano this afternoon.
-why, when Cass takes a break from the ivory keys, she and Loren are playing the World Cup in the living room.
-why Devon feels the need to remove every book from the book shelf.
-why would [...]

I sometimes wonder lately if I have perhaps stumbled into some sort of shit hole -a kind of Alice In Wonderland hole gone bad. There are times during the days when I simply have to stop and take a moment to right myself because the swirl of the shit storm is just too intense. There [...]