I wrote a post for my day gig that involved some resolutions for the next 365 days. Not included in the list are the obvious lose 25 pounds, keep my roots free of gray, be better to my mother sort for things. Also not included are a few hopes I just couldn’t share with the [...]

Sometime over the summer I knew I had to get away from my life, not in an immediate fight or flight sort of way but rather a sometime-in-the-near-future-so-as-to-save-my-sanity sort of way. As the snowy months approached I knew my time had come when the mere thought of the holidays drove me to scratching at my [...]

Many of my winter hours are spent at a ritzy childcare center at an even ritzier ski mountain. For a variety of reasons I return to this madness every winter even though the previous April I have sworn I will never again set foot near the place. Here it is once again December and I [...]

Last night I was so tired I kept bumping in to walls and corners as I got ready for bed. Cassidy was all tucked in to my bed and watching her peacefully read set off a surge of impatience in me, yes I know, great maternal instincts there. She had been particularly sassy all evening [...]

Seriously, what good comes from working five days? In a row? I am three into the five and very much dissatisfied with the whole experience. I have far better things to be doing than getting up at 5 a.m. and showering so as to look presentable to the world. Really, it is all silly and [...]

This had been the Week of the Bully hear at the Manor. First Cassidy was exposed to a bribe sort of situation on Monday. She is smitten with a boy named Irving, I am sold on his name alone because, really, how awful can a boy named Irving be? But it appears that young Sebastian, [...]

* Yesterday morning I woke up in more of a freak out because I realized that nobody else was intending to fix the lack of cards issue.
*This afternoon Loren and Cassidy took it upon themselves to squabble over anything and everything possible: she nagged him about his lack of table manners, he told her to [...]

Tonight I was in yoga class trying to achieve some sort of peace when it dawned on me that it is December. This Friday I have a gallery show/sale thingy for which I have sent out 600 invitations and told countless other people. But in yoga I realized I have yet to receive my order [...]