It just needs to be about me for the next few. I really do try to keep a sunny outlook on life and whatnot; I try to breathe in the good/peaceful and let go of the bad/yucky. Everyday, well at least most days, I set aside a few minutes to focus on happy thoughts and [...]

For the past couple of days I have been sick, the sort of sick where as you’re choking on the phlegm you barely have the energy to hack up, you wish somebody from the heavens above would have mercy and strike you down with a lightening bolt. To make matters worse it is my children’s [...]

I really needn’t explain myself. But. My chest hurts from coughing and my throat is rawer than raw. And this? Tee-hee. I couldn’t help it.

Devon and I have a secret little routine that we share about once a week. After I drop Cass off at middle school and take my turn with the high school car pool, Devon and I stop by the local coffee shop on our way to his preschool. I order a decaf vanilla latte and [...]

I have what can only be called a full on phobia about singing in public. The only living beings on the face of the earth who have ever heard me sing are my children. They don’t mind that I can’t carry a tune or remember a string of words to a particular song. They love [...]

A few weeks ago a I finished my book club book, Eat, Pray, Love. Not many books make me feel like changing my ways, Life of Pi was one, as was Faking It. Bizarre choices, I know. But Elizabeth Gilbert’s account of her divorce and finding her inner self struck a chord with me. I [...]

My brother to me, “Only two things come in aluminum foil: take-out and drugs.”
Sometimes I wonder how I made it this far in life with the tools I was given. Truly, it is a wonder.